After Tiger started the thread for tracking Rothes and Mallachie I thought that we could do with a thread for the tracking of ospreys fitted with transmitters by Roy Dennis. As the "summer" marches on it won't be long before the only way we can get our osprey fix is to follow their migrations.
This year we have the opportunity of following all three tagged birds from last year: Nimrod, Beatrice and Morven. It will be fascinating to find out if they will winter in exactly the same place as last year, and also whether they take the same route.
Added to that Roy has tagged two more adult males this year, Red/white 8T (an Abernethy bird) and Morven's other half (Logie's ex fella). I'm not certain whether Roy has any further transmitters or will attempt to catch any more adult males but, including Rothes and Mallachie, we will be able to follow at least 7 ospreys on their incredible journeys this autumn.
Posted a drawing of the mysterious track on this forum by mistake, which I have now deleted. Will re-post on other relevant forum. Sorry for confusion....
Unknown said: Great that Roy is having such a successful season with his tracked birds. I'm crossing my fingers that Rothy and Rothes will be the first juvenile ospreys to be tracked back to the UK one day.
Great that Roy is having such a successful season with his tracked birds. I'm crossing my fingers that Rothy and Rothes will be the first juvenile ospreys to be tracked back to the UK one day.
Hi Sandy,
Don't forget 06 (01) from Rutland - The Bird that hadn't read the text books on Juvenile Osprey behaviour!!!!
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Hi Vespa, good to hear from you. Yes, of all people, I should have remembered 06 (01)! ;-))
In my defence I did say tracked rather than carried a transmitter. The data from the old battery-powered radio transmitter was so sporadic that it's stretching it a bit to say it was tracked back to the UK. Certainly it is a world away from the detailed info we get from the GPS devices that both Rothy and Rothes are kitted out with.
I'd genuinely forgotten that 06 came back to the UK at the age of one. Now if there's one youngster who might just surprise us all and follow suit it is Rothes, although to be fair she has an awfully lot further to travel than 06 did.
Yes but 06 (01) wintered in Portugall. She did not go to Africa.
I doubt if people will ever forget 06 (01). She came back to Britain as a year old and bred as a two year old. Sadly her life was all too short.
The only juvenile European osprey , to my knowledge, that has been tracked successfully to Africa and back in a Finnish osprey called Mirja from 2002. See http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/english/zoology/satelliteospreys/2002/mirja.htm
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margobird said: Thanks Sue C for alerting me to update but truly sad news that only one one out of seven birds have survived for Rob Berregaard.
Thanks Sue C for alerting me to update but truly sad news that only one one out of seven birds have survived for Rob Berregaard.
That is so sad. It does tell us something about why the attrition rate in young ospreys is so great.
Hazel b said: Thanks Sue C for alerting me to update but truly sad news that only one one out of seven birds have survived for Rob Berregaard.
Unfortunately Tiger this is so true devasting that so few ospreys actually make it.
Margobird
Another sighting of an overwintering bird on Faune Aquitaine site:Wednesday, January 13th,2010Marais d'Orx (Casier Sud) / Labenne (40)1 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) [Frédéric Cazaban ] Detail : 1x adult
Update on Roy Dennis site:
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Latest update 15th January interesting move by Honey buzzard Vespa; Rana in Cameroon; Ospreys - Beatrice in Spain, Rothiemurchus and Red 8T in southern Senegal, Morven in Mauritania, Nimrod and Talisman in Guinea Bissau. Tom the golden eagle in Glen Geldie and Oran, Mull sea eagle, has a few days in Northern Ireland."
Unknown said: Update on Roy Dennis site: " Latest update 15th January interesting move by Honey buzzard Vespa; Rana in Cameroon; Ospreys - Beatrice in Spain, Rothiemurchus and Red 8T in southern Senegal, Morven in Mauritania, Nimrod and Talisman in Guinea Bissau. Tom the golden eagle in Glen Geldie and Oran, Mull sea eagle, has a few days in Northern Ireland."
Thanks Alan.