This Topic has been set up to follow the Spring 2012 migration, and summer activities, of satellite tracked ospreys, excluding Rothes and Tore from Loch Garten, who are followed on this thread.
It replaces this earlier thread, Satellite Tracked Ospreys (non-LG) Aug 2011 - Feb 2012.
JSB : I do remember Tom but like yourself I have no idea what happened to him.
Wasn't Tom a long time ago? He was a French osprey that headed down to Spain (?) and had a long stopover. Then they stopped reporting about him.
Tiger Signature
Here they say Tom went to Portugal, which seems vaguely familiar.
"In France, the National Plan of restoration implemented by Meeddat and LPO, the IRD in collaboration with the Association Group Pandion MEEDDAT and the NFB also has an osprey named Tom. The osprey is a native of Orleans region and its monitoring has revealed its fishing sites, its range, the date of his departure, his migration route and the wintering area in Portugal."
Ref:
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Tom's 2006 autumn migration summarised on page 7.
balbuzard info
I am trying to find out if this initiative was ever followed up. So far without success,
jsb said: Tom's 2006 autumn migration summarised on page 7. balbuzard info I am trying to find out if this initiative was ever followed up. So far without success,
It was really peculiar. Tom was featured on a site that was both in French and English. It was alright until he got to the stopover site and then it all went quiet and I think the updates stopped. Then the website eventually disappeared. What happened to Tom I have no idea.
I think it was about the same time as the Finns tracked Pete.
I did find the final part of Tom's story once, but can't locate it now - maybe it was on a site that got deleted.
He never did go to Africa, but settled in Portugal, on the Tagus estuary. He stayed there until around the time of his first birthday, when the signals stopped; the team were't able to find out any more.
Alan thanks for the info on various projects; the Kawartha Lakes tracking is active, as the map has been updated in the last week. Working on the intro to the new thread.
Updates on Morven (from 17Aug) and Red8T, Rothiemurchus and Beatrice from 20 Aug here. Beatrice at her stop-over on France, but the other three still at "home" in Scotland on the dates given
I have set up the replacement thread - it's here