Sue C It is a real pity that there is not a website. If I remember rightly the Spanish population is a mixture of Finnish, German and Scottish birds. It would be real interesting to find out where the chicks might migrate to.
It is fascinating how the ospreys seem to have a nose for where the fish are!
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I recently read an article written by prof. Pertti Saurola (The Osprey Man in Finland) 'bout Finnish osps and he mentioned briefly these trans-location projects. Here is a (clumsy and awkward) summary
Spanish relocation Project got it’s first true victory in Summer 2009. Trans-located (as juvies) German male and Scottish female had three fledglings in Huelva. And in Cadiz one unringed pair had two fledglings. Eleven years ago there was very well planned translocation scheme in Portugal, but for some reason it didn’t start. Looks like that project is reappearing. If that Portuguese Project gets funding they will ask osprey juvies from Finland too. Last two years Spanish Project has got it’s birds from Germany and Scotland.
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Unknown said: I recently read an article written by prof. Pertti Saurola (The Osprey Man in Finland) 'bout Finnish osps and he mentioned briefly these trans-location projects. Here is a (clumsy and awkward) summary Spanish relocation Project got it’s first true victory in Summer 2009. Trans-located (as juvies) German male and Scottish female had three fledglings in Huelva. And in Cadiz one unringed pair had two fledglings. Eleven years ago there was very well planned translocation scheme in Portugal, but for some reason it didn’t start. Looks like that project is reappearing. If that Portuguese Project gets funding they will ask osprey juvies from Finland too. Last two years Spanish Project has got it’s birds from Germany and Scotland.
auntie thanks for the above info. It does seem that the magic of these birds is encouraging people to do more and more to protect them.
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Hazel b said: I know it in French but there are some stunning osprey pictures here. See http://balbuzard.over-blog.net/
I know it in French but there are some stunning osprey pictures here. See http://balbuzard.over-blog.net/
Lots of new pictures on this site.
Unknown said: Alerta Pescadora! http://www.alertapescadora.com/noticias.asp This is the website of an osprey conservation project run by FAPAS, the organisation responsible for nature protection in the Asturias region of northern Spain.
There are new reports on Alerta Pescadora! and the site of its parent organisation FAPAS, about a recent operation to ring an osprey which has spent this winter on the Ria del Eo, or Ribadeo, estuary which marks the western border of Asturias with Galicia.
As this osprey, now named Panchita, turned out to be a juvenile female who is likely to stay for at least another year, it has increased their hopes of getting ospreys to nest in the area again. They are planning to instal a number of nest platforms in the tall eucalyptus trees overlooking the estuary.
Good morning Sue C and thanks for the link re Spanish ospreys. More nest platforms could mean that some birds may choose to winter there.
http://www.fapas.es/notifapas/hoy/2011/20110402_nidos_pescadora.htm
Here is a link to a FAPAS bulletin about the artificial nest program, dated April 2011. In Spanish, but with some nice photos of nest one (of a hundred) being positioned - complete with plastic ospreys!
http://www.youtube.com/user/claraparda#p/u/1/6BNC3k2bH70
And a video, also in Spanish, here.
I've seen some brilliant news on the Dyfi Facebook page , though not from Dyfi itself.
An Italian contributor has posted the news that two osprey chicks have hatched in Italy for the first time in over 40 years. This is the fruit of the translocation project from Corsica to the Maremma Regional Park in Tuscany, which started in 2006 - go back to page 2 of this thread for information and films about this. The pair are said to be a male translocated from Corsica and an unringed female.
News report from "La Repubblica"
There are some beautiful sketches of the nest linked to Dyfi's Facebook page, but I can't set up a link from here for some reason - I think it's because you have to be signed in to FB to see them.
Sue C thanks for the news about osprey chicks in Italy, just wonderful.
Keith Not sure you are aware of this thread.