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 Post subject: Re: USA MIGRATION ~ 2011 - 2012
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:46 pm 
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Rob's last update for 2012

The last of our migrating birds (North Fork Bob) finally made it home to his winter hideout in Venezuela on November 28th, 59 days after he left Long Island. Like most males, he's never been in much of a hurry to get back to the wintering waters.

Despite the very benign hurricane season (at least for our Ospreys), during which we lost no birds crossing the Caribbean, we still lost 4 birds. Wrong-way Chip got blown off course and started hitchhiking on ships out in the Atlantic all of which were heading towards Europe! He survived a week, but unable to feed out in the open ocean, died at sea. Cutch died in a freak accident, impaled on a submerged snag as he dove for a fish in a pond down in Colombia. Jill and Thatch both disappeared for unknown reasons in Venezuela and Curacao, respectively.

Belle, our '10 juvenile from Martha's Vineyard is back on her wintering territory on the Rio Madeira at the southern fringe of the Amazonian rainforest. Sr. Bones (Nantucket) and North Fork Bob are both back on their wintering areas for the 3rd time-a record for our tagged birds. Art, our New Hampshire male tagged this spring, is on his wintering waters in southeastern Amazonia--a new area for our birds.

The two adults from the Westport River who were tagged with cell-tower transmitters are somewhere out of touch--not surprisingly. However one of them (Bridger) did amazingly enough "report in" from Bolivia. We'll hear from them again only in the spring.

From now until March, I'll update maps once a month or so and will only send out an update if something really interesting happens.

A nice recognition of my right-hand man on Martha's Vineyard, Dick Jennings, was recently published in the Martha's Vineyard times. Take a minute to check it out:


Maps, as usual:

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Thanks Jazzel - Good luck for the osprey spring migration :corkpop:

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