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The Tay
estuary is the Scottish stronghold of this charismatic
bird of
prey, and the sight of a huge female with its
characteristic V wing slow motion glide hanging over the
reeds is a sure sign of the good health
and sound
management of this, the largest reedbed in Britain.
In 2004, Steve Moyes and Harry Bell and colleagues in the Tay Ringing
Group, who had been studying the Tay marsh harriers since the 1980s,
joined with Roy Dennis of the Highland Foundation for Wildlife to fit a satellite
transmitter on one chick to find out more about the migration to
Africa. It was tracked to Senegal and The Gambia.
See 2004 migration. In 2006,
we fitted two young with satellite transmitters to carry out
further research but no further radios have been deployed.
See 2006
Migration.
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