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Osprey Autumn Migrations 2008

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OSPREY SATELLITE TRACKING PROJECT 2008

Talisman Energy UK have helped the Foundation carry out osprey conservation, especially building and refurbishing nests, around the Moray Firth in recent seasons through its small grants fund. In 2007, Talisman Energy UK helped us start an exciting new migration tracking project with their funding assistance. This involved the use of new generation GPS satellite transmitters made by Microwave Telemetry. This project started in July 2007 -  and much exciting information was gained and the breeding female osprey from Moray, called Logie, after the local Logie Primary School became world famous and nearly an house-hold name, followed by thousands on our website and on the BBC Radio 4 Programme "World on the Move".  See also  Talisman Energy's own osprey website - www.talisman-ospreys.co.uk

 

This year, Talisman Energy UK have again supported our exciting project, which has allowed us to buy four more Microwave Telemetry GPS transmitters. We are most grateful to Mr. Nick Walker, Talisman Energy Vice-President in Aberdeen for this important support, and sincere thanks also to Jan Rusin, who got our project started and who has now moved to a new job from his previous post as Environmental Manager at Talisman Energy in Aberdeen.


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LOGIE

 Glen Moray

Male - not yet caught The Neighbour    -    Beatrice
Morven - the intruder
   

The New Transmitters are powered through solar panels and are built to last three years. Each hour, as long as the internal battery is charged, they take an accurate  GPS fix, as well as readings of direction and speed of flight, and the altitude. This will allow us to learn much more about their lives before they migrate for Africa; it should reveal their migrations and stop-overs in great detail, give us much more information about their lives in Africa, and most interestingly inform us of their migrations back to Scotland in the Spring. We will try to bring you as much information on the journeys as possible.

It will build on the information we gathered during previous satellite tracking studies - we are particularly interested in the first migrations of the juveniles as we have a theory that Scottish young have an inherited migration heading, from their Scandinavian ancestors, which takes some of them SSW. This is a good direction for migration from Sweden to Spain, but not so good from Scotland, because of hazardous sea crossings and possible losses in the Atlantic Ocean. We also want to build on knowledge of wintering quarters and the opportunities to link the conservation of ospreys between Europe and West Africa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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