tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43037416370623413602024-02-07T23:07:12.924-05:00Swallow-tailed Kite MigrationA TEN THOUSAND MILE ODYSSEYAmanda Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05157061206397538877noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-60290680246664973782020-12-10T15:56:00.002-05:002020-12-10T15:56:54.520-05:00Avian Research and Conservation Institute (ARCI) has a new website!
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Zt8t14DiPXOy_lYQXdywPczuVDKNym4ymZIa935hdrv-y7s5rb-wmEYdk5aUDkaaW7bGyI6Mal532RefKjwqOIjZFTuvLNL0u1KyHPUyRLlZUOTnKy4OYrRR2Bfbfw73uyr1wcSREmY/s1017/WiredwilsonDianeGannon2.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="1017" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Zt8t14DiPXOy_lYQXdywPczuVDKNym4ymZIa935hdrv-y7s5rb-wmEYdk5aUDkaaW7bGyI6Mal532RefKjwqOIjZFTuvLNL0u1KyHPUyRLlZUOTnKy4OYrRR2Bfbfw73uyr1wcSREmY/s600/WiredwilsonDianeGannon2.jpg" width="600" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swallow-tailed Kite with a GPS/GSM-transmitter by D. Gannon, 2020<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We've Moved! As of December 2020, ARCI's Swallow-tailed Kite Migration Odyssey blog has moved to our new website.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.arcinst.org/blog/">https://www.arcinst.org/blog/</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">All future content will be published there and this site will remain active with the archived blogs.
We enjoy sharing the results and stories of our GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites with you. Thank you for following along! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The ARCI team, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="www.arcinst.org">www.arcinst.org</a></span></p>ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-75423340688537763702020-10-15T15:19:00.000-04:002020-10-15T15:19:17.081-04:00GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites check in from South America<p class="MsoNormal">ARCI<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is currently
tracking 11 Swallow-tailed Kites with GPS transmitters. One male, Ponchitolawa,
was tagged in Louisiana by our colleague, Dr. Jennifer Coulson of Orleans
Audubon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since the
beginning of September, these Swallow-tailed Kites have been in and out of cell
service as they cross the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Basin, therefore, the
data uploads have been spotty. Some birds have not checked in for a while, so our
fingers are crossed until they are “out of the woods” and upload their location
data again.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbJj3MleKSXiIkq3JFsoERjR7R7pWDap824-130T1ihFWfblEpDMmtgvH4oO_wqVZgvc0jt5MsFG6473pFISM1ckWIBOFmIiT9AG8Cx3vGpURdOP5McZlCtFRdojz3ZlpbxRa7g-5hv2o/s6000/IMG_4391.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbJj3MleKSXiIkq3JFsoERjR7R7pWDap824-130T1ihFWfblEpDMmtgvH4oO_wqVZgvc0jt5MsFG6473pFISM1ckWIBOFmIiT9AG8Cx3vGpURdOP5McZlCtFRdojz3ZlpbxRa7g-5hv2o/w640-h426/IMG_4391.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Photo Credit: A. Kent.<br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Five of the kites
are on or near their wintering grounds in Brazil. PBC-ERM male is the farthest
south in Mato Grosso, Brazil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four
kites, Ponchitolawa, Pritchard, Apopka, and Suwannee are in the State of
Rondônia, Brazil.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We recently
received data from Sarasota who had been out of cell service in the Peruvian
rainforest since early September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
now in the State of Acre, Brazil.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We await
data from four kites that last uploaded their data in Colombia (Jeaga 2, Sanibel
South, and Sawgrass) or Panama (Jeaga 1).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlNOrUOk5h3iDVSZnHQLnDsjNdIN-PH1fHc8mOihSgX_smY-Ty_BU1V3CH7wd9RThNvdLocT4qlEFPoEhiHVKguIA-Ngt6d_GK6ThyE5vABU-_U4Y0s2ZxhVVo50uAm_TDmY3pQ8X81A/s767/STKI-20201014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="767" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXlNOrUOk5h3iDVSZnHQLnDsjNdIN-PH1fHc8mOihSgX_smY-Ty_BU1V3CH7wd9RThNvdLocT4qlEFPoEhiHVKguIA-Ngt6d_GK6ThyE5vABU-_U4Y0s2ZxhVVo50uAm_TDmY3pQ8X81A/w640-h584/STKI-20201014.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not pictured
is Jeaga 3, a kite that last uploaded data 11 miles from the Texas coast in the
Gulf of Mexico. We have grown less optimistic that we will receive a signal
from her. Migration is a risky endeavor for birds, especially those crossing
large expanses of water. However, it appears that this year’s southbound
crossing of the Gulf of Mexico was more dangerous than normal for many of these
tracked Swallow-tailed Kites due to unfavorable winds. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As
always, we are very grateful to all the organizations and individuals who make
ARCI’s long-term studies of Swallow-tailed Kites possible. Your support helps
us understand how these beautiful birds complete their incredible journeys, their
use of stopover and wintering areas, and how their movements change over time. Contributors
supporting this year’s kites include:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><a href="https://cbop.audubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Audubon Center for Birds of Prey</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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Conservancy</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.halifaxriveras.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Halifax River Audubon</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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Refuge</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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</span><a href="https://jjaudubon.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Orleans Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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Department of Environmental Resources Management</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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</span><a href="http://www.san-capaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.sccf.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation SCCF</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sarasota Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://seminoleaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Seminole Audubon Society</span></a><u><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></u></p>
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</span><a href="https://www.stpeteaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">St. Petersburg Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.sunrisewildlife.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sunrise Wildlife Rehabilitation</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://arc4raptors.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Avian Reconditioning Center for
Birds of Prey</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.veniceaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Venice Area Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-79015771933888422202020-09-13T21:26:00.002-04:002020-09-13T21:26:53.033-04:00Swallow-tailed Kites across the Andes Mountains!<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ARCI is
tracking 11 Swallow-tailed Kites with GPS transmitters. One male, Ponchitolawa,
was tagged in Louisiana by Dr. Jennifer Coulson of Orleans Audubon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a class="msocomanchor" href="#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" name="_msoanchor_1"></a><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WAY in the lead on southbound
migration is Pritchard, a male Swallow-tailed Kite from Palmetto Bluff, South
Carolina. He is already through the Amazon basin and now in Rondônia, Brazil.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Having made
a safe mountain crossing over the Andes, Sawgrass and Suwannee are 1,200 miles
behind Pritchard in agricultural areas east of the Andes in <span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Gina%20Kent" datetime="2020-09-13T21:11"></del></span><span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Gina%20Kent" datetime="2020-09-13T21:11"></ins></span>Colombia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Three
kites are in the ranks to cross the Andes mountains soon: Jeaga 2, Ponchitolawa
and Sarasota.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not far behind them, three
more birds are cruising through the Darien of Panama: PBC-ERM male, Apopka, and
Sanibel South.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACQNsAoShX-CDH3vR4-2Q-S8qcbaiK9AvpHyPSAu2yRp7PWFYzM0D4KTAnX14ox3Vs_0CfBiC5LQ1w0cZPZmQ5kYWF9vYGvlOH77Sv8qhEwuABWOccmU3dfoWi405PsjfuDzrhHtqCvo/s767/STKI-20200908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="767" height="573" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACQNsAoShX-CDH3vR4-2Q-S8qcbaiK9AvpHyPSAu2yRp7PWFYzM0D4KTAnX14ox3Vs_0CfBiC5LQ1w0cZPZmQ5kYWF9vYGvlOH77Sv8qhEwuABWOccmU3dfoWi405PsjfuDzrhHtqCvo/w625-h573/STKI-20200908.jpg" width="625" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Trailing
400 miles back, Jeaga 1 moves through the east coast of Nicaragua after weeks
of stopover behavior in southern Belize.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not pictured
is our missing kite, Jeaga 3, last reporting 11 miles from the Texas coast in the
Gulf of Mexico. We have grown less optimistic that we will receive a signal
from her. Migration is a risky endeavor for birds, especially those crossing
large expanses of water. However, it appears that this year’s southbound
crossing of the Gulf of Mexico was extra dangerous for many of our tracked
Swallow-tailed <a style="mso-comment-date: 20200913T2013; mso-comment-reference: AK_2;">Kites</a></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a class="msocomanchor" href="#_msocom_2" id="_anchor_2" name="_msoanchor_2"></a><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> due to unfavorable winds. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We
wish all Swallow-tailed Kites a safe journey through the high, cold, Andes
Mountains so they can get to the prey-rich regions of the Amazon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As
always, we are very grateful to all the organizations and individuals who make
ARCI’s long-term studies of Swallow-tailed Kites possible. Your support helps
us understand how these beautiful birds complete their incredible journeys. Contributors <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Gina%20Kent" datetime="2020-09-13T21:14"></ins></span>supporting this year’s kites include<span class="msoDel"><del cite="mailto:Adam%20Kent" datetime="2020-09-13T20:36">s</del></span>:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><a href="https://cbop.audubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Audubon Center for Birds of Prey</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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of Wildlife, Inc.</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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Conservancy</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.halifaxriveras.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Halifax River Audubon</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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</span><a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/lower_suwannee/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Lower Suwannee National Wildlife
Refuge</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.audubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">National Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://oklawaha-valley-audubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Oklawaha Valley Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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</span><a href="https://jjaudubon.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Orleans Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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Department of Environmental Resources Management</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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</span><a href="http://peaceriveraudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Peace River Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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</span><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sarasota Audubon Society</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://seminoleaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Seminole Audubon Society</span></a><u><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></u></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ponchitolowa,
a GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite tagged in Louisiana by Dr. Jennifer Coulson,
made a fantastic migration from Louisiana across the Gulf of Mexico to </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Veracruz, Mexico </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ahead of the disastrous hurricanes
that came ashore from the northern Gulf shore. Ponchitolowa continued safely through
Mexico and is now moving through southern Belize. We hope our friends and
supporters there are doing as well as can be hoped for in the wake of Hurricane
Laura.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Speaking of
being safe, our “missing” Swallow-tailed Kite, Jeaga 3 remains missing, having
last reported about 11 miles off of the western Gulf coast of Mexico. We have
grown less optimistic that we will ever again receive a signal from her. Migration
is always difficult and often very risky for all birds, especially those
crossing large expanses of water. However, it appears that this year’s southbound
crossing of the Gulf of Mexico was extra dangerous for many of our tracked
Swallow-tailed Kites. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJmFkDNLATTKV_PE8QIiMoE6w06blWubGXeGQeCOqdXa0mkUzadX8eoyfkRDHEVYYjrNsZs3BR7OFFUCj6CrEsuysQWWJCVXCoqPDuG4w5gZNk1a4Ns-v-0sH2vGj4T8J22gWO8rwg3U/s767/STKI-20200828.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="767" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJmFkDNLATTKV_PE8QIiMoE6w06blWubGXeGQeCOqdXa0mkUzadX8eoyfkRDHEVYYjrNsZs3BR7OFFUCj6CrEsuysQWWJCVXCoqPDuG4w5gZNk1a4Ns-v-0sH2vGj4T8J22gWO8rwg3U/w625-h570/STKI-20200828.jpg" width="625" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sarasota has
slowed down just south of Veracruz Mexico, probably enjoying good opportunities
to feed on the local insects in the company of many other kites, including
swallow-tails and Mississippi Kites</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jeaga 1 is still spending her stop-over
time ranging throughout the Toledo District of Belize.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jeaga 2 and Sanibel South continue to
make steady southbound progress and have just crossed the Honduras/Nicaragua
border.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sawgrass
from Pinellas County, Florida, had an easy trip across the Gulf of Mexico,
using western Cuba for a one-night stopover before passing through the state of
Quintana Roo, Mexico, and continuing on into Panama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Also in
Panama, just ahead of Sawgrass, are Apopka, Pritchard, and PBC-ERM male. It
looks like their next challenge will be aerially traversing the high pass
through the Andes Mountains in Colombia that has been used by most of the
Swallow-tailed Kites we have tracked.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well in the
lead of all these birds is Suwannee, who has already crossed the Andes and is
working his way southeastward through Colombia’s portion of the vast Amazon
Basin!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As
always, we are very grateful to all the organizations and individuals who have
made ARCI’s long-term studies of Swallow-tailed Kites possible, thus helping us
understand how these amazing birds need our help. The ever-growing list of
current contributors includes:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><a href="https://cbop.audubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Audubon Center for Birds of Prey</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.biographic.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">bioGraphic</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-7810079526625543552020-08-24T21:44:00.001-04:002020-08-24T21:52:19.398-04:00Good news and pending news on southbound Swallow-tailed Kite migration. <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Since we
last wrote, we watched three GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites head out over the
Gulf of Mexico. So far, only two of them, Jeaga 1 and Sarasota, have made it
safely to a shoreline. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jeaga 1, last over open ocean south of
the Cayman Islands, made landfall south of Placencia, Belize, and has been spending
her stop-over time ranging throughout the Toledo District of Belize.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sarasota was
pushed westward by tailwinds into the central Gulf but thankfully </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">made landfall
just north of Tampico, Mexico and continued to follow the Gulf coast south
where he’s taking his time just south of the famous Veracruz hawk-watch
location.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The good
news for Jeaga 3 is that her GSM-GPS tracking unit produced excellent movement data
after leaving Cuba. Unfortunately, 2 days later, she was still out over the
Gulf of Mexico. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Winds had derailed
her southwestward flight to the Yucatan Peninsula, pushing her westward instead
along a track very similar to those of Sanibel South and Sarasota. Two days
after leaving Cuba, within 7 miles of the Mexican coastline just north of
Tampico, Jeaga 3’s on-board “cell phone” connected with a land-based tower and
uploaded her accumulated GPS data. At this point, she already had turned north,
then northeast, and eventually back to the east, thus heading back out over the
open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. She had been so close to land, but was now
flying the WRONG way!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg877chGnR-d3Rnq5HtVA2_MfEMwIu8SF0cgYqwLO_bBXDnWJnXjpcUeGF9GToKFuW3IUh8uOY1GK0gyEnWXmLNd_gs88Qi9ZTZcyvi4G_yzIUbETWaTl6G9DOO-ZwVRIeZtDH8sM3xsu8/s767/STKI-20200815.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="767" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg877chGnR-d3Rnq5HtVA2_MfEMwIu8SF0cgYqwLO_bBXDnWJnXjpcUeGF9GToKFuW3IUh8uOY1GK0gyEnWXmLNd_gs88Qi9ZTZcyvi4G_yzIUbETWaTl6G9DOO-ZwVRIeZtDH8sM3xsu8/s640/STKI-20200815.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It
might be helpful here to review some details about the solar-powered GSM/GPS
transmitters these Swallow-tailed Kites are carrying. The GPS component of
these solar-powered tracking devices are programmed to collect a highly
accurate location fix (latitude x longitude accurate with 10 to 15 meters)
every hour. This acquisition process, dependent on satellite communications
just like any earth-bound GPS receiver (including the one that plots a moving
map on your phone as you drive down the road), runs continuously regardless of
where the bird is, even when far from a cell-phone tower. Months-worth of GPS
fixes can be stored onboard. However, because the transmitter component of
these devices communicates with international cellular phone networks, it is
unable to upload the stored GPS data until the bird happens to fly within
cell-tower range. Therefore, we may go for long periods not “hearing” from
birds as they migrate over ocean and through remote areas. If something goes
wrong during these times and the data-stream ceases, we have no way of knowing
what happened. Some of the Swallow-tailed Kites we have tagged remain beyond
tracking range for their entire wintering period, and we must wait in
anticipation for their radios to resume transmission once they have begun
migrating northward. Fortunately, once this happens, we receive all of the GPS
fixes that have been received and stored while the transmitter has been silent.
We are still hopeful that Jeaga 3 has made it to land, just beyond cell-tower
range, and may soon begin uploading her stored GPS locations.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXYao_bhaI9W3o77W6VfqZ3GHBqO7igFtuqDqgG_5XPKJhHlmcIpr7f9_VB-o7jcMeC-uhNhxppha4pudKC-yfTtJQBz2fnEdd-47jpsbP1vj2vUZDlN8ajCHKNHZzrKtxnvPdPpNmd9s/s6000/IMG_3220.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXYao_bhaI9W3o77W6VfqZ3GHBqO7igFtuqDqgG_5XPKJhHlmcIpr7f9_VB-o7jcMeC-uhNhxppha4pudKC-yfTtJQBz2fnEdd-47jpsbP1vj2vUZDlN8ajCHKNHZzrKtxnvPdPpNmd9s/s640/IMG_3220.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As of August
15th, 2020, all but two of the 11 GPS-tagged Swallow-tailed Kites have left the
U.S.A.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Ponchitolawa,
tagged by colleague Dr. Jennifer Coulson of Orleans Audubon, still resides on
the Pearl River in Louisiana, still fueling up for the migration ahead.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sawgrass
from Pinellas County, Florida, is now on the southern tip of Florida, about to
cross the Gulf of Mexico.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Once Apopka
was ready to start southward from his St. Johns River pre-migration location</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, he spent a night in the <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black;">Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, flew
over the Florida Keys the next day, then crossed the Straits of Florida to Cuba.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a night in near Havana, he headed due
south, skipping Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula altogether and making it all the way
to Honduras! He must have well-prepared for this ~570-mile over-water flight
because he kept moving south once over land.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sanibel
South made her way to the Gulf coast of Mexico and is following the path taken
by Sarasota, now 400 miles farther south.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Suwannee and
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PBC-ERM male experienced what we would
consider an ideal safe migration with quick flights to western Cuba, one night
on Cuba, and west over water from the Guanahacabibes Peninsula the next day. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a two-hour lead, Suwannee spent a night
south of Tulum, Mexico, while PBC-ERM had made it to the island of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cozumel, Mexico for the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither wasted time once on land. PBC-ERM
male is in Guatemala, and Suwannee is 300 miles ahead in Nicaragua.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">After a
night in Highlands County, Florida, Prichard crossed the Gulf of Mexico
directly to the Yucatan Peninsula on 9 August, the fastest GPS track across
open ocean for any of this year’s migrating kites.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sending good
vibes to our missing Jeaga 3, hoping that she is safe on land. Check back with
us next week and we’ll bring you up to date.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As
always, we are grateful to all the organizations and individuals who have made
ARCI’s long-term studies of Swallow-tailed Kites possible, thus helping us
understand how these amazing birds need our help. The ever-growing list of
current contributors includes:</span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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</span><a href="https://www.biographic.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">bioGraphic</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="http://caloosabirdclub.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Caloosa Bird Club</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.clearwateraudubonsociety.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Clearwater Audubon Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.crowclinic.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">CROW - Clinic for the Rehabilitation
of Wildlife, Inc.</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/florida_panther/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Florida Panther National Wildlife
Refuge</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="http://palmettobluffconservancy-friends.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Friends of Palmetto Bluff
Conservancy</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
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</span><a href="https://oklawaha-valley-audubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Oklawaha Valley Audubon Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.orangeaudubonfl.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Orange Audubon Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://jjaudubon.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Orleans Audubon Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="http://discover.pbcgov.org/erm/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Palm Beach County
Department of Environmental Resources Management</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.palmbeachzoo.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.palmettobluff.com/about/conservancy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Palmetto Bluff Conservancy</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="http://peaceriveraudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Peace River Audubon Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.san-capaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">
</span><a href="http://www.sccf.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation SCCF</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">
</span><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sarasota Audubon Society</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">
</span><a href="https://www.alligatorfarm.com/"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Seminole Audubon Society</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.alligatorfarm.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.stpeteaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">St. Petersburg Audubon Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.sunrisewildlife.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sunrise Wildlife Rehabilitation</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://arc4raptors.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Avian Reconditioning Center for
Birds of Prey</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.veniceaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Venice Area Audubon Society</span></a><span face="" style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.westvolusiaaudubon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2f5496; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">West Volusia Audubon</span></a></div>
ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-78563100449023845522020-08-19T12:48:00.003-04:002020-08-20T13:06:05.834-04:00Wow! Swallow-tailed Kites over the Gulf and through Cuba and…!<p class="MsoNormal">As of August 7<sup>th</sup> 2020, our GPS-tagged
Swallow-tailed Kites have made leaps and bounds on their migration. Recall that
Hurricane Isaias moved up the Atlantic coast, and the winds and pressure
systems surely encouraged many Swallow-tailed Kites to take advantage of the
tailwinds. All but two of the 11 tracked kites have moved south.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHwtUJ_uDHGWBl37mNtF3NWE1IXE7xl97hxjy-L2j4QlotWbJLhdz3uDkOEaR8Z9-MbVWdLyXpcvD2CsyjIjRxlmjubcKlW4RaoQEU0ZL9qSWk75CwOTNiopzjsMdB3VLRz4iVYBILfrM/s767/STKI-20200807.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="767" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHwtUJ_uDHGWBl37mNtF3NWE1IXE7xl97hxjy-L2j4QlotWbJLhdz3uDkOEaR8Z9-MbVWdLyXpcvD2CsyjIjRxlmjubcKlW4RaoQEU0ZL9qSWk75CwOTNiopzjsMdB3VLRz4iVYBILfrM/s640/STKI-20200807.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ponchitolawa, tagged by colleague Dr. Jennifer Coulson of
Orleans Audubon, is still foraging around the Pearl River in Louisiana, and
Apopka is still along the southern reaches of the St. Johns River, in Brevard,
County Florida.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sawgrass from Pinellas County, Florida, has left the
Savannah River near Augusta, Georgia and is now on the Altamaha River near Abbeville,
Georgia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pritchard also left the Savannah River, spent a night south
of Jacksonville, Florida, and is now in Highlands County, Florida.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After staying aloft for nearly five days over the Gulf of
Mexico, Sanibel South has been moving slowly around Dewitt County, Texas. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Suwannee had spent a night in Florida’s Green Swamp, another
in Picayune Strand State Forest in Collier County, Florida, and continues moving
southward through the Everglades. We assume he will be crossing the Gulf of
Mexico any time now. PBC-ERM Male is lingering on the southern tip of Florida’s
Cape Sable, waiting to cross the Yucatan Channel.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Four kites have made the “leap” from south Florida!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeaga 2, followed just a day later by Jeaga
1, crossed south to Cuba spending two and three nights, respectively, before making
quite different departures from the Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jeaga 2 left for the Yucatan from western-most Cuba and made good time
to an arrival just south of Cancun, Mexico. Jeaga 1 departed from the
south-central Cuban coast heading southwest, crossed the Cayman Islands, and is
on course over the Caribbean to make landfall between Belize and Honduras soon,
if the wind doesn’t switch directions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jeaga 3 made a fast trip through south Florida and caught up
with Sarasota on Cape Sable, Florida. They both left the southern tip of
Florida within hours of each other, but their paths have been distinctly
different. Jeaga 3 flew to western Cuba and spent one night on the
Guanahacabibes Peninsula before departing for Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winds derailed a direct flight to the Yucatan,
so, just like Sanibel South, Jeaga 3 was pushed westward into the central Gulf
of Mexico. Meanwhile, Sarasota crossed the Florida Keys towards the Yucatan
Peninsula, but, just like Sanibel South and Jeaga 3, was pushed westward by
tailwinds into the central Gulf.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvftuOmjXoe4aQzItxUO4BEMlaU69fCQaEbKp2mpx4HBRChcR9Bgy5DoUf2oeoCQZzs3Sidgc1z9RUyy5_QOv73nzk7_9i4ZpkCe97wp3lbElCJtfoeG_ea5tVUFUS442PKslQSOc1fM/s800/MarvinSmith1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvftuOmjXoe4aQzItxUO4BEMlaU69fCQaEbKp2mpx4HBRChcR9Bgy5DoUf2oeoCQZzs3Sidgc1z9RUyy5_QOv73nzk7_9i4ZpkCe97wp3lbElCJtfoeG_ea5tVUFUS442PKslQSOc1fM/s640/MarvinSmith1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Juvenile Swallow-tailed Kite photo by Marvin Smith</td></tr></tbody></table>All this means three GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites are now
over open ocean, at the mercy of winds in this region of volatile weather!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Sanibel South showed us, a kite can
survive up to 5 days over water without food and rest, but the average maximum
time over water has been three days.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you’ve been following along with ARCI’s Swallow-tailed
Kite migration blogs over the years, you have witnessed how these birds are
putting a lot on the line as they make the attempt to cross at least 400 miles
of ocean to reach the Yucatan Peninsula. However, they need the support of
tailwinds and, as we all have learned, anything can happen.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fingers crossed for all Swallow-tailed Kites to make it safe
to land. More soon!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As always, we are
grateful to all of the organizations and individuals who have made ARCI’s
long-term studies of Swallow-tailed Kites possible, thus helping us understand
how these amazing birds need our help. The ever-growing list of current
contributors includes:</span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://cbop.audubon.org/" target="_blank">Audubon Center for Birds of Prey</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.biographic.com/" target="_blank">bioGraphic</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://caloosabirdclub.org/" target="_blank">Caloosa
Bird Club</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.clearwateraudubonsociety.org/" target="_blank">Clearwater
Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.crowclinic.org/" target="_blank">CROW -
Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc.</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/florida_panther/" target="_blank">Florida
Panther National Wildlife Refuge</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://palmettobluffconservancy-friends.org/" target="_blank">Friends
of Palmetto Bluff Conservancy</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.carltonreserve.org/" target="_blank">Friends
of the Carlton Reserve</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.floridapanther.org/" target="_blank">Friends
of the Florida Panther Refuge</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.friendsofrefuges.org/" target="_blank">Friends
of the Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.halifaxriveras.org/" target="_blank">Halifax
River Audubon</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.jacksonvillezoo.org/" target="_blank">Jacksonville
Zoo and Gardens</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/lower_suwannee/" target="_blank">Lower
Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.audubon.org/" target="_blank">National
Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://oklawaha-valley-audubon.org/" target="_blank">Oklawaha
Valley Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.orangeaudubonfl.org/" target="_blank">Orange
Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://jjaudubon.net/" target="_blank">Orleans Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://discover.pbcgov.org/erm/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.palmbeachzoo.org/" target="_blank">Palm
Beach Zoo and Conservation Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.palmettobluff.com/about/conservancy" target="_blank">Palmetto
Bluff Conservancy</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://peaceriveraudubon.org/" target="_blank">Peace
River Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.san-capaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Sanibel-Captiva
Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.sccf.org/" target="_blank">Sanibel-Captiva Conservation
Foundation SCCF</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Sarasota
Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><a href="https://seminoleaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Seminole
Audubon Society</a><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.alligatorfarm.com/" target="_blank">St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://www.stpeteaudubon.org/" target="_blank">St.
Petersburg Audubon Society</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://www.sunrisewildlife.org/" target="_blank">Sunrise
Wildlife Rehabilitation</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://arc4raptors.org/" target="_blank">The Avian
Reconditioning Center for Birds of Prey</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://www.veniceaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Venice
Area Audubon Society</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://www.westvolusiaaudubon.org/" target="_blank">West
Volusia Audubon</a></span></span></span></div>
ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-79781698461375099582020-08-14T11:57:00.002-04:002020-08-14T17:08:24.277-04:00And so it begins… Swallow-tailed Kites migrate south 2020 style.<p><span style="font-size: medium;">If Sanibel South’s migration didn't produce enough nail-biting anticipation…we’ve got some stories for you soon! To set the stage we are taking the timeline and maps back to last week.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />From north to south: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sawgrass from Pinellas County, FL returned for the 4th year in a row to favorite pre-migratory foraging aggregations around the Savannah River south of Augusta Georgia. This is 375 miles north of her breeding area. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhhYvHcFvst_m1uT-vf2d39CHLAI2PgmHtQ89dvz60xpuEDRDKh_9hsx8V05ZBml4sZNcmepTnxPNe58W-JzhFsIQ3BBKyworUZ9Nk6VPt4IQOMT2C61j3aryZkSM_iLiWPqBPkRIN3Ww/s767/STKI-20200802.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="767" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhhYvHcFvst_m1uT-vf2d39CHLAI2PgmHtQ89dvz60xpuEDRDKh_9hsx8V05ZBml4sZNcmepTnxPNe58W-JzhFsIQ3BBKyworUZ9Nk6VPt4IQOMT2C61j3aryZkSM_iLiWPqBPkRIN3Ww/s640/STKI-20200802.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Pritchard is also on the Savannah River at the National Wildlife Refuge, which is 10 miles from Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina where he spent the summer.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Ponchitolawa, tagged by colleague, Dr. Jennifer Coulson of Orleans Audubon, is foraging around the Pearl River in Louisiana.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Sanibel South is taking time to regroup in SE Texas after five days over open ocean flying. See her extreme migration <a href="http://www.swallow-tailedkites.org/2020/08/saved-by-bugs-sanibel-south-makes.html" target="_blank">here</a> in our previous blog.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Suwannee is roosting within the Lower Suwannee NWR and feeding over adjacent farmlands west of Chiefland, FL.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Jeaga 3 has been enjoying the upper St. Johns River and joining hundreds of other Swallow-tailed Kites in a foraging aggregation at the Lake Apopka North Shore Restoration Area. This is a historically known hot spot for pre-migratory kites. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Apopka is along the southern reached of the St. Johns River in Brevard County Florida.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Three kites, Jeaga 1, Jeaga 2, and PBC-ERM male are all together in Palm Beach County on ERM lands. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The Sarasota kite has just started to make his way south, </span>following the coastline of the western Gulf.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />A lot is at stake for these birds to make the “leap” over open ocean to reach the Yucatan Peninsula. They need the support of tailwinds, and with at least 400 miles to cross, anything can happen - as we soon shall see.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />More soon!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />As always, we are grateful to all of the organizations and individuals who have made ARCI’s long-term studies of Swallow-tailed Kites possible, thus helping us understand how these amazing birds need our help. The ever-growing list of current contributors includes:<br /><br />Audubon Center for Birds of Prey<br />bioGraphic<br />Caloosa Bird Club<br />Clearwater Audubon Society<br />CROW - Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc.<br />Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge<br />Friends of Palmetto Bluff Conservancy<br />Friends of the Carlton Reserve<br />Friends of the Florida Panther Refuge<br />Friends of the Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges<br />Halifax River Audubon<br />Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens<br />Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge<br />National Audubon Society<br />Oklawaha Valley Audubon Society<br />Orange Audubon Society<br />Orleans Audubon Society<br />Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management<br />Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society<br />Palmetto Bluff Conservancy<br />Peace River Audubon Society<br />Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society<br />Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation SCCF<br />Sarasota Audubon Society<br />Seminole Audubon Society<br />St. Petersburg Audubon Society<br />Sunrise Wildlife Rehabilitation<br />The Avian Reconditioning Center for Birds of Prey<br />Venice Area Audubon Society<br />West Volusia Audubon<br /></span><br /></p>ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-30207460965111675612020-08-10T05:59:00.001-04:002020-08-10T05:59:37.574-04:00Saved by the bugs? Sanibel South makes the longest over-water journey recorded!<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soon after we introduced you to
Sanibel South in our last blog, she became the first of our tracked
Swallow-tailed Kites to leave Florida for the winter. In fact, the start of her
southbound migration has become one of the most exciting we have seen since our
studies of Swallow-tailed Kite long-distance migration began in 1996. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As you may recall, Sanibel South
started her southbound journey by first flying up to north-central Florida (Alachua
and Gilchrist counties), where she joined daily foraging flocks of kites, which
sometimes numbered in the hundreds, to feast on insects for a month. This
strategy was soon to pay off as Sanibel South’s attempt to cross the Gulf of
Mexico from southern Florida to the Yucatan Peninsula became one for the record
books. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXNgph4OIw1kNF9dXh9HymprO8yuOWS-RF0hYAxWruff8YF4ZfnxpM4cSXKdNMt4NBz6peIKr7HVzj80jKW_UY1wmwL2OuzWA6ElA88cKXsNZL3mVN1-lAHoYdt5gM0RhY95p2ugpae8E/s6000/IMG_2911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXNgph4OIw1kNF9dXh9HymprO8yuOWS-RF0hYAxWruff8YF4ZfnxpM4cSXKdNMt4NBz6peIKr7HVzj80jKW_UY1wmwL2OuzWA6ElA88cKXsNZL3mVN1-lAHoYdt5gM0RhY95p2ugpae8E/s640/IMG_2911.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swallow-tailed Kite foraging in Alachua County, Florida. Photo by Adam Kent<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Swallow-tailed kites are truly
creatures of the wind. Typically, the eastern portion of the U. S. population,
i.e., the ~65-70% that nest in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, prepares for
southbound migration by moving into position in southern Florida, where they feed
in flocks on flying insects by day and roost communally at night. As
individuals achieve the body condition needed for their impending journey, they
stage along the southwestern coast of Florida (seaward of Big Cypress Swamp and
the Everglades) while awaiting favorable tailwinds that will help carry them across
450 to 600 miles of the Gulf of Mexico. As you can imagine, crossing such a
vast expanse of open ocean is dangerous for any bird, but especially for a
large soaring species that, like most raptors, relies mainly on upwardly rising
thermals generated by heated land masses to stay aloft. Over-water wind
direction and speed are critically important to migrating Swallow-tailed Kites
because, unlike migrating songbirds and seabirds, they are not built to sustain
self-powered flight for extended periods. To complicate matters further,
weather patterns over the Gulf of Mexico are exceptionally volatile. A favorable
wind on the tail of a kite heading out to sea can become a deadly headwind
within a few hours or less, leaving a kite at the mercy of aerial currents that
will keep places to rest, eat, or drink beyond their reach for several days. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitgQAQMeD2j6sN1z5_jAgQykrcV58tBEq7S8HMVLZdn9z5rEEDCm305o900YGh2fe1IolbbYfPJ4n7iwFwYXhAQ-b97YbY-UbXS-ni-R3IaJ0ViReD0613UmI5uyE_wgkNBiXqaIm48dw/s996/windsEast.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="996" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitgQAQMeD2j6sN1z5_jAgQykrcV58tBEq7S8HMVLZdn9z5rEEDCm305o900YGh2fe1IolbbYfPJ4n7iwFwYXhAQ-b97YbY-UbXS-ni-R3IaJ0ViReD0613UmI5uyE_wgkNBiXqaIm48dw/s640/windsEast.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winds across the Gulf of Mexico. Maps by https://earth.nullschool.net/<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>From our long-term research, we know
that, despite their astounding aeronautical prowess over the sun-soaked
southern landscape, none of the Swallow-tailed Kites we have tracked survived
over the Gulf of Mexico for more than 3 to 4 days and nights. Remember that the
thermals that support the Swallow-tailed Kites’ endlessly energy-efficient
soaring over land cannot be as frequent or powerful over the ocean. As we
monitor the tagged kites during these dangerous times, seeing prolonged downwind
flight far from shore followed abruptly by radio silence reminds us of the harsh
consequences of the Swallow-tailed Kite’s physiological limits. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>However, In the last few days, Sanibel
South has miraculously raised the bar for those that will follow. After spending
the night of July 24<sup>th</sup> in the Ten-thousand Islands National Wildlife
Refuge (near Chokoloskee, Florida), she took a tailwind offshore around 10:00
a.m. and flew southwestward across the lower Florida Keys and out over the
cold, deep waters of the Yucatan Channel for 260 miles, right toward the
northeastern Yucatan Peninsula. With her speed and direct trajectory, it was
not alarming to see her bypass Cuba. About half the kites we have tracked have
done so, reaching the eastern shoreline of the Yucatan peninsula within 12 to
20 hours. </span></span></p>
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happens, the weather had a different plan. With 200 miles to go, a strong wind
started blowing directly toward the west, and Sanibel South hitched a ride, blasting
right past the Yucatan, flying downwind for another 800 miles before almost reaching
the eastern shore of mainland Mexico. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almost. Had she flown another 50
miles, Sanibel South would have reached the coastal wetlands, farm fields, and
forests of the state of Tamaulipas by mid-day on July 28<sup>th</sup>. Instead,
as you can see on the map, she flew an 80-mile ellipse to the northeast
(looking for land she might be able to reach…climbing for a better view?),
ending up back on her original westward course at 10:00 p.m. that night. From
there, she headed northwest until sunrise, when she probably could have seen
the Mexican coastline less than 25 miles away. But instead of flying toward
shore, she took up a northeasterly course, paralleling the coastline for 350
miles before finally coming ashore near Freeport, Texas, just after midnight on
July 29<sup>th </sup>(almost 1:00 a.m. July 30<sup>th</sup>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She crossed the narrow strand of beach 106
hours after leaving the southwestern coast of Florida behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBvmGmykzceVNuwR-Jmzz4m3TlVtC25KzTxoGZMU6f2F9SSHpa1qLA_31fcW1ze40JCkiLP6xGYUyHh-dAG0usytd-adUxX0wXNZ9P_QHomD-TP-eri4dTRjlbtmWN2JCHnx_5kjxy80/s1046/Sanibel+Gulf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1046" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBvmGmykzceVNuwR-Jmzz4m3TlVtC25KzTxoGZMU6f2F9SSHpa1qLA_31fcW1ze40JCkiLP6xGYUyHh-dAG0usytd-adUxX0wXNZ9P_QHomD-TP-eri4dTRjlbtmWN2JCHnx_5kjxy80/s640/Sanibel+Gulf.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Southbound migration across the Gulf of Mexico of Sanibel South, a Swallow-tailed Kite tracked by GPS in 2020 by ARCI.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This over-water flight of at least
1,755 miles (an average of 16.6 miles per hour) is the longest ARCI has ever recorded
in 25 years of remotely tracking migrating Swallow-tailed Kites. Having witnessed
so many Swallow-tailed Kite over-water migratory flights ending in death after
three to four days, we believe Sanibel South must have been unusually fit.
Perhaps she owes her success to the masses of insects she had been eating
before leaving Florida. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sanibel South understandably is taking
her time and refueling in south Texas. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us hope the rest of the southbound
Swallow-tailed Kites have the resources they need to get across the Gulf of
Mexico, and to make the return trip in the spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We look forward to sharing more of
their stories as the migration season unfolds. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> You can be part of our Swallow-tailed
Kite Population Monitoring Survey by reporting your sightings here: </span><a href="http://arcinst.org/2020-stki-population-survey" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://arcinst.org/2020-stki-population-survey</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
</p><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For great live wind maps, click here: </span><a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://earth.nullschool.net/</span></a> <br /></p>ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-81616868819783538112020-08-06T11:00:00.000-04:002020-08-06T11:00:37.399-04:00Palm Beach County Kites: A rewarding conservation collaboration
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">We are delighted to be partnering with the <a href="https://www.palmbeachzoo.org/" target="_blank">Palm Beach Zoo &
Conservation Society</a> and <a href="https://discover.pbcgov.org/erm/Pages/default.aspx">Palm Beach County’s Department of Environmental Resources Management (ERM)</a> on Swallow-tailed Kite remote tracking research. We
are now tracking four Swallow-tailed Kites from breeding locations within the
County’s ERM properties discovered by ERM staff, who also joined us on the capture
and tagging process. Zoo staff also assisted in tagging the kites, with the
help of the Zoo’s animal ambassador “Hino”, a Great Horned Owl trained for educational
programs. Likewise, the <a href="https://arc4raptors.org/" target="_blank">Avian Reconditioning Center (ARC)</a> <a name="_Hlk46409105">contributed
the use of their Great Horned Owl “Nonamé</a>” along with that of the owl’s
handler, Nicole Jones. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBdL0uLAZxTSs3LfE0eUaf3z3Bmr_9_UcuvKFrvNNHJO-fhyphenhyphenSZDZMr7lthgA7wzGGoO3e59cjSYOq5wlRuamM9Q4HY7zBAW8DJgx6AhnLOr5tyuHkGB9eVaVWxF_2qR3aQoExGE2NN78/s2048/2020-06-06+08.19.13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBdL0uLAZxTSs3LfE0eUaf3z3Bmr_9_UcuvKFrvNNHJO-fhyphenhyphenSZDZMr7lthgA7wzGGoO3e59cjSYOq5wlRuamM9Q4HY7zBAW8DJgx6AhnLOr5tyuHkGB9eVaVWxF_2qR3aQoExGE2NN78/s640/2020-06-06+08.19.13.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Callie Coxon of the Palm Beach Zoo holds a Swallow-tailed Kite fitted with a GPS-transmitter ready for release on Palm Beach County ERM lands.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="ms-rtethemefontface-1">As most kites do after their
nest duties are over, the newly tagged adults, moved to areas where they could
gorge on abundant insect food and acquire the necessary fat to prepare for
their migration to South America. In the process, many of the kites we tag find
each other at communal roost sites and foraging aggregations across the
southeastern U.S. before beginning their southbound migration. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="ms-rtethemefontface-1">Two of our Palm Beach
Kites, PBC-ERM Male and Jeaga 2, have joined flocks of kites that have
frequented foraging areas throughout Palm Beach County. Jeaga 1 has circled
west around Lake Okeechobee and is now using agriculture areas in St. Lucie
County. Jeaga 3 has traveled the farthest, making a day trip from a core area
between Lake Apopka and Palatka, Florida, to the Altamaha River of southeastern
Georgia. These birds could leave Florida any day now. We are excited to see
where their journeys take them, where they will eventually winter in South
America, and what new threats may have emerged there and along the way.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVM4d52LrwAo1fWqqu08HzbE_-Xrqx8fthfCrhMXpLUo9g2PZp03QfYWSaUV8IR144IxjRE6puSmJXhqn1Bgl55Le-pFGW7MwkyvRJ-FyMHmMI9rFFtAYvYwvkP6YCXwq-ozRsoVlZvlc/s870/PBC+4kites+in+FL+2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img alt="July 2020 locations of four Swallow-tailed Kites tagged in Palm Beach County, FL by ARCI" border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="870" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVM4d52LrwAo1fWqqu08HzbE_-Xrqx8fthfCrhMXpLUo9g2PZp03QfYWSaUV8IR144IxjRE6puSmJXhqn1Bgl55Le-pFGW7MwkyvRJ-FyMHmMI9rFFtAYvYwvkP6YCXwq-ozRsoVlZvlc/w640-h476/PBC+4kites+in+FL+2020.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">July 2020 locations of four Swallow-tailed Kites tagged in Palm Beach County, FL by ARCI</span><br /></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="ms-rtethemefontface-1"></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some sights from this collaborative effort can be viewed in
this photo journal:</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://discover.pbcgov.org/erm/Pages/Trail-Tales.aspx" target="_blank"><span>https://discover.pbcgov.org/erm/Pages/Trail-Tales.aspx</span></a></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society, in
conjunction with long-time Zoo sponsor Florida Power & Light Company, have
generously provided funding for the solar-powered GSM-GPS transmitters needed
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<![endif]-->ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-28045293191559605382020-07-27T11:38:00.000-04:002020-07-27T11:41:39.677-04:00A Special Swallow-tailed Kite from Sanibel Island<br />
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At the close of the 2020 Swallow-tailed Kite breeding
season, when most kite families had already moved on from their nest sites to
prepare for fall migration, ARCI succeeded in capturing and deploying a GPS backpack
transmitter on an adult, <i>Sanibel South,</i> near its nest on West Gulf Drive
on Sanibel Island, Florida. We are grateful for the enabling support of the
Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society and the family of the late Jim Griffith, whose
boundless energy and generosity inspired and fueled so many successful
conservation endeavors on Sanibel Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audrey Albrecht of SCCF holds a Swallow-tailed Kite in a protective can while Gina Kent of ARCI takes leg measurements and Amanda Wilkes of ARC records notes. Photo by Cheri Hollis</td></tr>
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At a different nest last year, but also in honor of Jim, ARCI
tagged and began tracking a male Swallow-tailed Kite, named <i>Sanibel</i>. Although
this bird proceeded to complete a full round-trip migration between Florida and
its Brazilian winter range, his GPS data stream ceased in early March soon
after he reached the Gulf coast of Florida’s Big Bend region. We have not been
able to discern whether <i>Sanibel</i> died or his transmitter failed
prematurely. Many able observers on Sanibel watched for a Swallow-tailed Kite carrying
a transmitter near <i>Sanibel’s</i> former nesting territory. However, given
the low profile and internal antenna of the tracking device he was carrying, <i>Sanibel’s</i>
fate may remain a mystery.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gina Kent of the Avian Research and Conservation Institute gets ready to release Sanibel South, a GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite. Photo by Cheri Hollis.</td></tr>
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After successfully fledging two offspring, <i>Sanibel South </i>made
her way inland to the ranch and farmlands west of Lake Okeechobee, in Glades County,
Florida, where she began preparing for her southbound migration. However,
rather than lingering there, she continued 220 miles north to Gilchrist County,
Florida, where she spent her nights roosting along the Santa Fe River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Movement of Sanibel South, a Swallow-tailed Kite GPS-tracked by the Avian Research and Conservation Institute through July, 2020.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><i>Sanibel South</i> stayed there for the better part of 20
days, apart from two interesting field trips. One was a 140-mile overnight venture
to the St. Mary’s River (the Florida/Georgia state line) within the Okefenokee
National Wildlife Refuge. The other trip was 23 miles due east of her Santa Fe
roost to Gainesville, Florida, where she spent a night five blocks away from the
ARCI office!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next day, she promptly backtracked
to her Gilchrist County foraging area (although we didn’t get to thank her
personally, we imagined her Gainesville visit a nice gesture).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alachua County, Florida foraging aggregation of Swallow-tailed Kites over melon fields, July 2020. Photo by Adam Kent</td></tr>
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We had the opportunity this week to make a day trip to <i>Sanibel
South’s</i> foraging area. To our great surprise, Sanibel was in the company of
over 600 Swallow-tailed Kites!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
birds were taking advantage of the insects swarming over fallow fields, rotting
watermelon crops, and small pine plantations along a busy county road – a Swallow-tailed
Kite phenomenon that occurs sporadically at this time of year. Although we were
unable to pick out <i>Sanibel South, </i>just knowing that she was in good
company among the swirling masses of foraging kites and rapidly preparing for her
imminent 5,000-mile migration gave us welcome piece of mind.</div>
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<i>Sanibel</i> <i>South</i> has since made a southward move into Collier County, Florida. We expect that she soon will be making her
400+ mile crossing over the Gulf of Mexico to pick up the traditional
southbound, overland pathway of thousands of other Swallow-tailed Kites
temporarily vacating their breeding range here in the southeastern United
States. This is always a joyful-yet-sad time of year for us, all the more so as
we remember Jim Griffith. However, with March likely to be here before we know
it, and if we and the kites are all fortunate enough to be able to partake of another
intoxicating southern spring, we can once again celebrate this glorious avian
parable of nature’s inexplicable beauty and resilience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
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Special thanks to Cheri Hollis, Audrey Albrecht of Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, Amanda
Wilkes and Nonamé the Great-horned Owl of the Avian Reconditioning Center, Phyllis
Gresham and Debi Griffith, all for whom this research would not be possible.</div>
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<![endif]-->ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-73710608421577340952020-07-20T14:50:00.000-04:002020-07-20T14:50:07.068-04:00ARCI’s GPS tracking of Swallow-tailed Kite during the 2020 breeding seasonThis has been a difficult nesting season for Swallow-tailed Kites and researchers. There were many nest failures, and COVID-19 greatly restricted our ability to find and monitor nesting kites. Here is a summary of what we have noted and suspect based on the results of ARCI’s GPS telemetry research, which we feel particularly fortunate to have in place.<br />
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Apopka once again enjoyed his summer without committing to a nest site. He spent most of his time around Longwood, Florida, a familiar area.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apopka, a GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite (note the small transmitter on his back). Photo by S. Mitcham.</td></tr>
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Location data from the beginning of the nesting season indicated that Pritchard, tagged on Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina, returned to and initially remained near his previously used home range at the beginning of the season, but suddenly moved to an area around a previously identified roost site several miles to the north, on the New River. Although this may have resulted from predation at his habitually used nest site, we have no way of knowing.<br />
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In Florida, we were grateful to several local land managers for field investigations of clusters of GPS locations on three properties: Palm Beach County Environmental Resources Management lands, the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge (Levy County), and the T. Mabry Carlton Jr. Memorial Reserve (Sarasota County). Recently used but vacant nests were observed on each of the territories of the tagged males PBC-ERM, Suwannee, and Sarasota. Given the timing, these observations suggest that all three nests failed prior to the time when fledging would have occurred, most likely due to predation.<br />
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Dr. Jennifer Coulson, Orleans Audubon reported that Ponchitolawa’s nest in Louisiana was depredated.<br />
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Female Sawgrass was spotted and monitored for nesting behavior by local naturalist Mia Majetschak, who had observed them nest building but was unable to detect the kites in the area a few days later. Either the pair did not produce any eggs, or the eggs were depredated soon thereafter.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sawgrass, a GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite (note the small transmitter on her back). Photo by M. Majetschak.</td></tr>
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Based on our observations and those of others at nest territories that have been active in recent years, some Swallow-tailed Kites nested successfully this year. However, such success was not reflected among the sample of kites we are currently tracking.<br />
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Even when COVID-19 was not an issue, it has been impossible for ARCI’s small but experienced staff to visit and monitor the Swallow-tailed Kite nests throughout Florida. This is why we developed the <a href="https://www.eyesonkites.org/">Eyes on Kites</a> nest monitoring program to which many of you have contributed. Now is the time to finish up and submit your-nest fate forms. If you knew of a nest site this year, we would love to have the location and final-outcome data for our Florida Kite Nest database, so please consider signing up and sharing your contributions through our <a href="https://www.eyesonkites.org/">form</a>. <br />
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Thank you for all your sightings! Together we can learn about keep up with nesting locations and success throughout Florida.ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-78597270739612288212020-07-17T14:15:00.001-04:002020-07-22T13:30:58.570-04:00Swallow-tailed Kite Population Monitoring Surveys during COVID-19<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">@ D. Brewer 2018. Swallow-tailed Kites in roost tree.</td></tr>
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Every year since 1989, ARCI has conducted systematic aerial
surveys to count Swallow-tailed Kites at more than 15 large pre-migration
roosts during a 10-day window in late July. These roosts, some of which hold up
to 4,000 birds, provide an extremely rare and valuable opportunity for
long-term population monitoring of this imperiled species. This year, however, health,
safety and funding constraints resulting from COVID-19 have forced us to scale
back ARCI’s monitoring surveys by limiting our coverage to just the four
largest roosts (which usually account for at least 85-90% of the birds
observed) and by conducting fewer flights by focusing more tightly around the
likely peak time period.</div>
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As a result, it will be particularly valuable this year to
have YOU and <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><a href="http://arcinst.org/2020-stki-population-survey">YOUR KITE SIGHTINGS</a></span> </span>serving as our eyes on feeding and gathering places
that we could not otherwise monitor and include in ARCI’s surveys. </div>
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Pre-migration roosts are places where Swallow-tailed Kites gather
for the night after their nesting responsibilities are over, but prior to
departure on their southbound migration. These night roosts also serve as
jumping-off points for daily foraging flights, for which Swallow-tailed Kites
usually travel in small flocks. In these ways, individual kites benefit by
having a safe place to sleep (more eyes and ears to detect predators) and also
from what they can learn from each other about good foraging opportunities over
the surrounding landscape, which may shift in location over periods of days and
even hours. Knowing the most productive places to feed allows the kites to gain
weight rapidly and prepare themselves for their imminent 5,000+ mile southbound migration,
which begins with a very dangerous 450 to 600-mile flight over open ocean to
Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.</div>
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From years of conducting these carefully designed aerial
photo surveys, we are confident that we are probably counting most of the
Swallow-tailed Kites that nest and hatch in Florida each breeding season, and
at least two-thirds of the individuals associated with nests across the seven
southeastern states that represent the current United States breeding range of
this species. </div>
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However, we know that we are missing kites that are NOT
using these large roosts as pre-migration staging areas. This is why it is so
useful to have your help in counting Swallow-tailed Kites during the same time
period when we are conducting our systematic aerial surveys. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">@ Beckner 2019. Swallow-tailed Kites in roost tree.</td></tr>
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How would you go about this? First and foremost, it is
important that you protect your health and that of others by keeping your distance
and wearing a mask when near others. Some of you may be able to see kites right
in your neighborhood. Others may know of or suspect good observation conditions
in secluded places within driving or paddling range, where you can search for
roosting and foraging kites while maintaining safe distances from other people. </div>
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Besides considering the health of those around you, please
be extremely careful not to disturb or flush any roosting kites. Even one such
intrusion might discourage individual kites from returning to a well-known and
favored roost sight where they can sleep safely and, in effect, share
information about productive feeding areas, which are critically important to
their health and safety during the long over-water first leg of their arduous southbound
journey. If any kites suddenly rise up in energetic flight, or even if they just
call at you or seem to continually look alert in your direction, please assume you
are too close and back off immediately.</div>
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To contribute to our growing community database of
Swallow-tailed Kite sightings during this very special time of year – and under
these challenging current conditions – please report the date, time, location,
number, and behavior of kites you see with this <span style="color: #20124d;"><a href="http://arcinst.org/2020-stki-population-survey">2020 Population Monitoring Survey</a></span> form. The form is responsive to your smart device, so you can even
report from the field!</div>
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We are very grateful for your valuable help monitoring Swallow-tailed
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<![endif]-->ARCIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18233099282480355594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-43108332250499358572020-05-06T12:08:00.000-04:002020-05-06T12:08:45.054-04:00While Swallow-tailed Kites settle into summer ranges, we re-cap the importance of tracking their movements.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Avian Research and Conservation Institute, together with Orleans Audubon (Louisiana), has been tracking Swallow-tailed Kites with GPS-transmitters to learn about breeding behavior, habitat use, roosting locations, their migratory path, and winter activity ranges in South America.<br />
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The nesting season is in full swing for Swallow-tailed Kites throughout the U.S. The map below shows nine kites on their breeding ranges. We suspect all but Sanibel and Apopka have settled into nesting. Apopka has been using an area in Altamonte Springs for the last 3 years but has not shown signs of nest attendance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Babcock was our first tracked kite to return to the U.S. She immediately went to her former breeding area in Charlotte County, Florida, but we have not gotten any data since early March. The most likely explanation is that her transmitter exceeded its life expectancy. Similarly, Sanibel’s radio stopped transmitting soon after he reached the Florida Panhandle and began making his way south. We have not received data from him on his Sanibel Island nesting range, but our partners there are watching for a kite with a small “bump” on its back. Sanibel’s transmitter was not yet due to expire, but we remain hopeful that it might otherwise have failed and that he will still be spotted. <br />
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Five of our tagged males do appear to be nesting: PBC-ERM male, Sarasota, Suwannee, Ponchitolawa, and Pritchard. Sawgrass was our latest GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite to return to the U.S. and she appears to be settling into a familiar nesting area in Pinellas County, Florida.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjurG5kXdFCutb7vT2z9Xoijh9yFgJWj6jvjYH8BCoEKmtenlz7Yo8irpOTe-eVeedGt90dbRKEz2tVoaVOQkWNzoj3JsPwgXuv4_fhyphenhyphenE9irJbQfI4TP82nUbP-aLvLN7dxeMY-VEf0APg/s1600/catch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjurG5kXdFCutb7vT2z9Xoijh9yFgJWj6jvjYH8BCoEKmtenlz7Yo8irpOTe-eVeedGt90dbRKEz2tVoaVOQkWNzoj3JsPwgXuv4_fhyphenhyphenE9irJbQfI4TP82nUbP-aLvLN7dxeMY-VEf0APg/s320/catch.jpg" width="320" /></a>Given ARCI’s small staff, and especially now with limited travel options, we are very grateful for our collaborator’s <i>Eyes on Kites</i> to help us monitor these GPS-tracked birds and other nesting kites on habitually used nesting areas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">It has been challenging these last nine months monitoring the 16 Swallow-tailed Kites that we were tracking at the end of the 2019 breeding season. Our study sample is now down to seven individuals. Most of the missing birds were carrying transmitters due to expire soon (see the next paragraph on related technical and cost considerations). Furthermore, every annual migration cycle poses serious risks to the kites’ survival. In fact, after monitoring years of annual migrations of tagged Swallow-tailed Kites, we would have expected that, on average, at least two or even three of the 16 birds that left the U.S. at the end of last summer (July-August 2019) would not survive to nest again in 2020. This reality, combined with the large number of kites recently carrying radios with imminent expiration dates, apparently has left us with a relatively sudden reduction in the number of transmitting kites. As these birds face increasingly more severe storms, wildfires, habitat destruction, and persecution, it is more important than ever to be tracking these growing threats and conveying the impacts they are having on wildlife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidkjeELRgG6osmXGDhKjf0Es_LfPeDRH_dEMlDyw14z99AARfa_951Nh_cJOrXbBc3MqExqFwIbEsjQa8pXC_EshTr-_o4HcWJmIjGaNA7ghyphenhyphencI6Jvt_e9FVkPVtY27avfMSYmGOBgsAc/s1600/bug4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidkjeELRgG6osmXGDhKjf0Es_LfPeDRH_dEMlDyw14z99AARfa_951Nh_cJOrXbBc3MqExqFwIbEsjQa8pXC_EshTr-_o4HcWJmIjGaNA7ghyphenhyphencI6Jvt_e9FVkPVtY27avfMSYmGOBgsAc/s320/bug4.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">It is worth commenting here on the lifespan of the equipment we are now using to track Swallow-tailed Kites. Although cell-phone/GPS devices have storage batteries that repeatedly recharge via solar panels, these batteries, necessarily very small, can withstand only so many charge/recharge cycles before their stored energy is insufficient for transmission to cell towers (in our experience, lifespan has varied from about 1.5 to 3.0 years). The satellite/GPS devices we used more in the past last much longer (5.5 to 7.0 years), but they cost over three times as much per unit and tracking location.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Our trend toward using more cell/GPS tracking technology (i.e., accepting the trade-off between longer radio life versus being able to afford tagging more individuals) reflects our current research priorities for addressing the critical management and conservation needs of Swallow-tailed Kites. These include detecting losses of vital nesting, migration, and wintering habitats; discovering new and re-located pre-migration roosts sites, which support long-term population monitoring and require surveillance for human disturbance and habitat degradation; informing land-management practices that favor nesting, foraging, and wintering kites; and identifying anthropogenic sources of mortality throughout the year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXwgTWOdZ30BAHES3pJLvvSPeQPcHSucmEFhido6Wtp3LkHfTlb3BLevwzeTo-CMyuEwBaIhyzkUcXHYEDLhy2tRaZ5nOBBdSBdnAABopZjBeruT_cb4rZF6ZHXy4UzuJECclQveoMl0/s1600/mwKitesback.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXwgTWOdZ30BAHES3pJLvvSPeQPcHSucmEFhido6Wtp3LkHfTlb3BLevwzeTo-CMyuEwBaIhyzkUcXHYEDLhy2tRaZ5nOBBdSBdnAABopZjBeruT_cb4rZF6ZHXy4UzuJECclQveoMl0/s320/mwKitesback.jpg" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">This last research need, which requires detecting when and where kites die, highlights the value of remotely tracking Swallow-tailed Kites. Human-induced changes in global climate regimes, the accelerating destruction of natural habitats by unsustainable economic and social conditions, and increasing applications of agricultural pesticides and herbicides harmful to wildlife are rapidly elevating the risks confronting the Swallow-tailed Kite’s U. S. breeding population all across their annual, 10,000-mile hemispheric range. Of particular concern are threats on their migratory and winter range– vast areas that lie beyond what we can observe and monitor directly. In the next two months, as we have periodically in the past, we will analyze all the satellite and cellular tracking data we have collected since 1996 to illuminate patterns in where and when mortality has occurred, and how these patterns may be shifting over time. What we learn will be posted on this site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">We hope that you enjoy these blogs and, like us, are inspired by each and every kite’s story. Our promise is to continue making the very careful, informed decisions needed to safely gather the data needed for science-based bird conservation. The benefits of remote tracking are enormous. However, as you can imagine, it is costly. As ARCI’s mission keeps growing in importance, so too do the challenges in raising the necessary financial support. Would you like to be part of our sponsoring team and join the list of ARCI’s supporters with a one-time or monthly donation? You can find more information on our </span><a href="https://crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonation?ApiKey=pub_c0ba521a-7990-11e4-b8ac-0a8b51b42b90&WidgetId=91136" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Make a Gift page.</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">As always, we are grateful to all of the organizations and individuals who have made ARCI’s long-term studies of Swallow-tailed Kites possible, thus helping us understand how these amazing birds need our help. The ever-growing list of current contributors includes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://cbop.audubon.org/" target="_blank">Audubon Center for Birds of Prey</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.biographic.com/" target="_blank">bioGraphic</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://caloosabirdclub.org/" target="_blank">Caloosa Bird Club</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://www.clearwateraudubonsociety.org/" target="_blank">Clearwater Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://www.crowclinic.org/" target="_blank">CROW - Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc.</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/florida_panther/" target="_blank">Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://palmettobluffconservancy-friends.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Palmetto Bluff Conservancy</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.carltonreserve.org/" target="_blank">Friends of the Carlton Reserve</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.floridapanther.org/" target="_blank">Friends of the Florida Panther Refuge</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://www.friendsofrefuges.org/" target="_blank">Friends of the Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.halifaxriveras.org/" target="_blank">Halifax River Audubon</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.jacksonvillezoo.org/" target="_blank">Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/lower_suwannee/" target="_blank">Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.audubon.org/" target="_blank">National Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://oklawaha-valley-audubon.org/" target="_blank">Oklawaha Valley Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.orangeaudubonfl.org/" target="_blank">Orange Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://jjaudubon.net/" target="_blank">Orleans Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://discover.pbcgov.org/erm/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.palmbeachzoo.org/" target="_blank">Palm Beach Zoo</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.palmettobluff.com/about/conservancy" target="_blank">Palmetto Bluff Conservancy</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://peaceriveraudubon.org/" target="_blank">Peace River Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://www.san-capaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="http://www.sccf.org/" target="_blank">Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation SCCF</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.sarasotaaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Sarasota Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://seminoleaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.stpeteaudubon.org/" target="_blank">St. Petersburg Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.sunrisewildlife.org/" target="_blank">Sunrise Wildlife Rehabilitation</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://arc4raptors.org/" target="_blank">The Avian Reconditioning Center for Birds of Prey</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://www.veniceaudubon.org/" target="_blank">Venice Area Audubon Society</a></span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.westvolusiaaudubon.org/" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 14.6667px;" target="_blank">West Volusia Audubon</a></div>
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Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-50496054540129275372020-04-24T21:25:00.000-04:002020-04-28T21:26:10.288-04:00Sawgrass returns for the 4th time! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Sawgrass returns for the 4th time! A GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite from Pinellas County Florida.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Sawgrass, a female Swallow-tailed Kite, was tagged in 2016 at Sawgrass Lake Park. Our longest-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite, we have been with her through triumph and failure. Her nests have failed the last two years while nesting in Pinellas County, but her perseverance has allowed her to escape p</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">redators and illness to complete four 10,000-mile migrations to South America and back!<br /><br />Sawgrass wintered in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil and started north on 7 February. Her route took her along the east side of the Andes Mountains and down to the Colombian coastal plane, where she cut across the Pacific Ocean to Panama. Another over-water shortcut was between the northern coast of Honduras and Quintana Roo, Mexico. She spent the night at the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula, then launched 29 March on a tail wind that took her due north, arriving 37 hours later on the Gulf coast of Mississippi. Once on land, she obviously knew the route back to Pinellas County, taking a few shortcuts to arrive “home” fast, on 1 April. We are watching her movements closely to see where she will settle into a nesting location. Sawgrass seems to be focusing this time on the Safety Harbor area. Let’s hope this harbor is, indeed, a safe place for her to fledge her chicks.<br /><br />We are grateful to Pinellas County Parks for their interest and access, and for the very generous monetary support of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=135012148028&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDGFdi44VowzvAJRub2mQbDvirWjpDmMU-0sl6_0MGP27onGtCcaD92QV8QZmbqZjeuxCH2PQn4Rak5%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/stpeteaudubon/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARDGFdi44VowzvAJRub2mQbDvirWjpDmMU-0sl6_0MGP27onGtCcaD92QV8QZmbqZjeuxCH2PQn4Rak5" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">St. Petersburg Audubon Society</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(SPAS), which has made this long-term tracking effort possible. We are excited to be contributing to SPAS’s Raptors on the Move program, which gives local teachers and students the opportunity to use Sawgrass’s tracking data in classrooms. If you are an educator and would like more information on this program, contact raptors@stpeteaudubon.org</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-81383645879890704842020-03-31T21:24:00.000-04:002020-04-28T21:25:11.565-04:00Third Time is a Charm!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Third time is a charm! Apopka, a rehabilitated Swallow-tailed Kite tracked by GPS returns to Florida.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Apopka, like all our GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites, has a wonderful story, but his is unique in that it began in the summer of 2017 after he was hit by a car, when he was skillfully rehabilitated by the Avian Reconditioning Center for Birds of Prey (ARC). The good folks at ARC asked if ARCI w</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">ould be interested in fitting this doomed-but-turned-lucky bird with a tracking device. Given the kite’s excellent recovery, and knowing that we had little time (by then, southbound migration was already underway), we quickly got in gear. Simultaneously, an enormous amount of support began pouring forth from the greater ARC community, several Audubon Society chapters and other conservation organizations, and caring individuals. See the heart-warming thank-you list below, and view Apopka’s full story in our other blog:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-lynx-mode="origin" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swallow-tailedkites.org%2F2017%2F09%2Fa-swallow-tailed-kites-second-chance_1.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3LTraW8P0pxyZXwSDbPeoTycJsn1NplLkqTxMc2gnkXljV_PTgLlPDptI&h=AT3EqI7ysTIz05bw1GiijzrKvwDDbfURRS2OZICToMcjJZoo6ygnZQaki496DQI7DdG_7HV2BZvIUHyhmfMVnWG1XUqtGrkl7CwwPGJA2fOtw69k79a84dTPgbaF3PnI-cydfaiBEmg" href="http://www.swallow-tailedkites.org/2017/09/a-swallow-tailed-kites-second-chance_1.html?fbclid=IwAR3LTraW8P0pxyZXwSDbPeoTycJsn1NplLkqTxMc2gnkXljV_PTgLlPDptI" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">www.swallow-tailedkites.org</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">/2017/09/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">a-swallow-tailed-kites-seco</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span>nd-chance_1.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />This year, Apopka wintered in Rondônia, Brazil, as he had the previous two years, and started northward on 16 January, 2020. He, like other GPS-tagged kites before him, slowed his pace in the Amazon region of Brazil and Colombia, most likely taking advantage of good feeding conditions to put on some body weight for the lengthy journey ahead.<br /><br />Apopka’s northbound GPS track was the safest of all the Kites we’ve monitored this year, staying over land until reaching the north central shore of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. On 17 March, he set off over the Gulf of Mexico and arrived on shore thirty hours later near Mobil, Alabama. His was a very quick and direct flight. Most likely exhausted, he took four days to reach his former summer territory near Altamonte Springs, FL.<br /><br />We were ecstatic to receive a message from Sam Mitcham, a birder from the area, who was in the right place at the right time. Sam was photographing Swallow-tailed Kites when he noted one with a transmitter on its back! We were quickly able to identify this as Apopka. It’s a rare treat when we get to see our known birds, but even better when the photographs are so good showing the transmitter in its safe position on a fine-looking kite!<br /></span><br />
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Look for the "bump" transmitter on the back.<br /><br /><br />Apopka’s story would not be possible without the support and generosity of the following people and organizations:<br /><br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=210788309263510&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBzHm_tfOHR0tR9a0VmwgBCSPBNpHN-HGPIKyHpkq7HgL3wC4uYmviVi0NISYhAeD8uKy0-z9LgSqxN%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Avian-Reconditioning-Center-for-Birds-of-Prey/210788309263510?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARBzHm_tfOHR0tR9a0VmwgBCSPBNpHN-HGPIKyHpkq7HgL3wC4uYmviVi0NISYhAeD8uKy0-z9LgSqxN" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Avian Reconditioning Center for Birds of Prey</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– Paula Ashby and Carol McKorckle<br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=178399165506339&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBSQsLzcIjIuPINoU-LVUMHmO0SUKd8U_uByfrHR91B3y7FWMPkcpJSyvon2PPfH5aAF4LmsB0ep_0-%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/AudubonCenterforBirdsofPrey/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARBSQsLzcIjIuPINoU-LVUMHmO0SUKd8U_uByfrHR91B3y7FWMPkcpJSyvon2PPfH5aAF4LmsB0ep_0-" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Audubon Center for Birds of Prey</a><br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=346570622127516&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDoH47uJ35_RvnuKjqTgZQ8ehYG3WOq1mprp2VUsXOBAihCNtny2Zzu2-GGkTt7xXxfLA7GXguKiT03%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/cityofapopka/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARDoH47uJ35_RvnuKjqTgZQ8ehYG3WOq1mprp2VUsXOBAihCNtny2Zzu2-GGkTt7xXxfLA7GXguKiT03" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">City of Apopka- News, Events, & Info</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Mayor Joe Kilsheimer<br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/group.php?id=1482141301845355&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1482141301845355/" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Halifax River Audubon</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- David Hartgrove<br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=562171907459263&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDbUR120Ip0rwxzFq0xyCL_YKTosBbzbovUhszU3-SaeLY6UjXKu_VUe79AFZVI1LBMMh5Pky_9u_iE%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/OklawahaValleyAudubonSociety/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARDbUR120Ip0rwxzFq0xyCL_YKTosBbzbovUhszU3-SaeLY6UjXKu_VUe79AFZVI1LBMMh5Pky_9u_iE" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Oklawaha Valley Audubon Society - OVAS</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Stacy Kelly<br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=274467682718667&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARCP_pm24RqqQT4VyTKaZJ4G9VUxppm34HNwaD6otRdapIijx9hMQj5cvA1zflRlQpL_Dv3C262M3nui%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/seminoleaudubonsociety/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARCP_pm24RqqQT4VyTKaZJ4G9VUxppm34HNwaD6otRdapIijx9hMQj5cvA1zflRlQpL_Dv3C262M3nui" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Seminole Audubon Society</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Lewis Gray, Margaret Terwilliger, Sarah Donlan<br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=869021393487781&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDOi2tCjyUtvt9JQwtdyRwIlbNDh9cKEs0QkK_bp1bg3-4cgcaCj05GxDO3DnfOhsPRWma800DDoU3I%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/RaptorCenterofTampaBay/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARDOi2tCjyUtvt9JQwtdyRwIlbNDh9cKEs0QkK_bp1bg3-4cgcaCj05GxDO3DnfOhsPRWma800DDoU3I" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Raptor Center of Tampa Bay</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Barbara Walker<br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/group.php?id=213954165290043&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/213954165290043/" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Clearwater Audubon Society</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- matching the challenge issued by Tampa Bay Raptor Rescue<br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=138266226207816&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDB-DRxRSGNGOgnmLobydsIk5BEWusHvMvbx2FY-y9IErQ56SYY2XUhI-0XzQvto_itj35N2Z3pubZf%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/WestVolusiaAudubon/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARDB-DRxRSGNGOgnmLobydsIk5BEWusHvMvbx2FY-y9IErQ56SYY2XUhI-0XzQvto_itj35N2Z3pubZf" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">West Volusia Audubon</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Stephen Kintner<br />Deborah Green from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=170295309668448&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBm4Gu0RevRIEqVwNVsDFVnZ9nfML100l4dQZctE2zslwqY8vD7TC2eEi7Q6PDvasixNWNA28oHkwnW%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/Orange-Audubon-Society-170295309668448/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARBm4Gu0RevRIEqVwNVsDFVnZ9nfML100l4dQZctE2zslwqY8vD7TC2eEi7Q6PDvasixNWNA28oHkwnW" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Orange Audubon Society</a>(personal donation)<br />Janet Marks from West Volusia Audubon (personal donation)<br />Eileen Tramontana, Director of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=148489111899343&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBfDYQzESjYY4nVXVOFNOed5L6EFva5_UoUMPhywm25wmZGNRVkEEz1xcCGeSirgKmMz0OSbwPTGiNu%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/troutlakenaturecenter/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARBfDYQzESjYY4nVXVOFNOed5L6EFva5_UoUMPhywm25wmZGNRVkEEz1xcCGeSirgKmMz0OSbwPTGiNu" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Trout Lake Nature Center</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(personal donation)<br />Sandie Selman from West Volusia Audubon (personal donation)<br />Disney Volunteers from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=491507450153&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARCAyW-XieRa58ncp8_ud2l2n1bPjtoPZveDQHtFi6Jw9Hu7GT0Z4FslI7Kt6RfI7hBmaaQDuiq2nh47%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/arc4raptors/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARCAyW-XieRa58ncp8_ud2l2n1bPjtoPZveDQHtFi6Jw9Hu7GT0Z4FslI7Kt6RfI7hBmaaQDuiq2nh47" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">The Avian Reconditioning Center for Birds of Prey</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- Rebecca Grimm and Alyssa Karnitz</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-7280572461348447782020-03-26T21:22:00.000-04:002020-04-28T21:23:39.808-04:00Good news from Northbound Kites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Let’s give you some good news. Plenty to celebrate with GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites on migration.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">ARCI, together with Orleans Audubon has been tracking Swallow-tailed Kites with GPS-transmitters on their return to the US from wintering in South America.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">We have 8 kites back in the U.S!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br />Ponchitolawa has made it back to Louisiana, and from our last few posts, you know that Sanibel and PBC-ERM male had similar migrations to Florida. Also, back on Florida territories are Babcock, Sarasota, Suwannee, and most recently, Apopka.<br /><br />Pritchard made it back to Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina on 24 March.<br /><br />We’ve received news on Sawgrass! He’s creeping through Nicaragua and our next Swallow-tailed Kite to cross the Gulf of Mexico.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Not pictured are Wilson and JAX, last in Brazil and away from cell-network data uploading and we anxiously await their signal. OK and PBC-ERM female are two kites that we have not heard from since August but hope to see them alive and well near their last breeding locations in Florida.<br />Wishing speedy tailwinds to all our kite friends heading back to the US.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-90188873244271720422020-03-23T21:21:00.000-04:002020-04-28T21:21:52.886-04:00Northbound Routes of Two Swallow-tailed Kites<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As our GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites are completing the last and most dangerous stage of their return to their United States nesting areas, we will be sharing their migration progress with you here. Each individual kite writes a new, unique story each year as it faces extraordinary, unpredictable risks unlike those they must overcome in any other season. Migration is very difficult and dangero</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">us for any bird, but it is especially so for those that must cross large bodies of water, something that very few raptors ever attempt even over very short distances of just a few miles.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">In our previous post, we shared Sanibel’s migration story (gray). Now, we would like to show you how the male Swallow-tailed Kite PBC-ERM accomplished the same dangerous mission just a few days later by taking a route that was, with some very impressive-but-frightening</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>exceptions, nearly identical. We have temporarily used red here instead of white to contrast the routes. The data pins will help you track their progress along the map.<br /><br />Sanibel wintered 525 miles south of PBC-ERM and started north 8 days earlier, on 18 January, 2020. On his way north, Sanibel passed right through PBC-ERM’s wintering area. Soon, they were within 50 miles and 3 days of each other as they glided northward, a time-space relationship they maintained all the way to Mexico.<br /><br />Tailwinds apparently encouraged both kites to make an otherwise unusual and very risky over-water crossing from the northern coast of Honduras to the city of Cancun, on the northeastern tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The difference was that, after flying 10 hours, Sanibel stopped for the night, whereas PBC-ERM skirted Cancun and embarked on a nonstop over-water flight to Florida. His daring passage spanned 930 miles of open ocean without rest, food, or water, a trip he completed in just 38 hours at an average ground speed of 25 miles per hour! Most northbound Swallow-tailed Kites cross no more than about 600 miles of the Gulf of Mexico from the Yucatan to the panhandle of Florida, which is already an amazing feat for any raptor.<br />Early on the morning of March 6th, PBC-ERM reached land within the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge of Collier County, Florida. He rested there for 5 hours, waiting for the day’s thermals to begin forming so that he could use their lift to continue his journey. Once aloft, he immediately headed east across peninsular Florida and soon reached his former Palm Beach County nest site.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />As we noted in our previous post, Sanibel ended his rest on the northern Yucatan Peninsula on March 5th by catching a fast ride on strong southerly winds, crossing the Gulf of Mexico to the Big Bend region of northern Florida in just 24 hours. En route over the Gulf, he shot past Sanibel Island (at considerable distance). However, immediately after making land-fall, he turned southward along the shoreline towards his familiar Sanibel breeding grounds.<br /><br />We are waiting for the next data upload and hoping it will show that Sanibel has settled back into his nesting neighborhood on Sanibel Island.<br /><br />ARCI is grateful to the Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society and to the Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management for making it possible for ARCI to tag and track male Swallow-tailed Kite PBC-ERM. We also thank the Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society, the family of the late Jim Griffith, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, and the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife(CROW) for supporting the tagging and tracking of Sanibel.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-84262959910573278912020-03-19T21:18:00.000-04:002020-04-28T21:18:54.359-04:00Sanibel’s trip to Florida<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">After a winter holiday in Campo Grande, Brazil, Sanibel, the male Swallow-tailed Kite with a GPS-GSM transmitter, started his journey back to Florida. Each day he made northbound progress, roosting at night in a safe place until the morning’s sunlight stirred rising thermals on which he could continue gliding northward with as little expenditure of energy as possible.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Sanibel slowed down in the State of Amazonas, Brazil where, we can imagine, the diversity of insects and small prey were boosting his fat reserves for the long flight ahead.<br /><br />His first major obstacle was the Andes Mountains, with their barren, high-altitude peaks and ridges that are devoid of the insects on which migrating kites rely. He managed to cross the mountains from February 21 to 23, soon reached coastal Colombia, and continued through Central America by hugging the Caribbean coast.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Tailwinds apparently encouraged Sanibel to make an otherwise risky over-water crossing from northern Honduras to Cancun, Mexico, in just 10 hours! He spent the night there in a wooded area. At 10:00 the next morning, he resumed his fast ride on strong southerly winds, flying 24 hours across the Gulf of Mexico to the Big Bend region of northern Florida, thereby overshooting Sanibel Island, his 2019 breeding area on southwest Florida’s coast. However, on reaching shore, he immediately turned southward along the shoreline towards his former nest site.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />We now are waiting for the next data upload, with hopes it shows Sanibel settled back into his familiar neighborhood on Sanibel Island.<br /><br />Our gratitude for Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=165356742208&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBVR9p6ZkPOj01Y8BmiWFVOwx7H_fzv9zSodVefmQE6mqn-DkO_djqdZhmnB_zkZOkTrh3HdKN_iuJJ%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/SanibelCaptivaConservationFoundation/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARBVR9p6ZkPOj01Y8BmiWFVOwx7H_fzv9zSodVefmQE6mqn-DkO_djqdZhmnB_zkZOkTrh3HdKN_iuJJ" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">SCCF</a>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=134944446560554&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARC0D06JBEBOB_nXDZ88Aod5Z8UMedRnQb9FeynaDLJOgvn6OshV1AFaUTpzI-FKqebd8oCh0Zxfsp6N%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/CROWClinic/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&eid=ARC0D06JBEBOB_nXDZ88Aod5Z8UMedRnQb9FeynaDLJOgvn6OshV1AFaUTpzI-FKqebd8oCh0Zxfsp6N" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">CROW - Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to make it possible to tag and track Sanibel.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-44264940280655202052020-03-16T21:16:00.000-04:002020-04-28T21:17:20.015-04:00The good and the bad of GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites on migration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">ARCI, together with Orleans Audubon has been tracking Swallow-tailed Kites with GPS-transmitters from their breeding grounds in the US to their wintering grounds in South America. Kites are returning to the US now on favorable winds from the Yucatan.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Ponchitolawa has made it back to Louisiana, however we’ve lost the signal</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from Lacombe, a male Orleans Audubon has been tracking since 2015. His last location, in northern Costa Rica, can be seen in this map. He was the living kite we have tracked for the longest time, almost 5 years. We are fortunate for him, and the data he’s contributed over these past years that have led to our accruing knowledge of Swallow-tailed Kites.<br /><br />Our friend Sarasota also reached Florida in the last few days, landing in the Panhandle, and now making his way back to the T.M. Carlton Reserve over dry land.<br />Next in line for a Gulf of Mexico crossing is Apopka, Pritchard, and Suwannee, all with last locations in Nicaragua this week.<br /><br />Not pictured are Sawgrass, Wilson, and JAX last in Brazil and away from cell-network data uploading; as well as OK and PBC-ERM, two kites that we have not hear from since August, but hope to see them alive and well near their last breeding locations in Florida.<br /><br />Wishing speedy tailwinds to all our kite friends heading back to the US.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-28202012166260615402020-03-10T21:16:00.000-04:002020-04-28T21:16:25.467-04:00Two more GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites in the US!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">ARCI, together with Orleans Audubon has been tracking Swallow-tailed Kites with GPS-transmitters from their breeding grounds in the US to their wintering grounds in South America. Kites are returning to the US now on favorable winds from the Yucatan.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Babcock has been on her breeding range in Charlotte Co. FL since 27 February. This passed w</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">eekend both PBC-ERM male and Sanibel have returned to FL! PBC-ERM male had a perfect tailwind to carry him straight to Palm Beach Co., while Sanibel’s tailwind took him straight to Dixie Co. and he will be making his way to Sanibel Island quickly.<br /><br />Five birds are quickly passing through Central America. Next in line to make their way to the US are Ponchitolawa and Sarasota at the north shore of Honduras. Not far behind is Apopka, Suwannee, and Lacombe in southern Nicaragua.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Pritchard has set off on his own path, a few hundred miles east of the path others had taken in Colombia. He is soon to cross the Andes Mountains.<br /><br />We are waiting anxiously to hear from three kites that last were in Brazil and are now out of cell reception to transfer their location data. Sawgrass and Wilson were last in Rondonia, and JAX’s last fix was in Mato Grosso in January.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Wishing speedy tailwinds to all our kite friends heading back to the US.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-13156390837522196452020-03-02T21:15:00.000-05:002020-04-28T21:15:43.577-04:00Swallow-tailed Kites fly in!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">We’ve seen many reports of Swallow-tailed Kites in Florida already! We hope you get to see these beautiful birds soar across the sky if you haven’t already. Remember that ARCI is interested in your Swallow-tailed Kite sighting, especially if it is a nest site or roost site. Please follow this link to report your sightings to us:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a data-lynx-mode="origin" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Farcinst.org%2Freport-sightings%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR38dSIA7_U2nakZGBlQGowhDkc0DK8Sp9dN7G9_whnSMRwEk5q7tG5jhNc&h=AT22nzhkHFctrSxybUgsA3WsMkkH6ufUl__jgtPX6NBEM2XiOS37YGEhGvMb8RCPfpzuDdl1r_lzSfwqS-mXnxm_iQP7apliPw86gwIPRqibEHpE2a8dkHYTAwzk1CV45PgeK80KgLRLOAmsjT3Z227P" href="http://arcinst.org/report-sightings?fbclid=IwAR38dSIA7_U2nakZGBlQGowhDkc0DK8Sp9dN7G9_whnSMRwEk5q7tG5jhNc" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://arcinst.org/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span>report-sightings</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Twelve GPS-tracked kites have begun their northbound migration as of 2 March, 2020. Babcock not only produced data last week, but he snuck back to Florida!! He’s our first of 14 kites back in the US!<br /><br />JAX is the farthest south, in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, while 4 kites are in the State of Rondônia, Brazil with Pritchard in the lead and Wilson, Apopka, and Sarasota not far behind. Sawgrass gave us relief when she showed data once again from northern Bolivia. These birds will be crossing the cell-free area of the Amazon and we hope they travel safely through to cell range once again to tell their migration stories.<br /><br />Suwannee checked in from Colombia this week and is about to cross the treacherous Andes Mountains. The two Louisiana Kites, Lacombe and Ponchitolawa have cruised over the Andes of Columbia and are just getting to Panama now.<br /><br />Two Kites tagged in 2019, Sanibel and PBC-ERM Male are in Nicaragua and will be our next to watch returning to Florida.<br /><br />Not pictured are OK and PBC-ERM female where we lost their signals in August of last year in Colombia on their southbound migration. We are holding hope that they will be seen on their breeding grounds this season and that their transmitters produce data once again.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-24769667331127029852020-02-17T21:14:00.000-05:002020-04-28T21:14:40.444-04:00Northbound progress, but all Kites still in South America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">ARCI will be reporting on the 14 Swallow-tailed Kites we are tracking with GPS-equipped transmitters as they return from their wintering grounds in South America. These kites were tagged during the summer on their breeding range in the southeastern US from 2015 to 2019. They are named after the area where they were tagged.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Please get to</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>know our Swallow-tailed Kites. Each has its own story, continuing to unfold, and wonderful sponsorship and support teams that have made this tracking project possible.<br /><br />Eleven tracked kites have begun their northbound migration. As of 17 February, 2020, in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, Pritchard and JAX are the farthest south, and Suwannee has not shown signs of migrating just yet. Many kites are in the State of Rondônia, Brazil where Wilson and Sanibel take the lead and the other four; Apopka, Sawgrass, Sarasota and PBC-ERM Male not far behind. Our two Louisiana kites, Lacombe and Ponchitolawa are cruising through the Brazilian Amazon State. The biggest surprise was Babcock, now at the Colombia/Panama border. We had not heard from her since mid-December and now she’s the farthest north.<br /><br />All of these kites are carrying solar-powered GSM/GPS transmitters that communicate through the cell phone network. When birds are beyond cell-tower range, they are unable to upload their GPS data. When this happens, the data are stored until the birds move within range of a cell tower. Therefore, we may go for long periods not “hearing” from birds as they migrate through and/or winter in remote areas. If something goes wrong during these times, we have no way of knowing what might have happened. Some of the Swallow-tailed Kites we have tagged remain beyond tracking range for their entire wintering period, and we must wait in anticipation for their radios to resume transmission once they have begun migrating again. When this happens, we receive all of the GPS fixes that have been received and stored while the transmitter has been silent. Not displayed on the map are OK and PBC-ERM Female, both last heard in Colombia in August 2019 on their southbound route. We are still hoping that they have only been beyond cell-tower range and may soon begin uploading their stored GPS locations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />The other type of tracking unit contributing to this study are solar-powered satellite/GPS transmitters, for which the GPS data are uploaded every other day from anywhere in the world. These are being carried by two birds tagged in Louisiana by our colleague Dr. Jennifer Coulson of the Orleans Audubon Society. When we do not receive data from this type of tracking unit, we know that something is wrong with either the transmitter or the bird. The solar-powered transmitter may be damaged or otherwise unable to charge its batteries. This may occur when the bird has been in dense vegetation, or if it has shed the transmitter or died is in a location where the radio cannot recharge or transmit. This has been the case with Bayou Vincent in Bolivia this winter, and now with Hobolochitto in the State of Amazonas, Brazil, which had already begun moving northward. We remain uncertain as to the fates of these birds.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-72436773166810339052020-02-14T21:12:00.000-05:002020-04-28T21:12:29.414-04:00Swallow-tailed Kites are Heading North<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">ARCI, together with Orleans Audubon, tracked 16 Swallow-tailed Kites with GPS-transmitters from their breeding grounds in the United States to their wintering grounds in South America last fall. They have been settled in parts of Brazil and Bolivia since the end of September. Then on January 18, 2020, we had our first report of a northbound kite! This map<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">update is from 4 February, 2020.<br /><br />That first northbound kite was Sanibel, a male from Sanibel Island, Florida. Although he was the first, he was not the farthest north. Hobolochitto from Mississippi has also started to migrate and is the farthest north, in the State of Amazonas, Brazil. We’ve recently lost signal on Hobolochitto and are hoping there is just a technical problem with the transmitter.<br />Five tracked kites are in Rondônia, Brazil, where Wilson, Sanibel, and Apopka are about 150 miles north of Lacombe and PBC-ERM Male.<br /><br />Ponchitolawa and JAX have also started migrating and are in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, where both Sarasota and Suwannee are still wintering.<br /><br />Farthest south in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, Babcock and Sawgrass are wintering in remote areas where we have not received their signals for four to five weeks. We hope when they start north they will come into contact with cell towers and upload their location data.<br /><br />*Not pictured is Bayou Vincent, who most likely died on her wintering grounds in Bolivia, and OK and PBC-ERM Female, both last heard in Colombia in August 2019 on their southbound route. We are still holding hope that they are out of cell service, preventing the transfer of their location information.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-6818100028546169942019-12-28T15:47:00.000-05:002020-04-28T15:47:42.693-04:00Winter Range Update on 16 GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">We have followed the Swallow-tailed Kites to familiar winter destinations within Brazil. From north to south, Apopka and Hobolochitto are in Rondônia, Brazil, about 700 km north of four kites in Mato Grosso, Brazil: Suwannee, PBC-ERM Male, Wilson, and Sarasota. This is the riverine rich area north of the Pantanal wetland.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">850 km sou</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">th, seven of our kites have gathered on the east side of Mato Grosso do Sul: Lacombe, Sanibel, Prichard, JAX. Sawgrass. Babcock, and Ponchitolawa.<br /><br />We are sorry to report that we have lost signal from Bayou Vincent in Bolivia, a Swallow-tailed Kite tagged by Jennifer Coulson in Louisiana. We are in contact with some local biologists to see about accessing her last location to get some answers.<br /><br />Our “missing” Swallow-tailed Kites OK and PBC-ERM Female have been out of cell service in Colombia since August. We still hope they are just fine and will connect with a cell network soon and upload their travel information.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303741637062341360.post-50505859851686800862019-11-03T15:45:00.000-05:002020-04-28T15:46:25.291-04:00Most Kites on Wintering Grounds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgsf8yxfavdkJoMrJo-mVCIkdgCWTO-3fy25jirZ-BxhzZiMNdhDt_vDmWLOBuo-a8qIUsD2kXZSaL5-eI1AqHjQwK67pxWVVVsiqHiWZ64YaudWvxU-CO3Lw9CsvsQ2yr-zediN9t3cc/s1600/73361244_2452341698215882_245960257212252160_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgsf8yxfavdkJoMrJo-mVCIkdgCWTO-3fy25jirZ-BxhzZiMNdhDt_vDmWLOBuo-a8qIUsD2kXZSaL5-eI1AqHjQwK67pxWVVVsiqHiWZ64YaudWvxU-CO3Lw9CsvsQ2yr-zediN9t3cc/s640/73361244_2452341698215882_245960257212252160_o.jpg" width="560" /></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Most of our 16 GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites have reached their wintering destinations. Woo hoo!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Pritchard has joined Ponchitolawa, Lacombe, and Sanibel in Mato Grosso do Sul in an area where we’ve seen many GPS-tracked Kites winter in past years.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><br />PBC-ERM Male, Suwanee, and JAX are quite close to each other north of the Pantanal (a very large tropical wetland) in Mato Grosso, Brazil, while Bayou Vincent is still in Bolivia.<br /><br />Wilson caught up with Apopka and Hobolochitto in Rondônia, Brazil, and Sarasota is still making his way through Amazonas, Brazil.<br /><br />We need some good vibes for our “missing” kites that are out of cell service, last checking in from Colombia one to two months ago: Babcock, OK, Sawgrass, and PBC-ERM Female.</span>Drew Fultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10852360046643462064noreply@blogger.com