It is now October and our birds (all
but one) are out of the States and moving through Central America. Ridgena, the
bird from Hawk Mountain, is the furthest south, with her current location near
Kankintu, Panama. Following Ridgena is Sadie, who is in Honduras, and closely
behind Sadie are Pocono Penny and Rachel Carson in Chiapas, Mexico.
From our tracking data we have been
able to compare dates between the 2015 birds:
Bird ID
|
Depart Nesting Area
|
Begin Migration
|
Out of PA
|
South of TX
|
Passing over Veracruz, MX
|
Ridgena
|
22- Aug to 24- Aug
|
24-Aug
|
26-Aug
|
23-Sep to 26-Sep
|
26-Sep to 27-Sep
|
Pocono Penny
|
9-Jul to 12- Jul
|
-
|
3-Sep to 19-Sep
|
28-Sep
|
30-Sep to 2-Oct
|
Rachel Carson
|
-
|
-
|
18-Sep
|
27-Sep
|
28-Sep to 2-Oct
|
Sadie
|
30- Jul to 3- Aug
|
8-Aug
|
18-Aug
|
24-Sep to 27-Sep
|
29-Sep to 1-Oct
|
Unfortunately,
we lost signal for Rachel Carson and Pocono Penny for a short time, not
allowing us to determine their departure from their breeding grounds or when
they started moving south. What is interesting is that even though they were
out of Pennsylvania at different dates they all managed to pass over Veracruz,
Mexico within a seven day period.
We are also very happy to inform you that on September 18th we were able to put out the fifth unit for 2015 (nine total for 2014 & 2015) on a juvenile Broadwing. Rebecca was spending time at the local banding station with the hopes of trapping one or two birds migrating through. On the 18th, the juvenile, weighing over 400 grams received a unit! What makes this bird exciting is that we have no idea where it came from. We are crossing our fingers that Chenango has a safe fall migration and a successful return migration in the spring.
Thank you to Phil Campbell and Pablo Santonja for capturing this exciting moment!
If you would like to track our tagged juvenile, Chenango, along with the other four birds, visit the Hawk Mountain Broadwing Tracking page.
