Interesanti... ka zivjērgļu ceļojuma uz savu ziemas mājvietu dienvidos maršruti gadu no gada atkārtojas un arī galamērķi sakrīt, vai ir tuvu...
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Owlie
Re: Estonian Osprey Nests Ilmar & Irma ~ DISCUSSION~ 2014
September 5th, 2014, 8:12 pm
Does anyone (perhaps Kukelke?) have a link or information of transmitter birds' migration routes over several years? Do they return to the same winter resort every year and do they use the same route year after year?
What I already know is that they return in a fascinating way in the spring to the very same nest year after year after thousands of kilometres flights - I think it is such a miracle of the nature!
Kukelke
September 5th, 2014, 8:54 pm
On the interactive migration map you can search for the migration routes of past years:
http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/index.php?lang=en
Here screenshots of the autumn routes of Estonian and Latvian ospreys: 2009 - 2012
No ospreys were tracked in 2013
As you can see, the individual osprey follows more or less the same route every year, although they can sometimes fly up to a two hundred km east or west from their previous migration route. I'm not sure why that is, perhaps something to do with wind conditions and visibility (they like tail winds and dislike rain, mist, low clouds, sandstorms and whatever else reduces visibility).
Their wintering grounds are always the same (just like their breeding grounds in summer), but sometimes they have to move a bit further when there's a drought or other conditions which make food scarce. You can see that with osprey Erika, who moved a bit further south in 2009 and 2011.
Also interesting is that osprey Erika in 2008, 2009 and 2011 at the start of her migration first went some 150 km to the northeast, into Russia, and then moved south again. Maybe she once discovered a good fishing spot there and used it to fill up her tanks with fuel before starting the real migration.
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