2019 All Year
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And now there is one. After we lost our signal from Borealis back in August 2018, we were in suspense all winter wondering what had happened to Holly. Holly's last signal heading south was from the Keys. We got one signal from her in early 2019 when she pinged in from a location about 260 miles west of where she'd spent her last two winters. Our next message was in March, when she showed up in Florida, having successfully dodged cell towers over a roughly 4,000 mile trip across northern South America and the Caribbean. She's home now and has found a new mate and is almost certainly feeding young now. We're trying to get someone out there to take a pic or two.
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2018-2019Move the gray rectangular slider at the bottom of the interactive map to animate the birds' movements.Dates in parentheses are the spring departure and arrival dates this spring.Holly (green!), (13 Mar-5 Apr 2018). Chesapeake Bay female. Just reappeared after 4 months under cover in Brazil. Notes: Hover the cursor over a dot to see which bird is which. Click on it for location details You can zoom in and out and move the map around. If you slide a birds marker along its path. |
2019 Updates:
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9 March
Holly takes off on her third migration wearing one of our transmitters. This departure was four days earlier than the year before and six days earlier than her northbound migration in 2017.
3 April
26 days later, Holly arrive in the Annapolis, MD, area where we tagged her back in 2016.
11 June
Holly has settled down and is nesting on a navigation marker in the Severn River in Annapolis, MD.