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20 October 2005.
All three of the birds we are following are involved in some sort of
migratory job action. Homer hasn't moved from the Shenandoah River in
nearly a month, Conanicus has found the Zapata swamps in Cuba much to his
liking. Bluebeard stayed put for nearly two weeks, but is now on the move
again.
It's hard to know what's going on. The satellite
transmitters have a motion sensor, so we do know that all the birds are
alive and flapping, if not in the expected direction.
Homer maybe just didn't get a full dose of his
migration genes. With Conanicus and Bluebeard so close together, it's
tempting to speculate that weather has not been conducive to migration,
but this is a pretty long time for there not to have been a change in the
wind direction. Bluebeard has moved again (see his maps).
Cuban ornithologist Freddy Santana and his
students have been monitoring the Osprey migration for years in
southeastern Cuba, near Santiago. Their record count for one day was 606
Ospreys! We'll check with them to see if indeed migration was slow during
this period.
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