ARCI
Avian Research and Conservation Institute
Suwannee and JAX recently came back into cell coverage and have joined Lacombe in the State of Rondonia, Brazil. These birds from three completely different breeding areas are now within 80 miles of …
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All 16 GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites made it safely across the Gulf of Mexico! Wilson was our latest kite to make landfall on the Yucatan, on 4 September.Pritchard made some headway into northern …
Wilson, the GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite from South Carolina, left the US before Hurricane Dorian arrived. As the storm approached the eastern coast of Florida, winds were, and still are, very …
Bayou Vincent has reached the Amazon region of Peru. OK has fallen in line behind Bayou after crossing the Andes Mountains of Colombia. Babcock appears to be in the same place as the last update; …
Today, 27 August 2019, bioGraphic published a comprehensive article on Swallow-tailed Kite Conservation Biology. We are grateful to Steven Bedard (writer) and Mac Stone Photography for …
Many fans of Swallow-tailed Kites and followers of our tacking studies have expressed concerns about the threats posed to southbound migrant kites by the thousands of deliberately set fires raging …
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Many of the 16 kites ARCI is currently tracking have already left the US on a 5,000-mile trip to wintering destinations in South America. In last week’s blog, we described the importance of …
Left to right: Grace Campbell (ARCI, volunteer), Ken Meyer (ARCI),Larry Woodward (Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge,and Jeff Gleason (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).ARCI has some exciting news …