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Avian Research and Conservation Institute
Good news from our 16 GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites – a new check-in from PBC-ERM Male in Rondônia, Brazil! There he joins Sanibel, Apopka, and JAX above the agricultural fields. Just a bit farther …
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Almost all our 16 GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites are in South America now.Bayou Vincent is the outlier in Bolivia and seems to be settling into a wintering spot. Lacombe is across the border into …
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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