News from the flyway on our 16 GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites on their southbound migration:Two kites are south of the Pantanal in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil: Sanibel and Ponchitolawa. These kites …
Kites Continue Farther into South America
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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13 of 16 Kites in South America
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 …
Almost all the Kites are in South America
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 Kites Cross the Gulf
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 …
Last kite leaves South Carolina
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 …
First Kites reach South America
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; …
New Articles on Swallow-tailed Kites
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 …