ARCI
Avian Research and Conservation Institute
08/09/2013We hope you all are enjoying these migration updates! We sure think it's fascinating stuff. Here's the latest whereabouts of the birds. Palmetto (Female) - Tagged in Palmetto Bluff, South …
Continue Reading about Swallow-tailed Kite Migration: 09 Aug 2013
08/08/2013 We are currently tracking eight Swallow-tailed Kites during their southbound migration to wintering grounds in Brazil and Bolivia. …
Continue Reading about Swallow-tailed Kite Migration: 08 Aug 2013
08/07/2013 We are currently tracking eight Swallow-tailed Kites during their southbound migration to wintering grounds in Brazil and Bolivia. …
Continue Reading about Swallow-tailed Kite Migration: 07 Aug 2013
08/06/2013 We are currently tracking eight Swallow-tailed Kites as they begin their southbound migration to their wintering grounds in Brazil and …
Continue Reading about Swallow-tailed Kite Migration: 06 Aug 2013
08/05/2013 Through June 2013, Croom continued to provide for his offspring by foraging out from his nest area east of Brooksville, Florida. On 2 …
07/11/2013 Croom and his mate have sucessfully fledged one young Swallow-tailed Kite. The juvenile began to edge out of the nest and onto neighboring branches on the 5th of June. By the 7th of …
05/20/2013On 6 August 2012, exactly one year to the day of the start of his 2011 southbound migration, Croom again departed the U.S. for South America. He took just over two months to reach his …
05/11/2013Croom, a male Swallow-tailed Kite, was tagged as an adult on 30 May 2011 on private property in Hernando County Florida, six miles southwest of the Croom tract of the Withlacoochee State …