Only 2% of pine rockland forest remains within the urbanized areas of Miami-Dade County and outside of the protective border of Everglades National Park.Last …
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Riding the coastline, lifting on wind
Three of our satellite-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites made it to Brazil! Their GPS data indicate that Dayand Palmetto have almost caught up to MIA, who has been far ahead of the other migrants …
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A snapshot at summer’s end
A snapshot of the locations of seven satellite-tagged Swallow-tailed Kites on their southbound migration. PearlMS has lingered in the floodplain of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River for 7 …
PearlMS sets forth…heads west?
PearlMS begins his southbound migration heading west to circumvent the Gulf of Mexico. The last of our seven GPS-satellite tagged Swallow-tailed Kites has begun his southbound migration...heading …
The Florida flurry subdues. One kite tarries in the Magnolia State.
Bluff, Gulf Hammock and Pace depart the U.S. PearlMS the last tagged bird to remain. Bluff and Gulf Hammock left their pre-migration areas on the same day, 12 August. Bluffhad been cruising the …
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Swallow-tailed Kite migration update on all birds
13 August 2014 update of seven satellite-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites.Pace continues to stage in Sumter County, Florida (west-central peninsula), where he has been since 6 August. He makes foraging …
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Satellite-telemetry reveals large-scale use of ‘peripheral’ wetlands by Snail Kites
ARCI staff will give a presentation on the large-scale use of 'peripheral' wetlands by Snail Kites at the 2014 Raptor Research Foundation conference in Corpus Christi, Texas in September. Below is the …
Pace: Not lost but found!
Pre-migration movements of Pace, a satellite-tagged Swallow-tailed Kite. Pace had been using a relatively small area around Doctors Lake in southern Jacksonville, Florida close to his nesting …