ARCI
Avian Research and Conservation Institute
ARCI is tracking 11 Swallow-tailed Kites from Florida (9) and South Carolina (2) fitted with GPS/GSM tracking backpacks. Each tagged Swallow-tailed Kite helps us address important questions about the …
Continue Reading about The Who, What, Where Swallow-tailed Kite Winter Update
We are delighted continue our partnerships with the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society and Palm Beach County’s Department of Environmental Resources Management (ERM) on Swallow-tailed Kite …
On 4 August, 2022 a GPS-GSM-tracked Swallow-tailed Kite named “Suwannee II” made a two-day crossing to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. After a nine-day rest in Quintana Roo, she continued south, over land …
Continue Reading about A Swallow-tailed Kite’s migration to Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
ARCI has tracked four Swallow-tailed Kites with remote GSM-GPS telemetry since 2019 from Sanibel, Florida. The most recently tracked kites were tagged in 2021. As we watch the Gulf Coast of …
Continue Reading about Good news for Sanibel: Swallow-tailed Kites safe in South America
Why does ARCI want to track Swallow-tailed Kites? Based on our experience since 1996 with using satellites and cell-phone networks to follow kites, we know that each tagged Swallow-tailed Kite will …
ARCI is now tracking two GPS-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites from the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR): “Suwannee II”, a female, was tagged in June 2022 and “Suwannee”, a male, was tagged in …
Cypress is the last of the Class of 2022 GPS/GSM-tracked Swallow-tailed Kites to migrate. He and two other kites were tagged in Palm Beach County in cooperation with the Palm Beach Zoo and …
In July we introduced you to the two Swallow-tailed Kites from South Carolina that we are tracking in collaboration with International Paper and the American Bird Conservancy. Both birds spent …
