From: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 9:30 AM To: 'Jeffrey Buler' Subject: RE: [nfc-l] Night Migrating Raptors
Thanks, Jeff! Also, thanks very much for providing me with the link to Zimmerman's thesis. Interestingly, upon reviewing it, his thesis focuses more on post-breeding fall migration and wintering habitats instead of spring migration routes. It makes me wonder what other studies, if any, might be out there concerning their spring migration routes and patterns of activity. This may be very important, especially as this applies to future potential development of offshore wind farms. If these birds make the trans-Gulf migration direct from Yucatan to the West coast of Florida, any future offshore development could significantly impact the population. Currently, there is *nothing* in the offshore waters along the West coast of Florida. No drilling rigs, no seismic profiling, no ships, nothing. We were the only vessel out there. Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp From: Jeffrey Buler [mailto:jbu...@udel.edu] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 8:49 AM To: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Night Migrating Raptors Very cool observation! Swallow-tailed kites are known to migrate at night over water between Florida and Cuba. See the linked thesis by Gina Zimmerman who tracked kites with satellite and radio transmitters. http://www.bio.georgiasouthern.edu/bio-home/chandler/Zimmerman.pdf Cheers, Jeff [cid:image001.jpg@01CCFAB2.17A1E3B0]Jeffrey Buler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology Department of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology University of Delaware 246 Townsend Hall Newark, DE, USA 19716 Office: 302-831-1306 Mobile: 302-723-0156 Fax: 302-831-8889 http://ag.udel.edu/enwc/faculty/Buler.htm Center for Managed Ecosystems<http://ag.udel.edu/cme/> On 3/1/2012 4:41 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: Although these birds weren't making vocalizations, but it has been really cool to witness. I'm on the M/V Emily Bordelon about 150 miles WNW of Tampa, FL, working on recovering oceanographic research instruments. We're conducting 24-hour operations with deck lights blazing. from approximately 07:10 to 07:25 GMT (02:10 to 02:25 AM EST) the deck crew and I observed at least three simultaneous SWALLOW-TAILED KITES, 1 Laughing Gull, and a single OSPREY approach the vessel during an extended full-stop drifts. This was at about N28 26.491 by W85 27.459. I managed to get some half-decent photos of the Kites as they drifted over the vessel. At another point, from approximately 08:40 to 09:20 GMT (02:40 to 03:20 AM EST) we were visited by at least two more night migrating SWALLOW-TAILED KITES. I did not obtain photos of those birds. This was at about N28 17.256 by W85 32.837. I imagine there are several birds in migration across the Eastern Gulf of Mexico at this point and we should expect to have more observations at the next couple of nighttime stations. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
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