This is a blog that features the movements of eagles reared in Scotland and fitted with satellite-received transmitters. This effort to better understand eagle dispersal is being undertaken by Natural Research and its partners: the Highland Foundation for Wildlife, the RSPB, SNH and the Scottish Raptor Study Groups. Eagles have been tracked since fledging and data from them will form part of a Natural Research funded PhD by Ewan Weston at Aberdeen University.

IF YOU CLICK ON THE MAPS THEY WILL OPEN IN ANOTHER WINDOW AND WILL BE MUCH CLEARER.

Wednesday 6 February 2013

32867: 11 - 20 January 2013

32867 has a battery powered transmitter that uploads GPS data every 10 days.  The last upload was on 20 January, 17 days ago, and at that time data sent by the transmitter indicated the battery was drained.  So, it seems unlikely that we will get any more transmissions from this bird.  32867 was fitted with its tag when it was a nestling on 4 July 2010, and so has given us about 30 months of movement data.  For that whole period 32867 stayed almost entirely within about 20 km of its natal site, and these last days of transmissions were not different.  The last location on 20 January 2013 was on the coast east of Tarbert.
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