PNHS member, Paul Tatner, got in touch to let us know about this amazing news story. A few weeks ago the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation were sent photographs of a winter female Osprey with a blue-colour ring on its left leg with the number KW0 clearly visible. It turned out to be one of two chicks ringed on 23rd June 2022 at a nest in Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park by the Clyde Ringing Group.
What’s so amazing is that the photographs were taken on the 9th of March at Bawdens Irrigation Pond in the north of Barbados! It had travelled over four thousand miles from Clyde Muirshiel to Barbados, perhaps stopping off at the Azores en-route. This is thought to be the first time that a UK Osprey has been observed in America.
Read more about the migration of this and other Ospreys in ‘A Transatlantic Flight’ by Tim Mackrill on the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation news page.
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