Dyfi Osprey Project

Dyfi Osprey Project
Osprey returning to the nest site
Main hide, July 2011

The Dyfi Osprey Project is located at the Cors Dyfi nature reserve near Derwenlas, in the county of Powys, Wales and is under the management of The Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust.[1]

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History and activity

In 2011, for the first time in over 400 years Ospreys are breeding in the Dyfi valley on the Cors Dyfi Nature Reserve site,[2] following three years work by the trust to reintroduce the birds into the area.

A resident male osprey managed to attract a female osprey (a 2008 bird from a Rutland Water nest) who laid their first egg on 25 April 2001, a second three days later and a final egg on 1 May 2011.

On 5 June 2011 the first osprey chick emerged, the second on Monday 6 June 2011 and the third on 7 June 2011, comprising one female (ringed Blue DJ) and two males (ringed Blue DH and Blue 99). The young ospreys are named after local rivers that flow into the River Dyfi; The female is Leri and the two males Einion and Dulas.[1]

Satellite tracking

The Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust has been working in partnership with the BBC since featuring the Dyfi Osprey Project on Springwatch in 2011 and in collaboration with the BBC, the Trust successfully fitted all three of the osprey chicks with GPS satellite trackers as they were ringed on 19 July 2011 to feed back positional information on their 3,500 miles (5,600 km) migration to Africa.[3] These will be the first Welsh ospreys to be satellite tracked.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Wildlife Trust
  2. ^ BBC - Dyfi estuary Ospreys
  3. ^ BBC - Dyfi estuary ospreys chicks have satellite trackers
  4. ^ GPS Tracking

External links

Coordinates: 52°34′07″N 3°55′05″W / 52.5687°N 3.918°W / 52.5687; -3.918





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