Subject: [Tweeters] Satellite-tagged arctic peregrine heading south for
Date: Sep 24 13:10:59 2011
From: Bud Anderson - falconresearch at gmail.com


Hi Tweeters,

"Island Girl", a migrant adult female tundra Peregrine Falcon, is
currently heading south for the third time with her GPS solar-powered
transmitter. She left Baffin Island three days ago (within 24 hours each
year...what an internal clock) and slept last night near Thunder Bay,
Ontario. She is once again heading for the Putu Dunes of south-central Chile
and you can closely follow her movements (three signals per day) at
www.frg.org. Click on *Southern Cross Peregrine Project,* then go to either
the Tracking Maps section or the Blog. If you follow the maps, click on
Island Girl and scroll down to see her daily movements. Read more details of
her trip on the blog. Blue dots indicate where she slept the night before
(midnight), yellow dots indicate 10 AM and 4PM locations

As of our last signals she was on a small island off Thunder Bay. She may
cross to Isle Royale or may continue SW past Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory at
Duluth, MN, today. time will tell.

We are pretty fond of this bird as she went through the 2010 Chilean
earthquake with us. Her signals show that, like us, she also fled the coast
after the tremors and roosted in the forested hills above the lowlands.

Several of her "fans", spread out among many countries including the US,
Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru and Colombia (for the first time) are
making the effort to intercept her this year, so we hope they are lucky
enough to spot her.

Enjoy her travels and thanks to all of the FRG members that made this
possible through their kind donations. It is appreciated.

Bud Anderson
Falcon Research Group
Box 248
Bow, WA 98232
(360) 757-1911
falconresearch at gmail.com
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