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Here at World On the Move, we're really excited about tracking the Osprey as it is one of the UK's great conservation success stories; in the 1950s the Osprey were virtually extinct but it is now estimated that there are 200 pairs.
Roy Dennis, of the Highland Foundation for Wildlife, let us tag along with him as he went in search of an Osprey last year. On that occasion he went to one of the nests, he had been monitoring all summer, near Forres in the central Highlands where Ospreys had nested for 42 years. He attached a GPS satellite transmitter to an adult female, which was later named Logie by the local Logie Primary School pupils.
The satellite transmitter sends daily information and we discovered that after leaving Forres, Logie flew to the Solway Firth where she went on a 5 week feeding binge. Once fully energised for a mammoth expedition, she then flew from Scotland to the north coast of France non-stop. Ultimately, Logie ended up on an island off the coast of west Africa - Roxa Island in the Guinea Bissau archipelago on 28th Sept 2007.
Come Spring 2008 and we're hoping for a first - to follow a tagged Osprey from its winter base in Africa back to the UK for its breeding season. In the next programme, we will be speaking to Roy Dennis and getting an update on Logie's current location and asking him when she is going to return to us.
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Next report: Logie starts her migration
Where is Logie now? Find out at Roy's migration diary