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2008.
These are all our locations for Claws
during 2008. He covered a much larger area than any other Osprey we have
tracked on the wintering grounds.
Below are maps in chronological order beginning with January '08. |
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1-15 Jan '08. Claws
continues to explore northern Venezuela. He began the month just north of
Lago Valencia. He made a quick loop south and west on the 2nd, and then
returned to the lake. On the 8th he headed east to an area he has
frequented fairly often. On the 13th he got a bit of wanderlust and headed
west to Lago Valencia and beyond. On the 15 he went as far west as he has
been in Venezuela and was heading back southeast when we last heard from
him on the 15th. |
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15-31 Jan '08. Claws
returned to Lago Valencia on the 16th, and then pushed east to familiar
ground. On the 28th he made a quick, two-day round trip to the Lake. This
round trip was about 100 mi (160 km). |
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12-19 Aug
08.
So much for settling down at the reservoir he likes
so much (which is a bit south of this map)! He began this week up by
Santa Teresa, flew west to the Charallave res on the 14th, then down to
Ocumare. On the 16th he made a cameo appearance near Santa Teresa, then
that same day over to Charallave. Back to Ocumare on the 17th. He must
be getting dizzy.
It's 15 mi. (25 km) from the Santa T reservoir to the
one SW of Charallave. He could make that trip in 45 minutes. |
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19-25 Aug
08.
He began this week at the
Charallave reservoir, flew over to Santa Teresa on the 20th and back to
Charallave on the 24th. |
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Sept 08.
More of the same here. |
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Oct
08.
Thanks to some help from
Venezuelan ornithologist Adrian Naveda-Rodriguez, we now have names for
some of the locations Claws has been commuting between. With the
exception of the Monte Claro Clube (a quiet retreat for Caracas's
elite), all are reservoirs. The Loma de Niquel Reservoir is on the Mesia
River and is associated with a nickle mine. |
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