Thanks for the video! I saw a STKI yesterday at 4 pm, flying over LA70 across from the Cane Row truck stop.
Barbara Matens
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On Jul 15, 2024, at 7:20?AM, Jennifer Outlaw Coulson <jenniferocoulson@...> wrote:
? Hello everyone,
I thought you might enjoy this 5 minute video about a nestling
Swallow-tailed Kite that Orleans Audubon Society helped rescue, and then we
put a tracking device on the bird and released it on a large tract of
forest near Foxworth, MS, on the Pearl River in Marion County. We chose
this site because it has one of the larger concentrations of kites.
A collaboration with American Bird Conservancy and International Paper
allowed me to outfit the kite with a GSM-GPS transmitter. I believe this is
the first time that this type of technology (which uses cell tower
technology to relay the data) has been used on a young kite. If the "Silver
Creek" kite lives, we have the potential to learn how kites use working
forests in their first years of development and possibly also the age at
which kites first breed. So far, he's surviving well! And an update to the
video: he has moved a little farther north of Ferriday and is hanging out
in a hayfield area along the Boeuf River near the community of Alton, LA.
YouTube link:
Thank you everyone for reporting your kite sightings!
Jennifer
Jennifer Coulson
President
Orleans Audubon Society
