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Swallow-tailed Kite rescue, release and tracking story

Jennifer Outlaw Coulson All Messages By This Member #2584 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
Barbara Lee Matens All Messages By This Member #2585 Thanks for the video! I saw a STKI yesterday at 4 pm, flying over LA70 across from the Cane Row truck stop. Barbara Matens toggle quoted message Show quoted text 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
Barbara Lee Matens All Messages By This Member #2586 ?Thanks for the video! I saw a STKI yesterday at 4 pm, flying over LA70 across from the Cane Row truck stop. Barbara Matens toggle quoted message Show quoted text 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

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