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20 October 2005.
All
three of the birds we are following are involved in some sort of migratory
job action. Homer hasn't moved from the Shenandoah River in nearly a month,
Conanicus has found the Zapata swamps in Cuba much to his liking.
Bluebeard stayed put for nearly two weeks, but is now on the move again.
It's hard to know what's going on. Homer maybe just didn't get a full dose
of his migration genes. With Conanicus and Bluebeard
so close together, it's tempting to speculate that weather has not been
conducive to migration, but this is a pretty long time for there not to
have been a change in the wind direction.
Cuban ornithologist Freddy Santana and his
students have been monitoring the Osprey migration for years in
southeastern Cuba, near Santiago. Their record count for one day was 606
Ospreys! We'll check with them to see if indeed migration was slow during
this period.
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