The teamTo see photos of the Rutland Ospreys Project Team: please click here To contact the Project Officer, Tim Mackrill:
This website was created by Barrie Galpin and is maintained by members of the project team |
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Thanks and acknowledgements to:The hundreds of volunteers who,since 1996, have given tens of thousands of hours of time, helping the project in so many ways.
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Links to other websites (last checked and updated October 2005)
National conservation organisations
Anglian Water www.anglianwater.co.uk
The Wildlife Trusts: the national co-ordinating body of which Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust is a part. www.wildlifetrust.org.uk
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds www.rspb.org.uk
The British Trust for Ornithology web site. www.bto.org
Information about Ramsar sites on the Wetlands International web site at www.wetlands.org or the official Ramsar convention website at www.ramsar.org
Local nature conservation sites
Rutland Water Nature Reserve - the home of the Rutland Osprey Project www.rutlandwater.org.uk
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust www.lrwt.org.uk
Leicestershire and Rutland Ornithological Society, with daily sightings from the two counties www.lros.org.uk
Rutland Natural History Society have their own website: www.rnhs.org.uk.
British Birdwatching Fair held at Rutland Water in August. www.birdfair.org.uk
www.rivercare.org.uk Anglian Water has teamed up with the environmental charity, EnCams (formerly Tidy Britain Group) to support people in East Anglian who want to adopt a stretch of river and help care for their local environment.
Satellite Tracking
The Argos Satellite Tracking system: www.cls.fr (French distributor)
The Zoological Museum of Helsinki, Finland - some astounding migratory routes that have been recorded by Finnish Ospreys over the past few years. Includes map of the Autumn 2005 migration for one bird.
The Raptor Centre, Highway to the Tropics: satellite tracking Ospreys in the USA until 2002. www.raptor.cvm.umn.edu (Unfortunately maps and data no longer available 10/2005)
Migrating Birds Know No Boundaries: satellite tracking birds in the Middle East www.birds.org.il (No data 10/2005)
Cranes and storks were tracked as they migrated from Central Bohemia to tropical Africa. http://capi.fido.cz/en (Maps and data still available)
www.greenchannel.com/wwt/wnews_96/wetnews3.htm Tracking of Whooper Swan migration from their Icelandic breeding territories to the wintering grounds at WWT Caerlaverock. (No longer available 10/2005)
The Highland Foundation for Wildlife's website followed the migration of Honey Buzzards and a Marsh Harrier. www.roydennis.org
A satellite-telemetry study of Brent Geese in 2001-2. www.dmu.dk/CoastalZoneEcology/satellite/index_uk.htm
White storks tracked in 2001 as they migrated north from the small population in South Africa www.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/wstork07.htm
Another Stork-tracking project in 2002, a Swiss one: www.sosstorch.ch.
The site is in German, but the maps tell the story.Dr Alan Mortons's mapping software, DMAP, which was used for our migration maps www.dmap.co.uk/
International and UK Osprey sites
The Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at Loch of the Lowes has a regular breeding pair of Ospreys and their website is updated frequently with news of the pair's progress.
The Lake District Osprey project is described on a Forestry Commission website: www.ospreywatch.co.uk
A Glaslyn Osprey Project diary is published on the RSPB Wales website.
In North Wales a local community-based group Friends of the Ospreys have a website where you can see pictures of the nest and other artificial nests erected by the group.
Loch Garten's famous osprey nest is described in words and pictures here.
The most southerly Osprey nest in Scotland is near Wigtown in Galloway and there is a website describing events at that site.
A French Osprey site, balbuzard.lpo.fr has lots of information and pictures about the expanding breeding population in France. There are summaries in English.
Another French site describing Ospreys in the Forest of Orleans: The Association Groupe Pandion
A website (in French) describes the breeding population of Ospreys at Al-Hoceima, Morocco:http://balbuzards.cfsites.org
www.rekel.nl/visarenden is a site run by Ruud Kampf in Holland and includes interesting Osprey pictures and contacts around the world.
Live Osprey pictures from a US nest site at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, a Ramsar site on Maryland's eastern shore.
The Audubon Society of New Hampshire website has some excellent material about an Osprey Project in that part of the states.www.nhaudubon.org/research/nhosprey.htm
The Audubon Center in Milford,Connecticut,USA has live streaming video from an osprey nest. www.ctaudubon.org
Details of non-migratory Ospreys breeding around the Red Sea. www.arabianwildlife.com/archive/vol3.1/prirsea.htm.
The Dennis Puleston Osprey Fund encourages research about Ospreys on Long Island, USA. Superb live and archive video footage. Please note web address is http://puleston.osprey.bnl.org
Other UK and European birding sites
www.fatbirder.com The most comprehensive list of links to UK bird-watching websites
Ralph Hollins' Nature Notes for the Havant Area, Hampshire has lots of Osprey sightings www.havnn.net
Sussex Ornithological Society, including daily sightings www.susos.org.uk
Kent Ornithological Society, including daily sightings www.kentos.org.uk
The United Kingdom section of LIPU, the Italian League for Bird Protection. www.lipu-uk.org
Information about Rothiemurchus Fishery and Fish Farm, one of the best places to watch Ospreys fishing, www.rothiemurchus.net/birdwatching.html
List and details of good birdwatching sites throughout Europe www.eurobirding.co.uk/more.phb
A directory of birding links for the UK www.birding.uk.com
Raptor migration in the Mediterranean area www.raptormigration.org
SEO/BirdLife (in Spanish): RSPB's sister organisation in Spain www.seo.org
Other translocation projects
Golden Eagles are being re-introduced to Ireland from the Scottish population. www.goldeneagle.ie.
The very successful Red Kite re-introduction is described on the English Nature website:
www.english-nature.org.uk/redkite/