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Migration: Raptors / Fall
The Peregrine Chick:
Just has a look at the migration numbers at Veracruz's "River of Raptors" site ...
On August 30th there were 32,009 Mississippi Kites counted by 3 people over a 10 hour (0900-1900h) period :o
That was just over half of ALL the Mississippi Kites counted this season!! And by the 30th, they had only been "open" for 10 days ...
By comparison, on September 2nd, there were only 2,771 counted.
Aug 20 3 Aug 21 0 Aug 22 0 Aug 23 0 Aug 24 141 Aug 25 10 Aug 26 232 Aug 27 4,156 Aug 28 11,151 Aug 29 25,259 Aug 30 32,009 Aug 31 19,717 Sep 01 1,189 Sep 02 2,771 To-date 96,641
The Peregrine Chick:
Raptor Fall Migration 2016 has started ... first to move are always the Mississippi Kites ..
Corpus Christi Hawk Watch
* up to & including Aug 24 - 442
* Aug 25 - 2,291
* Aug 26 - 3,322
* Aug 27 - 7,570
* Aug 28 - 6,322
Total Mississippi Kites to-date at this site = 19,947
All other raptor species at this site to-date = 265 - including 3 American Kestrels, 2 Merlins, 2 Peregrines & 1 Prairie Falcon
Next through in big numbers should be the Broad-winged Hawks as I recall ....
To follow the raptor migration numbers - https://www.hawkcount.org/
Alison:
Migration counts for over 275 sites are shown at the link below. From September 19 to 27, 2015, 1,371,966 raptors were counted from 107 sites. Wow!
https://www.hawkcount.org/
The Peregrine Chick:
Good news is that our birds are still around - adults and chicks. Bad news is that likely they won't be here for long.
From the folks at HawkWatch - the broad-winged hawks are starting to move pretty much everywhere and over 2600 Mississippi Kites have already gone through Corpus Christi. This seems early to me but I'll have to do some checking to be sure of this ...
The Peregrine Chick:
Oct 2nd @ Whytewold - fewer raptors, more peregrines
Sharp-shinned Hawk 358 Red-tailed Hawk 206 Bald Eagle 47 Broad-winged Hawk 45 Turkey Vulture 31 Coopers Hawk 21 American Kestrel 17 Peregrine Falcon 8 Northern Harrier 2 Merlin 2 Osprey 2
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