Earlier in the year we GPS tagged two Lesser Kestrel juveniles, and now we're ready to show you our findings! The results have come as a surprise to the experts at DEMA who worked with us on this project, so we're excited to show this information to you all!

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00:00 Intro
01:00 Ecology
02:31 Our Project

🧐 ABOUT THIS VIDEO
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In our latest project we're spending a little over 10,000€ to tag four Lesser Kestrel juveniles. This year the first two of them were tagged and soon fledged the nest! The current GPS data from their flights tell two very different stories, one adhering to expectations and one throwing it all to the wind...

Typically organisations avoid tagging juvenile birds, as their high mortality compared to adults means there's a higher chance of incomplete data, but that means there's a big gap in our knowledge of how younger birds behave. As the first organisation (that we're aware of) to tag Lesser Kestrel juveniles, we saw this as an opportunity to break new ground rather than a risk!

Find out more on our project page here: https://mossy.earth/projects/lesser-kestrels-gps-tagging