18/05/2016
Glimpsing of the White-tailed Sea Eagle, Flying Thousands of Miles
On March 9th , 2014, a white-tailed eagle named Lulu was released after recovery by Shenyang Raptor Saving Center, with a bird satellite transmitter(from Hunan Global Messenger Technology Co., Ltd.) deployed on its back . Lulu with its backpack—our first product HQBP3527, finished its first flying after releasing, hovering up the sky.
Lulu started from Liaoning Province, China, and then migrated northward to the estuary of Khatanga River towards the Arctic Ocrean in southeast Taymyr Peninsula, Russia, and laid eggs and brooded it, increasing the population. And then back to the wintering land in the winter of 2014, which is in the rich land of China, the Northeast Plain, in Liaoning Province. The total journey it flight more than 12,000 kilometers, passing by Great Khingan, crossing the border between China and Russia, skimming over Lake Baikal, flying over Central Siberian Plateau, the highest flying speed reaches to 109.7 kilometers per hour.
More than one year tracking, the transmitter HQBP3527 powered with solar energy companied Lulu all the time and meanwhile sent back migrated data of Lulu, including flying time, height, and accurate latitude and longt5itude and so on.
This spring, Lulu with powerful transmitter left Liaoning Province again, flying towards north, now it has been in Russia, and about one or two months later, it will fly to the south and back to its wintering land—Liaoning Province, China, and full loaded satellite tracking data. We are looking forward to Lulu’s returning again in 2015.
According to these data, the important stay point,migration course, breeding rules, and daily activity can be analyzed clearly, which provides useful information to the protection of white-tailed eagle, what’s more, it also provides credible data for scientific research of this eagle. Furthermore, it not only provides important data for experts researching individual birds ecology, genecology, birds migration rule, and plague transmission and so on, but also make sense to eco-protection and eco-planning.
