The Adventures of 'Piros' the Wayward Hungarian Saker

Piros is a satellite tracked young female, Saker Falcon that has decided to head this way through Spain. Watch out for her heading down this way during peak migration. It's present position is North of Valladolid. You can watch her progress here:
Here's what Sakerlife said:
"As some of you may be aware we are carrying out a four-year satellite-tracking project in order to study juvenile dispersal of Sakers in Hungary and Slovakia. We are in the 3rd year now and we have quite a lot of good data on the movements of our birds. However, this year (probably as the vole population collapsed after the peak) 1cy juveniles started the dispersal sooner as in the last two years and they went further in their first two months after fledging as in previous years. Most of them flew to east to the steppes - their typical habitat.

However, not all of them did that. The most interesting move has been done by 'Piros' a 1cy female from West-Hungary! She made it to Spain! Until now we have only one ring recovery from south of France (1cy Saker crashed to an airplane) proving that sometimes Sakers from the Carpathian Basin can make that far. That suggests that Saker observations in Spain or in France may be quite normal - not common though - and not necessarily goes for escaped falconry birds. It also suggest that occurrence of species far from breeding range may be quite normal even if they seem to be unusual. I know I do not say anything new, I just would like to present another confirmation of that."

Now it will be interesting to see where she goes now. Will she make it to Africa? Or does she return to Hungary? Or will she make some entirely different move? I suggest you to keep checking our map:

http://www.sakerlife.mme.hu/hu/gmap (Click on the red coloured bird on the right, the top one. Choose "Pios" from the menu. Wait and a Google map with the track location and flight record should appear!

Have fun,

Stephen
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