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Index of Subjects --001a1149292a2a2a5a0537870021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Well done! How can we know that it's offspring might come to NS? George Forsyth On 12 July 2016 at 11:23, Larry Bogan <larry@bogan.ca> wrote: > I finally got around to checking the Monarch Watch list of tags found in > Mexico for the 2015 season. We have been tagging for several years and have > never had a return BUT this year one of our tags was retrieved in El > Rosario, Mexico. > http://monarchwatch.org/tagmig/recoveries.htm (The El Rosario Butterfly > Preserve is 110 km west Mexico City) > > Monach UGL-881 was released on 29 August 2015 from our home at Brooklyn > Corners, Kings County, Nova Scotia along with four other Monarchs. It was a > female. Her tag was recovered on 6th of March 2016. We had tagged four of > the five Monarchs that day. All total we tagged 50 Monarchs of 75 raised > last year. UGL-881 was the ninth Monarch we released last year and the > seventh one tagged. Interestingly, our tags ranged from UGL-875 thru > UGL-824 and UGL-881 was the only UGL tag found this year. The distance > between our home and the El Rosario Reserve is a great circle distance of > 4330 km . > > This answers some questions that we have had. Do our Monarchs go all the > way to Mexico or head for Florida? Can they make it all the way to Mexico > from Nova Scotia? Are we really contributing to the maintenance of the > migration of Monarch? > > This has encouraged us to continue our yearly efforts in raising Monarch > above and beyond what can survive in the wild. > > ////// === /////// > Larry Bogan > Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia > <larry@bogan.ca> > --001a1149292a2a2a5a0537870021 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Well done! How can we know that it's offspring mi= ght come to NS?<br><br></div>George Forsyth<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_ex= tra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 12 July 2016 at 11:23, Larry Bogan <= span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:larry@bogan.ca" target=3D"_blank">la= rry@bogan.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" sty= le=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I fina= lly got around to checking the Monarch Watch list of tags found in Mexico f= or the 2015 season. We have been tagging for several years and have never h= ad a return BUT this year one of our tags was retrieved in El Rosario, Mexi= co.<br> <a href=3D"http://monarchwatch.org/tagmig/recoveries.htm" rel=3D"noreferrer= " target=3D"_blank">http://monarchwatch.org/tagmig/recoveries.htm</a>=C2=A0= (The El Rosario Butterfly Preserve is 110 km west Mexico City)<br> <br> Monach UGL-881 was released on 29 August 2015 from our home at Brooklyn Cor= ners, Kings County, Nova Scotia along with four other Monarchs. It was a fe= male. Her tag was recovered on 6th of March 2016. We had tagged four of the= five Monarchs that day. All total we tagged 50 Monarchs of 75 raised last = year. UGL-881 was the ninth Monarch we released last year and the seventh o= ne tagged. Interestingly, our tags ranged from UGL-875 thru UGL-824 and UGL= -881 was the only UGL tag found this year.=C2=A0 The distance between our h= ome and the El Rosario Reserve is a great circle distance of 4330 km .<br> <br> This answers some questions that we have had. Do our Monarchs go all the wa= y to Mexico or head for Florida?=C2=A0 Can they make it all the way to Mexi= co from Nova Scotia? Are we really contributing to the maintenance of the m= igration of Monarch?<br> <br> This has encouraged us to continue our yearly efforts in raising Monarch ab= ove and beyond what can survive in the wild.<br> <br> ////// =3D=3D=3D ///////<br> <span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888">Larry Bogan<br> Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia<br> <larry@bogan.ca><br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br></div> --001a1149292a2a2a5a0537870021--
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