Tracking Suwannee

Friends of the Lower Suwannee & Cedar Keys NWRs provided support to tag Suwannee, a male Swallow-tailed Kite with a transmitter that tracks his migration from the Refuge to his wintering area in Brazil and back for approximately 2 years or whenever the transmitter stops working.

Audubon's Story of Suwannee with Real-time Tracking
​'The Secret Lives of Swallow-tailed Kites' 

 Friends Blog Posts About Suwannee

• 11/16/20 Our Kite, Suwannee, Appears After Long Silence
• 10/3/20 Suwannee Update
• 7/13/20 Where's Suwannee?
• 5/25/20 Update on Suwannee and Other Feathered Friends
• 9/14/19 Suwannee Arrived in Colombia
• 8/28/19 Suwannee, the Swallow-tailed Kite, in the Press
• 8/21/19 Tracking "Suwannee" the Swallow-tailed Kite
• 8/16/19 Our Swallow-tailed Kite, Suwannee
• 7/16/19 Swallow-tailed Kites Prepare to Migrate
• 5/24/19 Swallow-tailed Kites on the Refuge