TVO supports Samu's tracking

​Samu's migration can be tracked on the website of the Finnish Museum of Natural History at the University of Helsinki, at http://www.luomus.fi/en/satellite-osprey-samueland in Facebook at www.facebook.com/samusatelliittisaaksi

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Satellite osprey Samu

In the summer of 2014, a work group operating in West Finland in the joint satellite osprey project of the Finnish Museum of Natural History and the Osprey Foundation fitted a satellite transmitter on a male osprey that nested on the west coast of Finland and fished along the shores of the Bothnian Sea.

The bird was called Samu after Eurajoki-born Samuel Roos, who invented the Finnish word for electricity ("sähkö"). Samu nested in Eurajoki in the summer of 2014. When the satellite transmitter was fitted on Samu, he had one chick in the nest. Samu himself was ringed in 2007 as a nestling in the town of Laitila in Southwest Finland, some 50 km south of his nesting site in 2014.

Satellite osprey Samu is part of an extensive research project that focuses on studying the zoological aspects of the migration and the fishing sites of ospreys. The scientific leader of the project is Professor Pertti Saurola.

The website of the Museum of Natural History gives the public an opportunity to track Samu's travels during migration and in its wintering location. Tracking is made possible by the satellite transmitter fitted on Samu; the satellite connections of the transmitter are recorded on a map. Power supply to the transmitter is provided by a small solar panel integrated in it.

The acquisition of the transmitter for satellite osprey Samu, and the whole project, has been supported by Teollisuuden Voima Oyj, a producer of nuclear power in Olkiluoto in Eurajoki; the Harjavalta hydropower plant of Länsi-Suomen Voima Oy in River Kokemäenjoki; and the local Eura and Eurajoki-based electricity company Paneliankosken Voima Oy.

Enjoy your trip with Samu the Satellite Osprey! (Photo: Jouko Kivelä)