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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>
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