Exciting News from Mexico

We recently learned that 12 monarchs tagged in Cape May during the fall of 2015 were found the following winter at the El Rosario Sanctuary in Michoacan, Mexico.  This brings our all-time total up to 70.  Most monarchs at the Mexican Sanctuaries can't be inspected for tags, so each one that is found probably represents many more that made the journey.  This exciting news help motivate us for the coming field season, which begins in just a few days, on September 1.

Monarch tagged in Cape May in 2016.  We probably won't hear about
any 2016 recoveries until next year.

Here are details of the 2015 recoveries, all found at El Rosario in Mexico:

UME 026 was tagged by Lindsey Brendel at the Triangle Park on Sept. 13
UMG 053 was tagged by Katie Burns at the Triangle Park on Sept. 13
UMJ 157 was tagged by Sue Slotterback at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor on Sept. 16
UML 033 was tagged by Mark Garland at 400 Coral Ave. on Sept. 16
UMH 105 was tagged by Lu Ann Daniels at the Pavilion Circle on Sept. 17
UMH 115 was tagged by Lu Ann Daniels at the Pavilion Circle on Sept. 17
UMG 172 was tagged by Katie Burns at 400 Coral Ave. on Sept. 21
UNR 908 was tagged by Gayle Steffy at the Triangle Park on Sept. 21
UME 242 was tagged by Lindsey Brendel at our tagging demo on Sept. 24
UME 327 was tagged by Lindsey Brendel at 218 Alexander Ave. on Oct. 6
UMG 611 was tagged by Katie Burns on the beach at Whilldin Ave. on Oct. 16
UMH 006 was tagged by Paige Cunningham at our tagging demo on Oct. 17

We're going through the recovery records to see if any others have been recently reported.  We're also checking the adoption records -- but if you adopted a monarch in 2015, you might check the tag number of your adoptee and let us know if one of yours was found!