Date: 09/12/2017

Number: 200

My supervisor on the Benedictine Bottoms Wildlife Area (KDWP&T), which is just northeast of Atchison, KS, informed me this morning (September 13) that he had flushed a large concentration of Monarchs (200+) out of a cottonwood tree as he drove past it this morning on the wildlife area. I did not see them, but I was just south of there across the Missouri River tagging Monarchs at the same time and there was a large push of Monarchs coming out of the northeast all morning. My supervisor did not take a picture of them, but I will try to get one this evening if the roost sets up again.

Editor's Note: This roost was discovered the morning of September 13th. We are dating the report September 12th, the night it presumably formed.

Atchison, KS

Latitude: 39.6 Longitude: -95.1

Observed by: Nelson
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