Date: 10/25/2017

Number: 10000

Monarch Monitoring 2017

More than 300 Monarch per minute!

12:30 PM 30-50 per min
5:10 pm. 160-200 per min
5:40 pm. 250-300 per min
6:00 pm. I'm no longer sure how many, thousands of them fly to rest in the sanctuaries of Michoacán and state of Mexico.

Foto por Omar Ranco Reyes
25 de octubre de 2017

Amanecer con frio y un despertar saturado de Monarcas en La Huasteca, Santa Catarina, NL-México.

Dawn with cold and a wake-up of monarchs in la huasteca, Santa Catarina, NL-Mexico.

Editor's Note: Assuming an average rate of 200 monarchs per minute, an estimated 10,000 monarchs were counted during this 50 minute period.

Santa Catarina, NLE

Latitude: 25.6 Longitude: -100.5

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