Whimbrel
Photo from Mike Baird (Flickr Creative Commons)
“This discovery sets a new distance record in the flight range of this species and highlights the hemispheric importance of the Delmarva Peninsula as a staging area for migratory shorebirds. The flight documented this spring challenges some long-held assumptions and raises several new questions about Whimbrel ecology.” – Bryan Watts, Director of the Center for Conservation Biology.
As these transmitters get smaller and lighter, this sort of tracking will prove crucial to all sorts of migrant birds and bird conservation. Read the entire article from W&M News.
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Highfive to that Whimbrel!
Wow. So amazing! Reminds me of the movie, “Winged Migration,” which was visually stunning & wonderfully informative.
Mon@rch – totally!!
Lana – Winged Migration was AMAZING and highly recommended to EVERYONE.