I probably photographed these bird's ancestors on Fetlar some years ago.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal <m...@cornell.edu>wrote: > A nice story about Red-necked Phalarope. Who knows from where our birds > originate from! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bird Bander's Forum [mailto:birdb...@listserv.ksu.edu] On Behalf Of > Lyndon Kearsley > > > Not seen any news on this amazing migration item on the list and since > this bird used the eastern seaboard flyway presume of interest in the US. > The bird breeds in N Scotland and was tracked using a rump mounted > geolocator over the whole migrztion. Found to have wintered on the coast of > Equador / Peru presumably at sea. Photo of webbed feet below. > > Pasted text below: > > Neat video and map here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25661650 > > see also: > > http://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Tiny_tag_unlocks_secret_to_record-breaking_migration_of_Red-necked_Phalaropes.aspx?s_id=753701389 > > and: http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/channel/newsitem.asp?cate=__15087 > > Distribution: > [image: Inline images 1] > > "A tracking device, which weighs less than a paperclip, has helped > scientists uncover one of the world's great bird migrations. It revealed > that a Scottish Red-necked Phalarope migrated thousands of miles west > across the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, a journey never recorded for any > other European breeding bird. In 2012, the RSPB, working in collaboration > with the Swiss Ornithological Institute and Dave Okill of the Shetland > Ringing Group, fitted individual geolocators to ten phalaropes nesting on > Fetlar (Shetland), in the hope of learning where they spend the winter. > > After successfully recapturing one of the tagged birds when it returned to > Fetlar last spring, experts discovered it had made an epic 16,000-mile > round trip during its annual migration?-?flying from Shetland across the > Atlantic, south down the eastern seaboard of the US, across the Caribbean, > and Mexico, ending up off the coast of Peru. After wintering in the > Pacific, it returned to Fetlar, following a similar route. > > Before this, many experts had assumed that Scottish breeding phalaropes > joined the Scandinavian population at their wintering grounds, thought to > be in the Arabian Sea. Yet the destination of this bird was the Pacific > Ocean. Red-necked Phalarope is one of the UK's rarest breeding birds. It is > now only found in Shetland and the Western Isles, and numbers fluctuate > between just 15 and 50 nesting males. Scotland marks the southern limit of > its breeding range, with the species far more abundant further north where > it occupies wetlands around the northern hemisphere." > > [image: Inline images 2] > -- > Lyndon > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
