Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: [BIRDBAND] Tracked Red-necked Phalarope from Scotland

2014-01-15 Thread John Cancalosi
I probably photographed these bird's ancestors on Fetlar some years ago.


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal 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]
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[cayugabirds-l] FW: [BIRDBAND] Tracked Red-necked Phalarope from Scotland

2014-01-15 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
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]
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Lyndon

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