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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