Archive for April, 2010
Exciting Results from Geolocator Trials on Ruddy Turnstones
Migration route recorded by geolocator for Ruddy Turnstone with leg flag 9Y. This bird departed Flinders (Victoria) 27 April, 2009 and returned 8 December, 2009 after a journey of 27,000kms.
Latest Report 29th March 2010:
We apologise to VWSG members, and others on our world-wide circulation list, for the long time it has taken to provide full feedback on the results of our geolocator trials over the past year on Ruddy Turnstone. Although we retrieved the last three geolocators in early January it has taken until now to fully tease out of the stored data the full information on where birds were during the period they were carrying the geolocators.
The exciting results have been well worth waiting for and we detail some of them below….Read full report.
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