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Post by jim on Mar 27, 2023 20:58:42 GMT 12
I watched a few of these on their Tracker late last year leaving Alaska and heading down here for our "summer" - pretty impressive - i recall one left late and had to deal with storms , headwinds and allsorts then knuckled down to average 55 kph for 13 days non-stop.https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=587478166748337&set=a.549121160584038
Makes a lot of us humans look pretty pitiful
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Post by jim on Mar 27, 2023 21:08:50 GMT 12
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Post by Fogg on Mar 28, 2023 9:41:10 GMT 12
Which birds are these (I can’t see the species anywhere)?
I’ve always thought the whole bird migration thing is amazing. Not just the distances eg Alaska to NZ non-stop by little birds not big guys. But also the navigation. They manage to maintain course through a combination of sun, stars and even a faint magnetic instinct for when cloud is covering the sky. They’re smarter than we think!
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Post by jim on Mar 28, 2023 13:38:24 GMT 12
The Bar Tailed Godwit from the first link www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=587478166748337&set=a.549121160584038. Their are quite a few people relaying info from the ground , with some fascinating background stories on some of the individual birds eg on the way back from alaska one of them stopped off in New Caledonia for a couple of days then Tasmania for almost a week of R and R then back across to Miranda to catch up with the main flock |
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