More news about the migration of the Grey Plovers fitted with satellite tags in Australia has reached us via Grace Maglio from the Australian Wader Study Group team.
Mymi
(LLH) is more than 2,400km away from Broome, and is now in the northern
hemisphere on its migration. It is again using a similar route to the other
three birds flying over Borneo, with an average speed of 37kph, slightly slower
than the other three birds which travelled at a speed of 46kph.
Grey Plover is not limited to coastal area, Nad is
migrating inland.
We are still hearing no
news from Ecosure (LLA) in the last transmission cycle but our other three
birds are moving on.
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Mymi's migration route. |
Nad (LLJ) has migrated 1,200km further northeast to
reach Yancheng Nature Reserve in Jiangsu Province on 20th April 2016 evening. It
seem that it just stayed for a couple of hours and then decided to move on at
midnight. We will find out where its next destination is on the next
transmission cycle in two days time.
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Nad’s inland migration |
Charlie (LLK) is comparatively more stationary and is
still in Guangdong Province. It is now about 19km northeast from where it first
landed, using a fishpond area about 5km inland from the coast.
The migration route
of our birds is shown in the map below:
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Ecosure (white),
Mymi (red), Nad (blue) and Charlie (orange)
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The Grey Plover project team:
Katherine Leung
Clive Minton
Ken Gosbell
Chris Hassell
Grace Maglio
Inka Veltheim
Maureen Christie
22 April 2016
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