About to depart; latest Grey Plover update.

In the past few weeks, we continued to observe Charlie concentrating its movement around the northern shore of the lake, which is about 2km to the northeast of its nesting area. Charlie has now arrived at the nesting area for 50 days, of which 28 days were spent on laying and incubating the eggs.

Charlie’s young should now be around 3 weeks old. We expect Charlie to leave its independent young very soon and start its journey back to non-breeding area in the south. Its young will follow a few weeks later.

Let’s get ready for the southward migration excitement!

Fig 1. Movement of Charlie away from the nesting area (shaded white) in July

Day 29-49: 1st – 21st July

The migration route of our birds is shown in the map below:

Ecosure (white), Mymi (red), Nad (blue) and Charlie (orange)

Distance travelled by our Grey Plover since departing Broome:

Name	Leg Flag	Distance travelled
Ecosure	LLA	4,650km
Mymi	LLH	4,300km
Nad	LLJ	10,942km
Charlie	LLK	10,642km

The Grey Plover project team:

Katherine Leung

Clive Minton

Ken Gosbell

Chris Hassell

Grace Maglio

Inka Veltheim

Maureen Christie

22 July 2016