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[Elizabeth.Ciuzio@xxxxxx]

Take a closer look at shorebirds this fall and spring.
 
Beth Ciuzio
KDFWR 
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: Brad_Andres@xxxxxxx [mailto:Brad_Andres@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 11:28 AM
Subject: Shorebird radio frequencies and color-marks from Barrow, AK



I'm a grad student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks working with Rick
Lanctot (FWS Migratory Birds in Anchorage) on a post-breeding shorebird
project in Barrow, Alaska.  We've radioed a number of birds up here this
summer, including 6 Western Sandpipers, 3 Dunlin, 2 Semipalmated
Sandpipers, and several Red Phalaropes.  I have contacted biologists see 
if anyone on the west coast or interior US is listening for radios during 
fall migration and might hear these birds.  I can forward an Excel file 
with the frequencies and dates the birds were tagged/last heard in Barrow, 
if you might be interested in searching for these birds. 

It would be great to have an idea when and where these birds go after they 
leave Barrow.  I'm most interested in the western sandpipers because of the
intense telemetry effort that occurs during their spring migration.  Birds
from here in Barrow may go south along the west coast or east coast or
down the interior (stopping at Cheyenne Bottoms) - we don't have any idea.

All of the birds (150 total; perhaps 50 WESAs) I've captured during
staging up here this summer are also color banded as follows:
-/orange:metal/1 or 2 color bands (captured on or before 21 August) -/1 or
2 color bands:metal/orange (captured after 21 August)
The color bands would be 1 or 2 of the following: red, yellow, light
green, dark green, or dark blue.  These colors correspond to the date the
bird was captured in Barrow so we can estimate turnover times.  It might
be more likely that someone would see a banded bird at one of the
stopovers along the southbound migration routes.

Please let me know what you think; thanks in advance for your help!

Cheers -
Audrey

Audrey Taylor
AK Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Institute for Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
907.474.6052
ftart@xxxxxxx 
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