----- Original Message ----- From: Smith, Fletcher M To: Smith, Fletcher M Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 8:15 PM Subject: Whimbrel update (Postel in French Guiana) We have tracked a whimbrel to French Guiana (see attached map), which is likely a bad place for a shorebird to be (http://www.arubewithaview.com/blog/2012/8/26/the-challege-of-the-rice-fields-of-mana.html). The bird arrived in coastal Suriname earlier today and has flown almost the entire French Guiana coastline towards Brazil. The last "hits" from the satellite tag indicated that the bird was still in flight and only 30 miles (maybe 1 hour?) from the Brazilian border where the bird will presumably be safe. This bird flew 2,600 miles non-stop in about 85 hours from Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina to coastal South America. We won't know the final landing spot for 2 days due to the duty cycle of the transmitter. This whimbrel was captured and tagged this past spring by our partners at Georgia Department of Natural Resources (Non-game division) with the assistance of The Center for Conservation Biology and Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. The broader tracking project is a collaborative effort between the aforementioned groups and The Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Canadian Wildlife Service, and the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program. Fletcher Smith Research Biologist The Center for Conservation Biology The College of William and Mary/Virginia Commonwealth University Williamsburg, VA
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