[TN-Bird] Northern Wheatear transatlantic migration

From: Marcus Simpson <marcusb@xxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Bird List <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tn-bird-bounce <tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:51:48 -0500
Very interesting article posted on-line this morning in the Royal Society's 
Biology Letters. Using 1.2 g light-level geolocators, investigators tracked 
tagged northern wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe) from Alaska to their 
overwintering area in sub-Saharan Africa, a distance of approximately 14,500 km 
each way, requiring for some a 3,500 km crossing of the north Atlantic. This is 
among the latest studies using these increasingly miniaturized tracking devices 
to discover migration and dispersal behaviors at a level not previously 
possible.

 Check the full report at:

< http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/ > and select "Global migration of 
wheaters" for the full text.

Mark

Marcus Simpson
Hendersonville, NC

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