[va-richmond-general] Fwd: Migration of Willow Flycatcher

  • From: Larry Robinson <larry.robinson06@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Richmond listserv <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 18:39:48 -0400

I thought this was fascinating!

Larry Robinson

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From: Ivan Miksik <miksik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: Migration of Willow Flycatcher
To: BIRDBAND@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Hello,

it's really amazing!!

In this case it could be important to know exact time of banding as well
as your control.


Regar


Ivan


Ivan Miksik
Czech Republic

www.natureblink.com


> We always speak about amazing migration achievements in Shorebirds. Here I
> want to show you something amazing. You know Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax
> traillii), these little guys can fly from North America to northen South
> America during migration. they weight 14 to15 grs. and they cross through
> where we are, in Minatitlan Veracruz. Yesterday we caught around 120 of
> them, and one was alrededy banded. We checked out, thanks to BBL, found
> this bird was banded in Harrison Illinois, USA on the 30th of August 2014.
> We recaptured it yesterday 1st of september 2014, two days later 2200 km
> away. That means this bird flew about 45 km/hour for 48 hours non stop.
> That it's an achievement.
>
> If somebody have the email of Lee G jonhson, He is the happy bander...I
> would like to enter in contact with him..
>
> All the best
> Manuel
> www.tierradeaves.com
>

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