[wisb] Re: Whimbrel tracking
- From: Ryan Brady <ryanbrady10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <noel.cutright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:17:04 -0600
A subsequent update from Fletcher (a graduate of Northland College here in
Ashland by the way) on Pingo indicated the bird skirted the edge of the storm,
was only minimally affected, and as of Wed night was "only" about 300 miles
from making landfall in French Guiana or Brazil. At about 30 miles per hour
the bird should have safely reached land mid-day yesterday.
Ryan Brady
Washburn, Bayfield County, WI
http://www.pbase.com/rbrady
> From: Noel.Cutright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: noelc.kater@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [wisb] Whimbrel tracking
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:07:54 +0000
>
> Fletcher Smith, of William & Mary's Center for Conservation Biology writes:
>
> One of the Whimbrels ("Pingo") that we satellite tagged this summer (in
> collaboration with the Canadian Wildlife Service) in the Mackenzie River
> Delta is currently migrating from Nova Scotia to points south and has just
> entered Tropical Depression 9 (soon to be Hurricane Isaac). This bird began
> migration on 18 August and has flown 2200 miles so far before hitting this
> storm, with at least another 1000 miles to go to make landfall.
>
> Pingo is entering the northeast quadrant of the storm, which seems to be how
> Whimbrels tackle these events, and we expect this bird (based on previous
> Whimbrel routes) to fly towards the center of the storm and then use the
> southwest quadrant (and the tailwinds that quadrant produces) as a boost
> towards landfall. Last fall "Hope" the Whimbrel took 27 hours and averaged
> 9mph flying through a similar sized storm, and then flew an average of 92mph
> for 1.5 hours out the back end towards land!
>
> We can only hope that the bird does not land in Guadeloupe, Martinique,
> French Guiana, or any other countries with a shorebird hunt. We also know
> that many thousands of shorebirds will be forced to land in such places due
> to the timing and size of this storm. I used to get nervous about the birds
> entering the storms and wondered if they could make it through, now I've come
> to realize it's not the storms, it's where you land.
>
> The following is a recent press release for 3 other tracked Whimbrels and has
> a map of their routes. Noel Cutright, Ozaukee County
>
> http://ccb-wm.org/news/pressreleases_pdfs/20120814_whimbrel.pdf
>
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