March 30th, 2015
Great Knot migration
For those of you who follow the GFN latest news page (and I admit it is sometimes a while between posts!) will perhaps be wondering what our cohort of Great Knot and Bar-tailed Godwits with satellite transmitters had been up to since the last posting some months ago. more »
April 30th, 2014
More excitement from Bohai Bay 2014
Oh, what a 10 days it had been. Shorebird numbers continue to rise on the mudflats and in the saltpans as birds pile in from throughout Asia and Australasia. We have had some excellent scanning in the last week, comfortably some of the best we have ever had in April.
September 8th, 2008
Report on the travels and status of NW Australian satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits
Please remember when reading the information below that this is not the ‘final story’, these are the initial findings and may change when the final analysis is done. We also ‘join the dots’ between each signal, however the birds are so skilled at navigating that this is most likely the route they travel.
Dear Godwit watchers
This is another brief update as things are getting very interesting and exciting as our birds arrive back in the bay on the final southward leg of their migration.
Updates on each individual bird
All times have been worked out to WA time. more »
September 1st, 2008
Report on the travels and status of NW Australian satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits
Please remember when reading the information below that this is not the ‘final story’, these are the initial findings and may change when the final analysis is done. We also ‘join the dots’ between each signal, however the birds are so skilled at navigating that this is most likely the route they travel.
Dear Godwit watchers
This is a brief update on the final southward leg for four of our wonderful Bar-tailed Godwits. more »
August 8th, 2008
Report on the travels and status of NW Australian satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits
Please remember when reading the information below that this is not the ‘final story’, these are the initial findings and may change when the final analysis is done. We also ‘join the dots’ between each signal, however the birds are so skilled at navigating that this is most likely the route they travel.
Dear Godwit watchers
The birds in the Yellow Sea August 5th. Image: © 2008 USGS.
This is possibly the last or last but one update as one of two things will happen soon, either the batteries will run out of power on the transmitters or all the birds will be back in Roebuck Bay!
In summary we have 8 birds alive in the Yellow Sea, on southward migration, with the batteries for the transmitters still working, 3 birds in Roebuck Bay (they never left), 1 battery has run out of power, we have lost contact with 1 bird and 2 have died. more »
July 16th, 2008
Report on the travels and status of NW Australian satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits
Please remember when reading the information below that this is not the ‘final story’, these are the initial findings and may change when the final analysis is done. We also ‘join the dots’ between each signal, however the birds are so skilled at navigating that this is most likely the route they travel.
Dear Godwit watchers
This is another update now that we have birds already on return migration and back at Yalu Jiang in the northern Yellow Sea on the China/North Korea border.
In summary we have 2 birds alive and on southward migration, 7 birds alive on the New Siberian Islands, 3 in Roebuck Bay (they never left) and we have lost contact with 1 bird and 2 have died. more »
June 22nd, 2008
Report on the travels and status of NW Australian satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits
Please remember when reading the information below that this is not the ‘final story’, these are the initial findings and may change when the final analysis is done. We also ‘join the dots’ between each signal, however the birds are so skilled at navigating that this is most likely the route they travel.
Dear Godwit watchers
This is just a brief update and includes some bad news in regard to 2 of our birds.
In summary we have nine birds alive on the Siberian Breeding grounds. Three are still in Roebuck Bay and we have lost contact with one bird and 2 have died. Four birds are heading to or have arrived at the New Siberian Islands (NSI) just as Pavel Tomkovich predicted. more »
June 3rd, 2008
Report on the travels and status of NW Australian satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits
Please remember when reading the information below that this is not the ‘final story’, these are the initial findings and may change when the final analysis is done. We also ‘join the dots’ between each signal, however the birds are so skilled at navigating that this is most likely the route they travel.
Dear Godwit watchers
I am sorry for the long delay between updates on the fantastic satellite implanted godwits. I hope you have been able to keep up with their travels. I have been in South Korea assisting the Saemangeum Shorebird Monitoring Project SSMP and searching for bands and flags at every available opportunity and have had limited access to the internet. Unfortunately I missed all but the first and last birds leaving the Yellow Sea and heading to Siberia. However you can imagine how thrilled I was when I connected to the internet at Singapore Airport and saw all those coloured lines on the breeding grounds! more »
April 27th, 2008
Report on the travels and status of NW Australian satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits
Please remember when reading the information below that this is not the ‘final story’, these are the initial findings and may change when the final analysis is done. We also ‘join the dots’ between each signal, however the birds are so skilled at navigating that this is most likely the route they travel.
Dear Godwit watchers
I will be leaving for South Korea on Wednesday evening April 30th (taking a plane not flying myself) and so I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on the progress of the Broome Bar-tailed Godwits with the satellite transmitters.
In summary we have ten birds on the Chinese coast, one on the North Korea coast, three in Roebuck Bay and we have lost contact with one bird. more »
April 17th, 2008
Update on satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits from NW Australia
Please remember when reading the information below that this is not the ‘final story’, these are the initial findings and may change when the final analysis is done. We also ‘join the dots’ between each signal, however the birds are so skilled at navigating that this is most likely the route they travel.
Dear All
Here is an update on the Broome Bar-tailed Godwits. We now have twelve birds in China or on their way there, one bird has decided to go south! And two are still in Roebuck Bay although C0 has been walkabout and returned so only one has yet to leave at all.
H8, our only male carrying a transmitter, is on the northern coast of the Yellow Sea in or near the Yalu Jiang National Nature Reserve. He probably arrived there on April 12th. This is where the NZ birds that migrated are also fattening for the next leg of their journey. He is approx 6500km north of Roebuck Bay. more »
