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.

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »