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Scientists track bar-tailed godwits on marathon migration to and from Alaska
By GEORGE BRYSON Anchorage Daily News
Published: March 31st, 2008 12:02 AM
Last Modified: March 31st, 2008
http://www.adn.com/front/story/360937.html
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Godwit watcher in for the long haul
The Nelson Mail - Nelson,New Zealand
Working for two months in damp, freezing conditions to monitor birds would not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but for Marlborough Sounds-based ornithologist Rob Schuckard it was a dream come true.
He was with a core group of four, camping in the Yukon Kuskokwim Refuge, a reserve slightly smaller than the North Island, here the bar-tailed godwits breed …
Sadly, the population of bar-tailed godwits is in steep decline, dropping from about 155,000 in the 1990s to an estimated 90,000 today.
Schuckard said seeing and hearing the courtship activities of godwits on the breeding grounds, with their noisy aerial displays, was incredible.
…He arrived in Alaska on April 24, when temperatures were well below 0degC, in time to see flocks of godwits arrive. The first godwits were seen on May 7, with up to 300 birds passing through daily. [...]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/4624144a19260.html