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Of Godwits and Records

from [Geoffrey Dabb] [Permanent Link][Original]
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Subject: Of Godwits and Records
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:13:59 +1000

These were some of the Bar-tailed Godwits at the estuary at Narooma last week.  I don’t know whether they were new arrivals or (more probably) over-winterers of the group that Marnix occasionally reports on

 

godwits Js_6154.jpg

 

From: Esme Barker and Bruce Ramsay [
Sent: Monday, 17 September 2007 10:07 PM
To: Canberrabirds; BESGroup
Subject: [canberrabirds] Of Godwits and Records

 

The below news story is from today's Science Daily . The same story is presented with a bit of a different focus at the Birdlife International website - http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2007/09/godwit_records.html

Bruce

 

Bird Completes Epic Flight Across The Pacific

A female bar-tailed godwit, a large, streamlined shorebird, has touched down in New Zealand following an epic, 18,000-mile-long (29,000 km) series of flights tracked by satellite, including the longest non-stop flight recorded for a land bird.

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