For your interest, a forwarded message (for non-Australian readers - Moreton
Bay is in se Queensland, eastern Australia):
>Author: "MAKI KOYAMA"<> at Internet
>Date: 24/3/98 11:18 AM
>
>Hi, all
>
>One of the nine eastern curlews that had transmitters mounted for satellite
>tracking at the Morton Bay at the end of January was seen at the Yoshino
>Estuary, one of the two SRN sites in Japan, on 21 March. The curlew was
>videotaped and the pictures of it was in today's local papers.
>
>It took the bird about two weeks to get here (departed the Morton Bay on 6
>March).
>
>We are all pretty excited about the news! We'd always thought that it'd be
>a fat chance for those birds to be tracked down (up?) to Japan!
>
>Best regards,
>
>Maki
>
>Environment Agency of Japan
Hugo Phillipps,
Birds Australia Conservation & Liaison,
Australian Bird Research Centre,
415 Riversdale Road,
Hawthorn East, VIC 3123, Australia.
Tel: (03) 9882 2622. Fax: (03) 9882 2677.
O/s: +61 3 9882 2622. Fax: +61 3 9882 2677.
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