From: "David Melville" <>
Date: 11 April 2006 7:28:53 PM
To: <>, "BIRDING-NZ" <BIRDING-
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Subject: Colour-banded godwits from NZ - summary so far
Please see the following from Phil
Cheers
David
Dear all,
Attached please find a summary of the godwits colour-banded in NZ
that have
been seen in Asia on migration already. With 13 combinations
confirmed, this
is a wonderful result! There seems to be an unusually high
proportion of
North Island birds in South Korea so far. Are South Island birds
stopping
somewhere else or heading right up to the Chinese part of the
Yellow Sea?
Please forward these records to any observers whose e-mail
addresses I do
not have.
Kind regards and masy the very good spotting continue, Phil Battley
___________________________________
Phil Battley
Dept of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Otago
POSTAL ADDRESS
49 Mack Place
Papakura
South Auckland 1703
New Zealand
Phone +64 9 298 9011
www.nzshorebirds.com
International sightings, NZ colour-banded Bar-tailed Godwits, 2006
(1) 1RWYB. Chongming Island, Yangtze River, China, 30
March 2006. Zhang Kejia and coworkers. Captured, photographed and
released. Banded 22 October 2004 as an adult male, Avon-Heathcote
Estuary, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand.
(2) 4YWBB. Jeju Island, South Korea, 1 April 2006. Kan
Chang-wan and Kim Eun-mee. Seen and photographed. Banded 2 February
2006 as an adult male (418 g, so already putting on weight), Manawatu
Estuary, North Island, New Zealand. Seen there by Ian Saville on 4
and 17 March 2006, so maximum travel time of 15 days.
(3) 2WBBY. Gan-no-su, Wajiro tidal flat, Fukuoka,
Japan, 2 April 2006. Kouji Takenaka. Seen and photographed in flock
of 15 birds also including a New Zealand-flagged bird. Banded 17
November 2004 as an adult female, Firth of Thames, North Island, New
Zealand. Last seen in NZ on 22 March 2006, giving a maximum travel
time of 11 days from NZ to Japan.
(4) 4YYWW. Mangyeung River (Saemangeum), South Korea,
3 April 2006. Phil Battley, Nial Moores, John Geale. Banded 1
February 2006 as an adult male, Manawatu Estuary, North Island, New
Zealand.
(5) 2YRRW. Keum River, South Korea, 3 April 2006. Phil
Battley, Nial Moores, John Geale, Kevin & Kelly White. Banded 21
September 2004 as an adult female at the Firth of Thames, very light
(264 g). Subsequently seen in the Bay of Plenty in NZ so had probably
stopped short of its destination to refuel.
(6) Possibly 2WYBY. Keum River, South Korea, 3 April
2006. Phil Battley, Nial Moores, John Geale, Kevin & Kelly White.
Combination not confirmed.
(7) 2YRRW. Keum River, South Korea, 4 April 2006. Phil
Battley, Nial Moores, John Geale, Kevin & Kelly White. Same bird as
on 3 April.
(8) 2YBYY, Keum River, South Korea, 4 April 2006. Phil
Battley, Nial Moores, John Geale, Kevin & Kelly White. Banded as an
adult female, 5 October 2004, Firth of Thames, New Zealand. Last seen
Firth of Thames 24 March 2006, giving a maximum travel time of 11 days.
(9) 3YYWB. Dongjin River, Saemangeum, Korea. 5 April
2006. Phil Battley, Nial Moores, John Geale, Kevin & Kelly White.
Banded as a juvenile male on 13 December 2004 in Golden Bay, South
Island, New Zealand. This makes it just two years old and already
migrating, probably the first time this has been documented in
eastern Bar-tailed Godwits.
(10) 3WWWY. Namdang-ri, Hongsung, South Korea, 5 April
2006. Kim Shin-hwan. Seen and photographed. Banded on 16 November
2005 as an adult female, Tasman Bay, South Island, New Zealand.
(11) 3WWWY. Gung-ri, Hongsung, South Korea, 7 April 2006.
Ahn Jung-hun and Jo Jung-jang. Same bird as above.
(12) YY??. Ersari, Hongsung, 7 April 2006. Ahn Jung-hun.
Photographed at distance; could be 2YYYB, seen on 9 April. Banded
Firth of Thames, New Zealand, February-March 2004 if YY is correct.
(13) 2WW??. Abhae Island, Shinan, South Korea, 7 April
2006. Go Kyeng-nam. One of seven males banded 18 and 19 October 2004,
Firth of Thames, New Zealand.
(14) 2RWRR. Abhae Island, Shinan, South Korea, 8 April
2006. Seen and photographed. Banded 22 October 2005 as an adult male,
Firth of Thames, North Island. Last seen 25 March 2006 in the Firth
of Thames, giving maximum travel time of 13 days.
(15) 2RBRY. Abhae Island, Shinan, South Korea, 8 April
2006. Seen and photographed. Female, first caught in the Firth of
Thames, New Zealand, aged 2 in February 2000; caught again on 12
January 2005; caught again and colour-banded on 22 October 2005. This
bird was colour-banded one bird after 2RWRR! Last seen 22 March 2006
in the Firth of Thames, giving maximum travel time of 16 days.
(16) 4YYYB. Ersari, Hongsung, 9 April 2006. Jo Jung-gang.
Seen and photographed. Banded as an adult male, 31 January 2006,
Manawatu Estuary, North Island, New Zealand.
(17) 2YWW?. Ersari, Hongsung, 9 April 2006. Jo Jung-gang.
Seen and photographed. Could be 2YWWB, from the Firth of Thames,
seen at Hongsung in a similar plumage in 2004 and 2005.
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