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News item on the northern Godwit migration

from [L&L Knight] [Permanent Link][Original]
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Subject: News item on the northern Godwit migration
From: L&L Knight <>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:04:57 +1000 
Wader watchers will find the following item interesting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6646091.stm

Godwits' epic journey tracked
By Kim Griggs Wellington, New Zealand
Monday, 14 May 2007, 21:23 GMT 22:23 UK
particularly the following comment - "Their navigational expertise must be very high because the distances they were actually flying, as best we can estimate from the data, are not greatly different from the shortest possible distance between those two spots,"
see http://www.werc.usgs.gov/sattrack/shorebirds/overall.html to view the migration tracks of the GPS toting birds. 

Regards, Laurie.

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