Richard Klim
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BBC News, 9 Jan 2014: 'Unique' bird migration discovered.
My first thought was that 1 sat nav tag has unearthed more than many many years of bird surveys and ringing. Quite spectacular.
Unbelievable! A real triumph of modern technology.
My theory is that Shetland populations are descended from Icelandic and North American populations as Scandinavian birds are known to fly to Arabia.
Fascinating. Stuff like this blows the easily taken misconception that migration is a simple case of going north and south every year. Would be good to see some theories emerge as to why the Fetlar RNP do this.
Fascinating. Stuff like this blows the easily taken misconception that migration is a simple case of going north and south every year. Would be good to see some theories emerge as to why the Fetlar RNP do this.
The Guardian, Letters and emails, 17 Jan 2014...The Guardian, 9-10 Jan 2014: In praise of … the red-necked phalarope.
[Well intentioned, but obviously unaware that conventional sex roles are reversed in all three phalarope species.]
Come on, Guardian, if you're going to quote Collins, the birders' bible, get it right (In praise of ... the red-necked phalarope, 10 January). Both phalaropes, grey and red-necked, have role reversal breeding patterns. You clearly didn't check with Stephen Moss first.
Sue Leyland
Hunmanby, North Yorkshire
Smith, Bolton, Okill, Summers, Ellis, Liechti & Wilson (in press). Geolocator tagging reveals Pacific migration of Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus breeding in Scotland. Ibis. [abstract]BBC News, 9 Jan 2014: 'Unique' bird migration discovered.