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"She will have to wait now until winter and therefore time to go back to South Africa - next year it will hopefully get back on course to Russia."
I wonder if it will manage to correct it's navigational error - that it is suggested it is unaware of ? Seems quite likely it won't make South Africa let alone ever reach it's breeding area.
"She will have to wait now until winter and therefore time to go back to South Africa - next year it will hopefully get back on course to Russia."
I wonder if it will manage to correct it's navigational error - that it is suggested it is unaware of ? Seems quite likely it won't make South Africa let alone ever reach it's breeding area.
Firstly, many RFF breed well west of Russia, secondly, their spring migration route is well to the west of their autumn route (hence a relatively small navigation error/ wind assisted vagrancy has occurred in this case) and thirdly, as a atrong flyer there is no reason to suppose this bird wont make it back to its breeding area this season and then migrate normally thereafter. Some vagrants are probably doomed never to return to their normal range and therfore never meet a prospective partner but those that are drifted to Britain from relatively nearby breeding areas in spring should have no problem reorientating.
Have the press ever written an article about a rarity which does not include the phrase 'twitchers flocked to see this rare bird' or something similar?
Thought the beeb were better than that. Apparently not.