Barbow the Svalbard Barnacle Goose has beaten Godzilla's incredible speedy migration from WWT's wetland centre in Caerlaverock, Scotland to Norway by flying at a staggering average of over 75mph and making the journey three hours quicker.
Barbow is being satellite tracked by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and has now set off on the first part of his 2,000 mile migration to Norway. He left the Solway Firth on Saturday evening flying across the North Sea at a phenomenal speed of at least 127kph - the maximum speed the transmitters can record.
Full story is at
http://www.wwt.org.uk/article/3/239/barnacle_goose_barbow_speeds_ahead.html
You can check out the individual migrations of each of the 11 satellite tagged birds from Caerlaverock all the way to Svalbard at http://www.wwt.org.uk/barnacle/Maps.asp
Barbow is being satellite tracked by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and has now set off on the first part of his 2,000 mile migration to Norway. He left the Solway Firth on Saturday evening flying across the North Sea at a phenomenal speed of at least 127kph - the maximum speed the transmitters can record.
Full story is at
http://www.wwt.org.uk/article/3/239/barnacle_goose_barbow_speeds_ahead.html
You can check out the individual migrations of each of the 11 satellite tagged birds from Caerlaverock all the way to Svalbard at http://www.wwt.org.uk/barnacle/Maps.asp
