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Richard’s Pipit westward migration route (1 Viewer)

Colour ringing and geo localiser technology proving that some birds from the western edge of the breeding range now regularly undertake a longer distance western migration and have established a nice wintering spot on the Côte d’ Azur! A new westward migration route in an Asian passerine bird
Fascinating. Richard's Pipit has increased in Jersey from unrecorded to rare annual* migrant during my birding lifetime. I think the most I've seen in a single Autumn is seven. Sadly, this mirrors the downward trajectory of Tawny Pipit.

*Of course as I'm doing a local big year, not a single record so far in 2021!
 
Very interesting research!

However, is the increase of records of Richard's Pipit is a genuine increase of numbers of birds, or increased birders effort, especially knowledge of finding the species?
 
Just looking on Faune-paca.org and I see that one particular bird 'J25' is back for at least its fourth winter, that's a lot of kilometres flown in that time!
 
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