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Interesting!

8 Northern Pintail (7 adults and 1 juv.) now at the Chongming Dao Wetlands near Shanghai.

1 Northern Pintail (juv) [82147] has gone to the southern tip of South Korea, ~20Km west of Haeman. Looks like it made a stop at a coastal wetland just north of Yuhuan Dao (East China). The statistics show this bird flew at an average of ~27Km/hr.

[ Last edited by sbena at 14/03/2009 20:03 ]

sbena

Just to add to Johns summary, here's an overview map showing the movements and current locations of ducks that are sending regular signals (10 individuals).

You can download a higher quality image here



[ Last edited by sbena at 4/06/2009 21:28 ]

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Yesterday at Mai Po (09 Dec 2009) the same team fitted satellite receivers to another 23 duck; Eurasian Wigeon and Northern Pintail. You will likely see these individuals around Mai Po and Deep Bay over the next few months, so please continue to post sightings or photos as a supplement to the satellite positioning data, thanks.

A press release related to the satellite tracking project will go out soon.

[ Last edited by sbena at 10/12/2009 09:19 ]

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The Western Ecological Research Center web pages for these ducks is already up and running click here

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Three duck from Phase II have now left Hong Kong; all are Northern Pintail (see GPS data file). The date is exactly the same as Phase I!

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The story of this duck made the BBC news website!

Link

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