Bird Watching: Very good article on Red Knot Migration Research, 0 by Resin
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Resin wrote: Nice one! Quite a coincidence, just been reading two other similar papers, one on waders, with the suggestion that Sharp-tailed Sandpiper can probably do 11,000 km non-stop, same as Bar-tailed Godwits: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.act... But for total distance, it's Arctic Tern, at 80,000 km per year - more than 3 times what that Knot did! http://www.arctictern.info/carsten/pdf/egevang_arte-migratio... That's 2½ million km in a 30 year lifespan . . . equivalent to three times to the moon and back! Resin |