[TN-Bird] Flycatcher Flies 2,200 km in 48 hours
- From: Judy Dorsey <judydorsey@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 19:31:38 -0500
Heard about this today: amazing flight of a Willow Flycatcher from Illinois
to Veracruz, Mexico. It could have passed through Tennessee. See message
from Manuel Grosselet below.
Judy Dorsey
Hickory Withe, TN
*Subject: Fwd: Migration of Willow Flycatcher*
Date: Wed Sep 3 2014 17:40 pm
From: larry.robinson
I thought this was fascinating!
Larry Robinson
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ivan Miksik
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: Migration of Willow Flycatcher
To: BIRDBAND@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,
it's really amazing!!
In this case it could be important to know exact time of banding as well
as your control.
Regar
Ivan
Ivan Miksik
Czech Republic
www.natureblink.com
> We always speak about amazing migration achievements in Shorebirds. Here I
> want to show you something amazing. You know Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax
> traillii), these little guys can fly from North America to northen South
> America during migration. they weight 14 to15 grs. and they cross through
> where we are, in Minatitlan Veracruz. Yesterday we caught around 120 of
> them, and one was alrededy banded. We checked out, thanks to BBL, found
> this bird was banded in Harrison Illinois, USA on the 30th of August 2014.
> We recaptured it yesterday 1st of september 2014, two days later 2200 km
> away. That means this bird flew about 45 km/hour for 48 hours non stop.
> That it's an achievement.
>
> If somebody have the email of Lee G jonhson, He is the happy bander...I
> would like to enter in contact with him..
>
> All the best
> Manuel
> www.tierradeaves.com
>
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