Fetch Birdwatchers
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166 watchers
Nov 2021
11:35pm, 9 Nov 2021
22,147 posts
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Red Squirrel
My dad's reported that the 3 fledged green woodpeckers he's been seeing in his garden are all grown up now and in full colour. They still come down to the lawn to feed together. He estimates he sees them twice a week!
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Nov 2021
9:28am, 10 Nov 2021
17,686 posts
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Ness
That's lovely 😍
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Nov 2021
3:02pm, 11 Nov 2021
5,380 posts
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um
In The Times today, Bar-tailed godwit breaks record for longest non-stop bird flight. A bird said to have the aerodynamics of a jet fighter has been tracked flying non-stop more than 8,000 miles from Alaska to Australia, setting a world record for continuous avian flight. It was the second time the bird had broken the world record. The bar-tailed godwit left southwest Alaska for his summer grounds in New Zealand on September 17 but hit strong winds over the Pacific, south of Fiji, forcing a detour far west to Australia. Carrying a tiny solar-powered satellite tracking device, he landed at Tweed Heads, 500 miles north of Sydney at about 9.30am on September 27. He had flown non-stop for 8,108 miles, making the longest continuous land bird flight ever recorded. The godwit, tagged and known as 4BBRW, flew for 239 hours (nearly ten days) on its journey over the Pacific. (Um : that’s a continuous 34mph) By chance, Geoff White, a noted Australian bird photographer, spied the satellite transmitter on the bird five hours after it landed at an estuary near the border of Queensland and New South Wales, taking a series of close-up pictures. Only later did he learn of its significance. “I was walking on the beach and I thought ‘that’s a special bird’ when I saw it,” White said. Only when he checked 4BBRW’s tag reference online — signified by the blue, red and white rings on its legs — did he realise the bird’s enormous importance to international birdwatchers, even before its latest record-breaking flight. Godwit 4BBRW last year wrested the 13-year world record at the time for the longest non-stop flight from a female godwitwhen he flew continuously for 7,500 miles from Alaska to New Zealand’s shorebird haven on the Firth of Thames on the North Island. His first world record was beaten by about 125 miles when another female godwit landed in New Zealand from Alaska early on the morning of September 26. The next day, 4BBRW landed in Australia, returning him the world record. And then he realised he was in the wrong place, or maybe had diverted for a snack, so flew another 1200 miles (in 11 days, the slacker!) to New Zealand. “The amazing thing is that we know they can process this massive ocean and then come back eventually to exactly where they left from nine months earlier — in the same way that a sea bird can fly around the world and then land in a forest five metres from its burrow,” Battley said. |
Nov 2021
4:19pm, 11 Nov 2021
52,666 posts
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Derby Tup
I love wading birds generally but godwit in particular. That bird’s journey is awesome
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Nov 2021
4:44pm, 11 Nov 2021
3,807 posts
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phal
Pokey pokey bird! (that's a bird hide term for not being able to remember the word 'Godwit' from Norfolk with KinkyS and flanker and Dave A ) (Plus I just wanted to try out the new feature  )
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Nov 2021
5:33pm, 11 Nov 2021
17,959 posts
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KinkyS
"phal mentioned you on thread: Fetch Birdwatchers" 😀😀😀 I do love a pokey pokey bird 
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Nov 2021
5:47pm, 11 Nov 2021
3,808 posts
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phal
Woo hoo! It worked
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Nov 2021
5:50pm, 11 Nov 2021
3,809 posts
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phal
If in doubt, name a bird by it's jizz. Now there's a sentence that only works in certain company. And related to that - just in case anyone fancies getting one..... google.com It *is* bird related.....
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Nov 2021
6:31pm, 11 Nov 2021
81,961 posts
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Hanneke
That is just the most awesome thing! Go Godwits!
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Nov 2021
7:37pm, 11 Nov 2021
3,932 posts
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J2R
Good Godwit, that's impressive!
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