Two grey plovers tracked leaving Adelaide and flying 13,000 km in three months
Submitted by Chickowee on 14 Jun 2016.
TWO migratory birds that spent the summer in Adelaide have been tracked to a remote Russian island in the Arctic Circle, having flown 13,000km in three months.
The grey plovers’ journeys from Adelaide’s International Bird Sanctuary are the subject of a migration study and each carries a solar-powered satellite tracking device.
Both birds left Thompson Beach, west of Dublin, in March, but have chosen different paths to Wrangel Island, which is off Russia’s northeast coast.
So remote is the island that it is thought to have been home to the world’s last population of woolly mammoths up until about 4000 years ago.
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