As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Tuesday 27 August 2013

Prairie chicken tracked on 1,165-mile journey in Missouri and Iowa

A female prairie chicken wearing a GPS tracking collar surprised and puzzled biologists this summer by traveling 1,165 miles in big circles in southern Iowa and northern Missouri. The hen, labeled Bird No. 112, was trapped in western Nebraska and released on April 4 near the Missouri border, north of Bethany, for a prairie chicken restoration project. Since then, she has avoided fatal dangers such as predators, vehicles, fences and utility lines in a ceaseless journey which has slowed but not stopped.

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