June 12, 2016 11:49am
Environment Reporter Jade
Gailberger
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.
after it had flown northwest,
over Australia’s central deserts and then east of Kununurra in Western
Australia, before heading out over the Timor, Banda and Molucca Seas near
Indonesia.
After flying over the islands in
the Philippines, CYA clocked up 7340km on a flight to Taiwan, where the bird
spent just under two weeks, before arriving at tidal flats of the Jiangsu coast
of the Yellow Sea, near Dongtai city.
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