Just a day after the news of Machi the Whimbrel’s shooting by hunters on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe (see previous post) comes the report that a second satellite-tracked bird also died in the same hunting area on the island. The second Whimbrel’s name was Goshen, a female that had been tracked since August 2010 [...]
A migrating Whimbrel named Machi has been shot on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, French West Indies. The bird (pictured at left) had likely landed to rest up after detouring around Tropical Storm Maria. Machi became one of thousands of shorebirds that are hunted for sport each fall—but she stood out from the flock because [...]
Last time we heard from Nate Senner, he was herding godwits in Chile. Since then he’s been to Peru for a three-week stint of shorebird-identification workshops with an incredible goal: to survey the entire coastline of the country. Here’s Nate with his first installment of how things went: Twenty-five years ago, two Canadian biologists undertook [...]
Cornell graduate student Nate Senner has been writing from Chiloé Island, Chile, where he’s studying Hudsonian Godwits on their wintering grounds. He wrote yesterday with a puzzling situation on his hands: Where have all the godwits gone? A funny thing began to happen five days ago—the godwits began to disappear. We first noticed that something [...]
Cornell Ph.D. student Nathan Senner is back on Chiloé Island, Chile, this month to study shorebirds he last saw in his home state of Alaska. As you may remember from stories he posted last year, he’s trying to learn how Hudsonian Godwits and Whimbrels survive their 8,000-mile migrations from the top of the world to [...]
