Shorebird Migration Research:
Track shorebirds as they migrate thousands of miles from their boreal breeding grounds to their wintering sites and back.
A few individuals have been fitted with either radio or satellite telemetry tags allowing us to follow their progress over time. One species, the bar-tailed godwit, takes the longest non-stop flight of any migrant traveling up to 11,000 km (nearly 7,000 miles) from wintering grounds in New Zealand to breeding sites in Alaska!
Visit these websites below to see detailed migration maps of seven species of shorebird: the bar-tailed and marbled godwits; long-billed and bristle-thighed curlews; American and black oystercatchers; and whimbrel.
