Whimbrel with GPS tag

A pair of hands hold a brown and white bird with a long, curved bill that has a small device attached to its back
Photo By/Credit

Bryan Watts/Center for Conservation Biology

Date Shot/Created
Circa 2023
Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
Image
Researchers used solar-powered GPS tags to track offshore movements of whimbrels, a large shorebird known to fly at relatively low altitudes when migrating.
Species
Numenius phaeopus
Subject tags
Migratory birds
Shorebirds