Curlew Update 4 July 2017

Mojo the Long-billed Curlew 

set out from Skookumchuck Prairie IBA at 9:30 pm on the first of July, 2017 following two females, Mildred and Pine, who left the area on the 21st of June.  All three birds flew straight toward Enterprise in northeast Oregon.  Mildred and Pine stopped at Enterprise for a bit before continuing on to California, but Mojo went past, turned southwest along the Malheur River, a tributary of the Snake River, and managed to find some agricultural fields out in the middle of nowhere, for goodness sake.  His last co-ordinates placed him south of Juntara, Oregon.

Mojo flew past the fields where Mildred and Pine took a breather

Mojo found some fields, Granite Creek Road, Juntara, Oregon

Equina

What fate has befallen Equina?  Her transmitter has not been transmitting since 29 June and today I found a very small pile of curlew feathers beside the highway near her last known co-ordinates between Moan and Ford Roads.

Long-billed Curlew Happenings on the IBA

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In June, seven Long-billed Curlews nesting on Skookumchuck Prairie Important Bird and Biodiversity Area were tucked out with satellite transmitters on backpacks.

Follow their brood-rearing and migrations here: Telemetry Map (courtesy of Bird Studies Canada)

Also see their and our friends and relatives tagged in the states: Telemetry Map US (courtesy of Intermountain Bird Observatory, Boise State University)

Me releasing "Mildred" aka AA. BSC photo

Antenna and leg flag visible. BSC photo