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Willy
Whimbrel Tracking in the Americas
A project of The Center for Conservation Biology.
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Species: Whimbrel
Life Stage: Adult
Gender: Unknown
Release Date: 2008-08-14 00:00:00
Release Location: Eastern Shore of Virginia, USA
Last Location: 2008-11-17 09:18:04
Background
This whimbrel was captured on fall migration at a stopover site in coastal Virginia, USA. The stopover habitat is a saltmarsh lagoon system with an abundance of fiddler crabs for prey. When the whimbrel gained enough body fat to continue migrating south, it flew over the Atlantic Ocean toward Bermuda and then through the Carribbean to South America. After settling in for the winter on the mudflats of Guyana, the whimbrel's transmitter stopped sending signals. We didn't know what the fate of this bird was until we resighted it back in Virginia in fall 2009, presumably stopping over before heading down to South America again.