May is here! Instead of May flowers we got large numbers of godwits. Right on time it appears that the majority of the breeding population is back in Alaska - they typically arrive within three days of each other. We've been getting larger and larger flocks during our mudflat scans and more and more of them have been banded individuals from this breeding population.
When we aren't scanning the mudflats, we've been out in the bogs and on plot. The crew is getting familiar with the landscape, walking on uneven terrain, where godwit territories typically are, and setting up some of our environmental data metrics. With the arrival of larger numbers of banded birds today, we'll start nest searching soon!
When we aren't scanning the mudflats, we've been out in the bogs and on plot. The crew is getting familiar with the landscape, walking on uneven terrain, where godwit territories typically are, and setting up some of our environmental data metrics. With the arrival of larger numbers of banded birds today, we'll start nest searching soon!