Bird Migration: First ‘transmitter Godwit’ Back To West Africa In One Go
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 08:28
in Biology & Nature
One of the fifteen Frisian ‘transmitter godwits’, which was still in Friesland on Saturday, arrived in Senegal in West Africa on Tuesday morning. The bird, nicknamed Heidenskip, appears to have flown from Friesland via Spain and over the Sahara in one go. The distance, over four thousand kilometers, was covered by the bird in two days of nonstop flying. Her average speed was nearly eighty kilometers per hour.