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The young bar-tailed 4RBBB may have had smooth sailing for 95% of the trip, she is not met with hospitality upon arrival to the Now battered by 40-50 km/hour headwinds, she may be considering landfall on Jeju Island, South Korea.
Go, godwit!
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1 4
2022-03-15


Bar-tailed 4RBBB is now about 1,800 km from Yellow Sea & it is looking good. She was fat on 2 March! The 2.5-year-old PTT was a bit quiet at first, but it has now shaken off the rust. Winds are looking quite good for smooth approach to the
https://t.co/6f180GkDzg

3 11
2022-03-14


Bar-tailed 4BBYB departed Yalu Jiang yesterday, amid uncontroversial local winds. There is a system east of Japan & it looks her plan is to go north over the top, rather than the much more fun southerly slingshot.
Check out what's next? https://t.co/h0yuMmdZNa https://t.co/QUm24IU3Ku

6 15
2021-05-15


It is so amazing that bar-tailed 4BWRB keeps such a straight course over featureless ocean to Since his departure, he flew in strong cross-winds (up to 50 km/hr) from east & northeast. Almost out of it now. Note every dot=measured location.
https://t.co/41qxEQS8Ym

13 31
2021-03-27

Very nice local conditions for departure from Kuskokwim are developing over the next 10 hours, and eroding in less than a day after that. Does this make the bar-tailed in impatient? Find out at: https://t.co/h0yuMmdZNa
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1 4
2020-09-10

Limited time offer for tailwinds more than halfway to Hawaii today!

Follow https://t.co/h0yuMmdZNa to find out whether any of the bar-tailed staging on the Kuskokwim Shoals in will take the bite and begin the trans-Pacific migration to New Zealand...

10 21
2020-09-06

Zoom-in, zoom-out!
The TWO SPATIAL REALITIES for bar-tailed migrating from Alaska to New Zealand. 1-Negotiating 10700 km across entire northern Pacific, hindered/facilitated by wind systems, 2-Recovering and refuelling on a reef system near Papua New Guinea.
https://t.co/gsVCVJdtj7

12 34
2020-09-05


Interestingly, low pressure system throbbing north of Aleutians divided arriving Tow of the five took path of least resistance south of system, but one fought headwinds north of Saint Paul. What will next 2 do? See: https://t.co/h0yuMmdZNa

8 14
2020-05-24