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#NZgodwits
The young bar-tailed #godwit 4RBBB may have had smooth sailing for 95% of the trip, she is not met with hospitality upon arrival to the #YellowSea. Now battered by 40-50 km/hour headwinds, she may be considering landfall on Jeju Island, South Korea.
Go, godwit!
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Bar-tailed #godwit 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 #YellowSea!
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Bar-tailed #godwit 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.
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It is so amazing that bar-tailed #godwit 4BWRB keeps such a straight course over featureless ocean to #YellowSea. 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.
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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 #godwits in #Alaska impatient? Find out at: https://t.co/h0yuMmdZNa
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Limited time offer for #NZgodwits: tailwinds more than halfway to Hawaii today!
Follow https://t.co/h0yuMmdZNa to find out whether any of the bar-tailed #godwits staging on the Kuskokwim Shoals in #Alaska will take the bite and begin the trans-Pacific migration to New Zealand...
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The TWO SPATIAL REALITIES for bar-tailed #godwits 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.
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Interestingly, low pressure system throbbing north of Aleutians divided arriving #NZgodwits. 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