Friday, 4 February 2011

Marathon Sanderling

Since my last Sanderling post, one of the blogs I follow Fair Isle http://fair-isle.blogspot.com/ found a colour ringed Sanderling. Colour ringing interests me so I did a little research on Sanderling and found an interesting statistic.
Sanderling Marathon
A sanderling, with a departure weight of just over 100g, has flown the 6,000km from Norway to Ghana in less than five days. The bird was photographed on 11 August 2009 in chilly, damp South Norway. On 16 August a Ghanaian biologist spotted him under the coconut palms on Esiama beach. The sanderling was recognized by the coloured rings on its legs. Biologists from the University of Groningen and the University of Ghana in Accra gave the birds coloured leg rings to learn more about how they live and their survival chances. You can read more about this story here and about the IWSG Sanderling Project here . This information can be found on this web site http://www.cr-birding.be/.

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5 comments:

  1. Ashley Hugo4 February 2011 at 20:32

    That is unbelievable!! Nice image to accompany it too

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  2. Montanagirl5 February 2011 at 02:19

    That really IS unbelievable!! Great photo.

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  3. Unknown5 February 2011 at 14:13

    Interesting post and super image like your previous Sanderling photos.

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  4. swopticsphoto6 February 2011 at 09:01

    Stunning colours in the image Sam.

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  5. Angie Moore6 February 2011 at 22:57

    Lovely image and fascinating read!

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