A regional coast bird has actually made the massive journey all the method to Japan.
The Bar-trailed Godwit shorebird from Stockton has actually been spotted in the Ramsar-noted Higashiyoka-higata mudflats in Japan.
It was found at the regular ordinary over website for birds of its kind by a devoted bird water who published an image to a Facebook page revealing a unique determining band the bird had actually been fitted with last December as part of research study.
The 8000km journey is absolutely nothing for this magnificent bird, the types thought about the Olympic champs of long-distance migratory flights, having the capability to fly from Alaska to Tasmania, non-stop in simply 11 days. It is approximated that in their life time they will fly a range equivalent to the moon and back.
University of Newcastle behavioural ecologist Dr Andrea Griffin, her research study group and Hunter Bird Observers Club A-class banders have actually partnered to band shorebirds in the Hunter for the very first time considering that the early 2000s as part of a nationwide program.
This is the very first time in years that a bird banded the Hunter Estuary has actually been spotted overseas.
Dr Griffin said the worldwide sighting of a migratory shorebird from the Hunter highlights the requirement for policy makers to think about the area of the proposed overseas wind farm on the Hunter coast, and possible hazard this might position to their flight courses.
The Hunter Estuary is identified as the most crucial website for threatened shorebirds in NSW – it offers important environment for our native birds who breed in the far northern hemisphere to rest in between October and March each year prior to flying North once again to breed.
Although the Godwit has actually beaten her there, Dr Andrea Griffin will fly to Japan this month to commemorate the Kushiro-Port Stephens sistership which promotes the preservation and smart usage of wetlands.
Dr Griffin will check out opportunities for trainee exchanges in between Hokkaido University and the University of Newcastle.
