Notes on staging bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica baueri) at Ouvéa (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia) during southward migration in 2007 Journal Paper
- Author
- Schuckard, R.; Melville, D.S.
- Year
- 2020
- Journal / Source
- Notornis
- Volume
- 67
- Number
- 4
- Pages
- 651-656
- Keywords
- Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica baueri, Loyalty Islands, moult, New Caledonia, Ouvéa, southward migration
- Summary
- During southward migration from Alaska in 2006, a satellite-tracked female bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) encountered adverse weather and stayed between 19 September and about 28 September 2006 at Ouvéa (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia), where she apparently died. Ouvéa was visited between 27 September and 7 October 2007 to look for godwits. A total of eight godwits was recorded of which one, thought to be an adult female, may have been a dropout migrant. The remaining birds appeared to be immatures.