[Maine-birds] Maine shorebirds sporting leg flags

Hi Maine Birders!

 

Biologists from Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Maine, Rachel Carson NWR and Biodiversity Research Institute are currently banding and attaching tracking devices to migrating shorebirds using coastal mudflats in southern Maine and Downeast.  Downeast birds are sporting dark green leg flags on their upper left leg and various color bands on their right leg.  Birds captured in southern Maine have dark green leg flags with alpha numeric codes.  The purpose of this study is to determine local movements of shorebirds using Maine habitats during migration, duration of stay, and pre-migration condition.  Please keep an eye out for our birds and report your observations to myself and www.bandedbirds.org 

 

Also, there are several exciting shorebird studies occuring on Arctic breeding and South American wintering habitats.  Researchers are capturing, color banding, and attaching tracking devices to shorebirds in hopes of tracking their migration. Please keep your eye out for these birds as well.  Observations of semipalmated sandpipers marked on their wintering grounds in Brazil and Suriname have been reported in Maine on their way south.  Several of these observations have been posted on Maine birds and entered in bandedbirds.  Because of these observations we now know winter destinations for some of our shorebirds, thank you!   

 

Best,

Lindsay Tudor

Maine Dept. Inland Fisheries and Wildlife    

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