BirdingNZ.net

The website where you can check on these birds is here: http://behavioural-ecology.orn.mpg.de:3838/NZ2019_BTGO/

It will automatically show the last 10 days, but you can change that with the cog icon in the right-hand corner. The latest position for each bird is shown as a pulsing dot - click on the dots and it will give the details of who, when and what quality the record is. You can select just a bird of interest via the cog also. Quality is 3 = best, letters = uncertain or bad. If you want to look for a bird in the field, just select the good positions (again, via the cog).Times are local, but there is a 5-h delay in uploading, so if you're itching to see where a bird is this morning, wait until the afternoon... The tags are solar, so night-time flights appear as straight lines and the bird will appear when the sun comes up.

When you find a bird, let us know!

Thanks, Phil

Fantastic!!

Hey Phil,
That's web page to follow. Many thanks for sharing it. We'll certainly be looking out for tagged birds.

All credit to Mihai Valcu from Max Planck for the website!

that's such a great initiative Phil. Thanks for putting it out. That wandering bird is one mixed-up godwit kid...are there several at Miranda cos you haven't included that site in the list?

The wandering ones are the intelligent ones! We tagged 7 birds at Miranda so I only mentioned the ones that have moved.

Canterbury people - blink and you miss it! A bird from the Ohau estuary in the Horowhenua was seemingly at Lake Ellesmere for a couple of hours yesterday morning before heading onwards to Otago. Karitane people can pop out to check on it for us...

Today's update...
* A Miranda bird went to the northern Kaipara Harbour and is now somewhere in the Far North.
* Another Miranda bird is now around Mangere in the Manukau Harbour
* Two birds are still at Whangapoua Harbour in Coromandel
* One bird is at Mahia Peninsula
* Two are in Tasman Bay
** A bird that went from Manawatu to Ki Wainono has mow moved to the Wairau Lagoons - one for the Blenheim atlassers...?
* One seems content at Lk Ellesmere
* Finally, one has moved to Otago - Warrington area

All sightings welcome!

Phil

Just now at Ellesmere Lake entered via Wolfe Road. She was feeding non stop with 2 other bar-tailed godwits. A group of 4 I think. I spent over an hour watching another 5 godwits feeding along the water tide and coming back in I put my camera up to see the tagged bird along further. So exciting.Possibly the only godwits present here today.[/img]

Noticed this one today (Tue 31st Dec 2019) out at Wolfe's Road
[edit]Probably the same bird as the previous photo