Long-billed Curlew, male, Morro Strand State Beach, Morro Bay, CA

Taken on June 21, 2020 (uploaded 6/23/20)

MV: DOZER," banded and fitted with a satellite transmitter in May 2020 by the Intermountain Bird Observatory at his breeding grounds in Indian Valley in the West Central Mountains of Idaho. He migrated out about June 17, 2020.

Heather M Hayes (heathermhayes@boisestate.edu)
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The Curlew Crew - June 29 at 5:00 PM ·

BREAKING NEWS!

Can you guess what coastal Morro Bay, CA and Idaho’s West Central Mountains have in common? Two of the Curlew Crew’s newest members to the study flock- curlews Neil (LV) from New Meadows and Dozer (MV) from Indian Valley, that's what!!

If you recall from our post last week, these 2 males began their southbound migration a bit early, as males usually stick around ‘til mid-June to early July. The satellite transmitter data indicated that Neil was near Modesto, CA and Dozer was outside of Reno, NV. Within a few short days, the next transmissions from both birds were pinging from the Morro Bay area. This is extremely exciting as these are the very first curlews from any of our breeding research study sites to migrate directly to Coastal California to overwinter 😲!

So why is this new research discovery so important? Because as we piece the migratory connectivity puzzle together, we can work toward ensuring conservation measures are in place to protect the habitats and resources curlews need along their migratory routes throughout their entire annual life cycle.

A big, BIG thank you to our partner Payette Children's Forest whose funding made this research possible in the West Central Mountains👍

Enjoy this fantastic video that was sent to us from an amatuer birder visiting Morro Bay just days after Dozer's arrival! She captured him doing what his namesake implies, as he nestles into the sand for a snooze~ doesn't that sound good right about now?!

www.boisestate.edu/ibo/curlews/

This is so exciting!! The Intermountain bird Observatory has been studying Long-billed curlews since 2009 as local populations in SW ID have been in a ~ 95% decline. We began tracking their migration through use of satellite transmitters since 2013 to learn more about their migratory connectivity and to try to find out the reasons for their decline. We have discovered the illegal shooting on the public lands is one of the main driving factors for this decline :(

It was Dozer you spotted! He was part of our new mountain study - from Indian Valley about an hour out of New Meadows :) Unfortunately both of Dozers nests had failed, the first one due to predation in an alfalfa field and I suspect it was either Ravens or magpies :-( The second nest failure was due to abandonment.

Dozer began his migration about June 17, 2020. He presumably arrived in the Morro Bay area June 20, 2020. This is particularly exciting for us because this is our very first Curlew to head straight to the coast as most of our curlews head to the Central and Imperial Valleys of CA and down into Mexico!

Our transmitters don't actually tell us each physical stop they make, they just show us points when the satellite sends a signal back and forth with the transmitter.

Update 6/24/20 by Heather M. Hayes:

Dozer's second nest failure was due to abandonment :( I checked the nest on hatch date (June 14th) and the chicks had just started hatching, but neither parent was around the nest, whereas if the nest was successful, the parents and other curlews would have been mobbing and alarm calling on my approach. I came back the next day and there was again no incubating bird and the eggs were cold. In cases like these, we can only speculate reasons behind the failure- and we were thinking maybe something had happened to the female and the male didn't head back to the nest. (I did see the male on the roadside walking around when he in fact should have been incubating).

The names we give the birds are temporary "field" names, as we typically have a big naming contest with the local school students where we give our outreach presentations. But the reason this temporary nest name of "Dozer" was given was because I found the female, sleeping standing up in a field. This was pretty early in the season as were we only in the mapping stages of where curlews were being observed. I was watching from my car for about 20 minutes and was surprised to see her wake quickly (like an alarm went off!) and she started running through the field for about 200m, then I saw the silhouette of the male rise up and take off while she then sat where he was- indicating they had just completed their nest switch!


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The Curlew Crew - June 19 at 5:00 PM ·
WHOA- this just in!!!!
As promised, the southbound curlew migration season is heating up 🔥🔥!! Check out this exciting update from our new 2020 study site in the West Central Mountains…

The Curlew Crew was successful in the safe capture and transmitter deployment for 3 curlews - a male (LV) and female (MN) from 2 separate nests in New Meadows and a male (MV) in Indian Valley. The female is still on site tending to her chicks, but it appears that the 2 males left just this week and flew directly over our curlew study sites in SW Idaho! In just a few short days, it appears the New Meadows male is now near Modesto, CA and the Indian Valley male is NE of Reno.

Could these areas be their final wintering ground destinations? Will they continue all the way to the coast? OR…Might they be resting up only to surprise us and turn southeast and head to Mexico??? Where do YOU think they will end up? Leave your guesses in the comments below 👇

FYI: Since these birds are new to the 2020 study, they are not uploaded to the satellite tracking map yet, but don’t worry, we will be updating everyone here, so stay tuned as this exciting migratory mystery keeps unfolding!

(*Up-close curlew shots were zoomed and cropped as researchers maintained social distancing)
_________________________________________________

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Long-billed Curlew, male, Morro Strand State Beach, Morro Bay, CA

Taken on June 21, 2020 (uploaded 6/23/20)

MV: DOZER," banded and fitted with a satellite transmitter in May 2020 by the Intermountain Bird Observatory at his breeding grounds in Indian Valley in the West Central Mountains of Idaho. He migrated out about June 17, 2020.

Heather M Hayes (heathermhayes@boisestate.edu)
_________________________________________________
INTERMOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/IBOsCurlewCrew/

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The Curlew Crew - June 29 at 5:00 PM ·

BREAKING NEWS!

Can you guess what coastal Morro Bay, CA and Idaho’s West Central Mountains have in common? Two of the Curlew Crew’s newest members to the study flock- curlews Neil (LV) from New Meadows and Dozer (MV) from Indian Valley, that's what!!

If you recall from our post last week, these 2 males began their southbound migration a bit early, as males usually stick around ‘til mid-June to early July. The satellite transmitter data indicated that Neil was near Modesto, CA and Dozer was outside of Reno, NV. Within a few short days, the next transmissions from both birds were pinging from the Morro Bay area. This is extremely exciting as these are the very first curlews from any of our breeding research study sites to migrate directly to Coastal California to overwinter 😲!

So why is this new research discovery so important? Because as we piece the migratory connectivity puzzle together, we can work toward ensuring conservation measures are in place to protect the habitats and resources curlews need along their migratory routes throughout their entire annual life cycle.

A big, BIG thank you to our partner Payette Children's Forest whose funding made this research possible in the West Central Mountains👍

Enjoy this fantastic video that was sent to us from an amatuer birder visiting Morro Bay just days after Dozer's arrival! She captured him doing what his namesake implies, as he nestles into the sand for a snooze~ doesn't that sound good right about now?!

www.boisestate.edu/ibo/curlews/

This is so exciting!! The Intermountain bird Observatory has been studying Long-billed curlews since 2009 as local populations in SW ID have been in a ~ 95% decline. We began tracking their migration through use of satellite transmitters since 2013 to learn more about their migratory connectivity and to try to find out the reasons for their decline. We have discovered the illegal shooting on the public lands is one of the main driving factors for this decline :(

It was Dozer you spotted! He was part of our new mountain study - from Indian Valley about an hour out of New Meadows :) Unfortunately both of Dozers nests had failed, the first one due to predation in an alfalfa field and I suspect it was either Ravens or magpies :-( The second nest failure was due to abandonment.

Dozer began his migration about June 17, 2020. He presumably arrived in the Morro Bay area June 20, 2020. This is particularly exciting for us because this is our very first Curlew to head straight to the coast as most of our curlews head to the Central and Imperial Valleys of CA and down into Mexico!

Our transmitters don't actually tell us each physical stop they make, they just show us points when the satellite sends a signal back and forth with the transmitter.

Update 6/24/20 by Heather M. Hayes:

Dozer's second nest failure was due to abandonment :( I checked the nest on hatch date (June 14th) and the chicks had just started hatching, but neither parent was around the nest, whereas if the nest was successful, the parents and other curlews would have been mobbing and alarm calling on my approach. I came back the next day and there was again no incubating bird and the eggs were cold. In cases like these, we can only speculate reasons behind the failure- and we were thinking maybe something had happened to the female and the male didn't head back to the nest. (I did see the male on the roadside walking around when he in fact should have been incubating).

The names we give the birds are temporary "field" names, as we typically have a big naming contest with the local school students where we give our outreach presentations. But the reason this temporary nest name of "Dozer" was given was because I found the female, sleeping standing up in a field. This was pretty early in the season as were we only in the mapping stages of where curlews were being observed. I was watching from my car for about 20 minutes and was surprised to see her wake quickly (like an alarm went off!) and she started running through the field for about 200m, then I saw the silhouette of the male rise up and take off while she then sat where he was- indicating they had just completed their nest switch!


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The Curlew Crew - June 19 at 5:00 PM ·
WHOA- this just in!!!!
As promised, the southbound curlew migration season is heating up 🔥🔥!! Check out this exciting update from our new 2020 study site in the West Central Mountains…

The Curlew Crew was successful in the safe capture and transmitter deployment for 3 curlews - a male (LV) and female (MN) from 2 separate nests in New Meadows and a male (MV) in Indian Valley. The female is still on site tending to her chicks, but it appears that the 2 males left just this week and flew directly over our curlew study sites in SW Idaho! In just a few short days, it appears the New Meadows male is now near Modesto, CA and the Indian Valley male is NE of Reno.

Could these areas be their final wintering ground destinations? Will they continue all the way to the coast? OR…Might they be resting up only to surprise us and turn southeast and head to Mexico??? Where do YOU think they will end up? Leave your guesses in the comments below 👇

FYI: Since these birds are new to the 2020 study, they are not uploaded to the satellite tracking map yet, but don’t worry, we will be updating everyone here, so stay tuned as this exciting migratory mystery keeps unfolding!

(*Up-close curlew shots were zoomed and cropped as researchers maintained social distancing)
_________________________________________________

© All Rights Reserved

Long-billed Curlew, male, Morro Strand State Beach, Morro Bay, CA

Taken on June 21, 2020 (uploaded 6/23/20)

MV: DOZER," banded and fitted with a satellite transmitter in May 2020 by the Intermountain Bird Observatory at his breeding grounds in Indian Valley in the West Central Mountains of Idaho. He migrated out about June 17, 2020.

Heather M Hayes (heathermhayes@boisestate.edu)
_________________________________________________
INTERMOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/IBOsCurlewCrew/

FACEBOOK
The Curlew Crew - June 29 at 5:00 PM ·

BREAKING NEWS!

Can you guess what coastal Morro Bay, CA and Idaho’s West Central Mountains have in common? Two of the Curlew Crew’s newest members to the study flock- curlews Neil (LV) from New Meadows and Dozer (MV) from Indian Valley, that's what!!

If you recall from our post last week, these 2 males began their southbound migration a bit early, as males usually stick around ‘til mid-June to early July. The satellite transmitter data indicated that Neil was near Modesto, CA and Dozer was outside of Reno, NV. Within a few short days, the next transmissions from both birds were pinging from the Morro Bay area. This is extremely exciting as these are the very first curlews from any of our breeding research study sites to migrate directly to Coastal California to overwinter 😲!

So why is this new research discovery so important? Because as we piece the migratory connectivity puzzle together, we can work toward ensuring conservation measures are in place to protect the habitats and resources curlews need along their migratory routes throughout their entire annual life cycle.

A big, BIG thank you to our partner Payette Children's Forest whose funding made this research possible in the West Central Mountains👍

Enjoy this fantastic video that was sent to us from an amatuer birder visiting Morro Bay just days after Dozer's arrival! She captured him doing what his namesake implies, as he nestles into the sand for a snooze~ doesn't that sound good right about now?!

www.boisestate.edu/ibo/curlews/

This is so exciting!! The Intermountain bird Observatory has been studying Long-billed curlews since 2009 as local populations in SW ID have been in a ~ 95% decline. We began tracking their migration through use of satellite transmitters since 2013 to learn more about their migratory connectivity and to try to find out the reasons for their decline. We have discovered the illegal shooting on the public lands is one of the main driving factors for this decline :(

It was Dozer you spotted! He was part of our new mountain study - from Indian Valley about an hour out of New Meadows :) Unfortunately both of Dozers nests had failed, the first one due to predation in an alfalfa field and I suspect it was either Ravens or magpies :-( The second nest failure was due to abandonment.

Dozer began his migration about June 17, 2020. He presumably arrived in the Morro Bay area June 20, 2020. This is particularly exciting for us because this is our very first Curlew to head straight to the coast as most of our curlews head to the Central and Imperial Valleys of CA and down into Mexico!

Our transmitters don't actually tell us each physical stop they make, they just show us points when the satellite sends a signal back and forth with the transmitter.

Update 6/24/20 by Heather M. Hayes:

Dozer's second nest failure was due to abandonment :( I checked the nest on hatch date (June 14th) and the chicks had just started hatching, but neither parent was around the nest, whereas if the nest was successful, the parents and other curlews would have been mobbing and alarm calling on my approach. I came back the next day and there was again no incubating bird and the eggs were cold. In cases like these, we can only speculate reasons behind the failure- and we were thinking maybe something had happened to the female and the male didn't head back to the nest. (I did see the male on the roadside walking around when he in fact should have been incubating).

The names we give the birds are temporary "field" names, as we typically have a big naming contest with the local school students where we give our outreach presentations. But the reason this temporary nest name of "Dozer" was given was because I found the female, sleeping standing up in a field. This was pretty early in the season as were we only in the mapping stages of where curlews were being observed. I was watching from my car for about 20 minutes and was surprised to see her wake quickly (like an alarm went off!) and she started running through the field for about 200m, then I saw the silhouette of the male rise up and take off while she then sat where he was- indicating they had just completed their nest switch!


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The Curlew Crew - June 19 at 5:00 PM ·
WHOA- this just in!!!!
As promised, the southbound curlew migration season is heating up 🔥🔥!! Check out this exciting update from our new 2020 study site in the West Central Mountains…

The Curlew Crew was successful in the safe capture and transmitter deployment for 3 curlews - a male (LV) and female (MN) from 2 separate nests in New Meadows and a male (MV) in Indian Valley. The female is still on site tending to her chicks, but it appears that the 2 males left just this week and flew directly over our curlew study sites in SW Idaho! In just a few short days, it appears the New Meadows male is now near Modesto, CA and the Indian Valley male is NE of Reno.

Could these areas be their final wintering ground destinations? Will they continue all the way to the coast? OR…Might they be resting up only to surprise us and turn southeast and head to Mexico??? Where do YOU think they will end up? Leave your guesses in the comments below 👇

FYI: Since these birds are new to the 2020 study, they are not uploaded to the satellite tracking map yet, but don’t worry, we will be updating everyone here, so stay tuned as this exciting migratory mystery keeps unfolding!

(*Up-close curlew shots were zoomed and cropped as researchers maintained social distancing)
_________________________________________________

© All Rights Reserved

Long-billed Curlew, male, Morro Strand State Beach, Morro Bay, CA

Taken on June 21, 2020 (uploaded 6/23/20)

MV: DOZER," banded and fitted with a satellite transmitter in May 2020 by the Intermountain Bird Observatory at his breeding grounds in Indian Valley in the West Central Mountains of Idaho. He migrated out about June 17, 2020.

Heather M Hayes (heathermhayes@boisestate.edu)
_________________________________________________
INTERMOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/IBOsCurlewCrew/

FACEBOOK
The Curlew Crew - June 29 at 5:00 PM ·

BREAKING NEWS!

Can you guess what coastal Morro Bay, CA and Idaho’s West Central Mountains have in common? Two of the Curlew Crew’s newest members to the study flock- curlews Neil (LV) from New Meadows and Dozer (MV) from Indian Valley, that's what!!

If you recall from our post last week, these 2 males began their southbound migration a bit early, as males usually stick around ‘til mid-June to early July. The satellite transmitter data indicated that Neil was near Modesto, CA and Dozer was outside of Reno, NV. Within a few short days, the next transmissions from both birds were pinging from the Morro Bay area. This is extremely exciting as these are the very first curlews from any of our breeding research study sites to migrate directly to Coastal California to overwinter 😲!

So why is this new research discovery so important? Because as we piece the migratory connectivity puzzle together, we can work toward ensuring conservation measures are in place to protect the habitats and resources curlews need along their migratory routes throughout their entire annual life cycle.

A big, BIG thank you to our partner Payette Children's Forest whose funding made this research possible in the West Central Mountains👍

Enjoy this fantastic video that was sent to us from an amatuer birder visiting Morro Bay just days after Dozer's arrival! She captured him doing what his namesake implies, as he nestles into the sand for a snooze~ doesn't that sound good right about now?!

www.boisestate.edu/ibo/curlews/

This is so exciting!! The Intermountain bird Observatory has been studying Long-billed curlews since 2009 as local populations in SW ID have been in a ~ 95% decline. We began tracking their migration through use of satellite transmitters since 2013 to learn more about their migratory connectivity and to try to find out the reasons for their decline. We have discovered the illegal shooting on the public lands is one of the main driving factors for this decline :(

It was Dozer you spotted! He was part of our new mountain study - from Indian Valley about an hour out of New Meadows :) Unfortunately both of Dozers nests had failed, the first one due to predation in an alfalfa field and I suspect it was either Ravens or magpies :-( The second nest failure was due to abandonment.

Dozer began his migration about June 17, 2020. He presumably arrived in the Morro Bay area June 20, 2020. This is particularly exciting for us because this is our very first Curlew to head straight to the coast as most of our curlews head to the Central and Imperial Valleys of CA and down into Mexico!

Our transmitters don't actually tell us each physical stop they make, they just show us points when the satellite sends a signal back and forth with the transmitter.

Update 6/24/20 by Heather M. Hayes:

Dozer's second nest failure was due to abandonment :( I checked the nest on hatch date (June 14th) and the chicks had just started hatching, but neither parent was around the nest, whereas if the nest was successful, the parents and other curlews would have been mobbing and alarm calling on my approach. I came back the next day and there was again no incubating bird and the eggs were cold. In cases like these, we can only speculate reasons behind the failure- and we were thinking maybe something had happened to the female and the male didn't head back to the nest. (I did see the male on the roadside walking around when he in fact should have been incubating).

The names we give the birds are temporary "field" names, as we typically have a big naming contest with the local school students where we give our outreach presentations. But the reason this temporary nest name of "Dozer" was given was because I found the female, sleeping standing up in a field. This was pretty early in the season as were we only in the mapping stages of where curlews were being observed. I was watching from my car for about 20 minutes and was surprised to see her wake quickly (like an alarm went off!) and she started running through the field for about 200m, then I saw the silhouette of the male rise up and take off while she then sat where he was- indicating they had just completed their nest switch!


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The Curlew Crew - June 19 at 5:00 PM ·
WHOA- this just in!!!!
As promised, the southbound curlew migration season is heating up 🔥🔥!! Check out this exciting update from our new 2020 study site in the West Central Mountains…

The Curlew Crew was successful in the safe capture and transmitter deployment for 3 curlews - a male (LV) and female (MN) from 2 separate nests in New Meadows and a male (MV) in Indian Valley. The female is still on site tending to her chicks, but it appears that the 2 males left just this week and flew directly over our curlew study sites in SW Idaho! In just a few short days, it appears the New Meadows male is now near Modesto, CA and the Indian Valley male is NE of Reno.

Could these areas be their final wintering ground destinations? Will they continue all the way to the coast? OR…Might they be resting up only to surprise us and turn southeast and head to Mexico??? Where do YOU think they will end up? Leave your guesses in the comments below 👇

FYI: Since these birds are new to the 2020 study, they are not uploaded to the satellite tracking map yet, but don’t worry, we will be updating everyone here, so stay tuned as this exciting migratory mystery keeps unfolding!

(*Up-close curlew shots were zoomed and cropped as researchers maintained social distancing)
_________________________________________________

© All Rights Reserved

Long-billed Curlew, male, Morro Strand State Beach, Morro Bay, CA

Taken on June 21, 2020 (uploaded 6/23/20)

MV: DOZER," banded and fitted with a satellite transmitter in May 2020 by the Intermountain Bird Observatory at his breeding grounds in Indian Valley in the West Central Mountains of Idaho. He migrated out about June 17, 2020."

Heather M Hayes (heathermhayes@boisestate.edu)
_________________________________________________
INTERMOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/IBOsCurlewCrew/

FACEBOOK
The Curlew Crew - June 29 at 5:00 PM ·

BREAKING NEWS!

Can you guess what coastal Morro Bay, CA and Idaho’s West Central Mountains have in common? Two of the Curlew Crew’s newest members to the study flock- curlews Neil (LV) from New Meadows and Dozer (MV) from Indian Valley, that's what!!

If you recall from our post last week, these 2 males began their southbound migration a bit early, as males usually stick around ‘til mid-June to early July. The satellite transmitter data indicated that Neil was near Modesto, CA and Dozer was outside of Reno, NV. Within a few short days, the next transmissions from both birds were pinging from the Morro Bay area. This is extremely exciting as these are the very first curlews from any of our breeding research study sites to migrate directly to Coastal California to overwinter 😲!

So why is this new research discovery so important? Because as we piece the migratory connectivity puzzle together, we can work toward ensuring conservation measures are in place to protect the habitats and resources curlews need along their migratory routes throughout their entire annual life cycle.

A big, BIG thank you to our partner Payette Children's Forest whose funding made this research possible in the West Central Mountains👍

Enjoy this fantastic video that was sent to us from an amatuer birder visiting Morro Bay just days after Dozer's arrival! She captured him doing what his namesake implies, as he nestles into the sand for a snooze~ doesn't that sound good right about now?!

www.boisestate.edu/ibo/curlews/

This is so exciting!! The Intermountain bird Observatory has been studying Long-billed curlews since 2009 as local populations in SW ID have been in a ~ 95% decline. We began tracking their migration through use of satellite transmitters since 2013 to learn more about their migratory connectivity and to try to find out the reasons for their decline. We have discovered the illegal shooting on the public lands is one of the main driving factors for this decline :(

It was Dozer you spotted! He was part of our new mountain study - from Indian Valley about an hour out of New Meadows :) Unfortunately both of Dozers nests had failed, the first one due to predation in an alfalfa field and I suspect it was either Ravens or magpies :-( The second nest failure was due to abandonment.

Dozer began his migration about June 17, 2020. He presumably arrived in the Morro Bay area June 20, 2020. This is particularly exciting for us because this is our very first Curlew to head straight to the coast as most of our curlews head to the Central and Imperial Valleys of CA and down into Mexico!

Our transmitters don't actually tell us each physical stop they make, they just show us points when the satellite sends a signal back and forth with the transmitter.

Update 6/24/20 by Heather M. Hayes:

Dozer's second nest failure was due to abandonment :( I checked the nest on hatch date (June 14th) and the chicks had just started hatching, but neither parent was around the nest, whereas if the nest was successful, the parents and other curlews would have been mobbing and alarm calling on my approach. I came back the next day and there was again no incubating bird and the eggs were cold. In cases like these, we can only speculate reasons behind the failure- and we were thinking maybe something had happened to the female and the male didn't head back to the nest. (I did see the male on the roadside walking around when he in fact should have been incubating).

The names we give the birds are temporary "field" names, as we typically have a big naming contest with the local school students where we give our outreach presentations. But the reason this temporary nest name of "Dozer" was given was because I found the female, sleeping standing up in a field. This was pretty early in the season as were we only in the mapping stages of where curlews were being observed. I was watching from my car for about 20 minutes and was surprised to see her wake quickly (like an alarm went off!) and she started running through the field for about 200m, then I saw the silhouette of the male rise up and take off while she then sat where he was- indicating they had just completed their nest switch!


FACEBOOK

The Curlew Crew - June 19 at 5:00 PM ·
WHOA- this just in!!!!
As promised, the southbound curlew migration season is heating up 🔥🔥!! Check out this exciting update from our new 2020 study site in the West Central Mountains…

The Curlew Crew was successful in the safe capture and transmitter deployment for 3 curlews - a male (LV) and female (MN) from 2 separate nests in New Meadows and a male (MV) in Indian Valley. The female is still on site tending to her chicks, but it appears that the 2 males left just this week and flew directly over our curlew study sites in SW Idaho! In just a few short days, it appears the New Meadows male is now near Modesto, CA and the Indian Valley male is NE of Reno.

Could these areas be their final wintering ground destinations? Will they continue all the way to the coast? OR…Might they be resting up only to surprise us and turn southeast and head to Mexico??? Where do YOU think they will end up? Leave your guesses in the comments below 👇

FYI: Since these birds are new to the 2020 study, they are not uploaded to the satellite tracking map yet, but don’t worry, we will be updating everyone here, so stay tuned as this exciting migratory mystery keeps unfolding!

(*Up-close curlew shots were zoomed and cropped as researchers maintained social distancing)
_________________________________________________

© All Rights Reserved