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Male Marbled Godwit 26 May
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Little is known about the James Bay
breeding population of Marbled Godwits, which probably totals about
1500 individuals on the west coast of James Bay in Ontario, on Akimiski Island
in Nunavut, and on the south coast of James Bay in Quebec. |
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Female Marbled Godwit on
26 May 2008 |
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Bridget Olson, US Fish and Wildlife
Service, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah, and Adrian Farmer, US Geological Survey
in Fort Collins, Colorado, came to Akimiski
Island to put satellite transmitters on five Marbled Godwits. Bridget
holds a male (left) and Adrian holds a female (right),
which had been caught in mist nets. 27 May 2007. |
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The female (right) has a longer bill than
the male (left). The male's bill is bright orange at the base, whereas
the female's bill is paler and pinker. Females average
larger and heavier than males. 27 May 2008. |
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Bridget and Adrian attached a solar
powered satellite transmitter to the backs of three female and two male
Marbled Godwits to track their movements on the breeding
grounds, and eventually their southbound migration route and wintering
grounds. See last
year's migration route of an Akimiski Marbled Godwit:
http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Resources/GoGodwits/ |
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