Campercaillie
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Each and every year I marvel as the swallows line up on the telephone wires in preparation for their migration to Sub-Saharan Africa. Not so long before, some of them will have been tiny little scraps of life in the nest - so what an undertaking for such a delicate little bird. Anyway - I digress....In 2012, a red-necked phalarope, itself a very delicate little bird, was tagged prior to migration from The Shetlands. Its little tag showed it had migrated NW initially, against the prevailing winds - to Iceland, Greenland, down the east coast of Canada and the USA, into The Carribean, and finally, ending up on the Pacific shores of Peru and Ecuador, a trip of 8,000 miles - and then of course, after a bit of R & R, it was back again to The Shetlands. Quite remarkable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25661650
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25661650
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