Natural History Wanderings

Birdwatch Magazine reported on the discovery that Northern Wheatears migrate even further than previous thought. Already know for a long migration research has found they migrate 9000 miles! Birdwatch reported

It has long been known that individuals of the Greenland subspecies Oenanthe oenanthe leucorhoa travel as far as South Africa, but now it has been shown that Alaskan birds also continue to make a journey to the Old World, travelling 9,000 miles across central Eurasia to Central and East Africa. Eastern Canadian birds cross the Atlantic, travelling 2,200 miles across open ocean to use Britain and Ireland as staging posts, like their Greenland cousins.

Read the full story at Wheatears travel even further than was thought | News | Birdwatch Magazine.