Long Haul Pintail

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Then he downloaded the full dataset, which revealed the bird’s incredible ten-thousand-mile journey—made all on her own two wings. After leaving Louisiana in early March, the duck headed to the eastern Dakotas, to the Prairie Pothole Region, which stretches into Canada and sees the majority of pintail nesting and summering. But then she went offline for six months. “She finally hit service again on a state penitentiary campus in Northern California, of all places,” Link says. Between, she’d flown across northwestern Canada, passed through Alaska, crossed the Bering Sea, and arrived in Russia in May, becoming the first pintail Link—or anyone else—has ever seen cruising to a new continent from down South.

To Russia and Back: The Incredible Journey of a Pintail Duck

New data reveals flight trajectories far beyond what researchers previously imagined

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[Trailsend]

That’s pretty cool!

 

[buck23]

That is truly an amazing flight. I have shot a few Pintails along the NC coast really a beautiful bird. Thanks.

 

[SO7mm]

That's awesome.

 

[Nick87]

Unreal.