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Watch for Shorebirds with Colored Flags!

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Some make stopovers along Florida’s coast, others fly straight from stopovers in the northern states to the coast of South America. As shorebirds look for suitable sites to spend up to 9 months in their wintering grounds, biologists with the Pan-American Shorebird Banding Program also start preparing for a new banding campaign.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

10,000 Birds

But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. Eighty hours of flying.

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