Home • Register • Forum • RSS • User List • Login Your trail: > Home > Migration Tracking Migration Tracking Shot this @ a lake near Somnathpur. Only during processing i noticed a ring on the neck of the bird @ bottom left. Is this for tracking the migration, it would be great if experts share some knowledge on this method. Poster: Niranjan.M Views: 1880 Tags: Niranjan.M  December  2007  Somnathpur, Mysore      Canon 400D  100-400 1.4X    Critique  Date: Dec 27, 2007

Comments:

Nitin.S     wrote, @27-12-2007 09:20:07 Wow.. this is a nice record..

Rajesh Shah     wrote, @27-12-2007 09:21:43 Hi Niranjan, thats a super shot. normally birds are ringed including waterfowl as big as geese.

Shyamal L     wrote, @27-12-2007 09:27:20 Seems like a Chinese ringing project - Yellow is not mentioned here http://www.chinabird.org/Report%20on%20Color%20Marking%20of%20Waterbirds%20in%20Central%20Asia-India%20Flyway%A3%A8CE%A3%A9.doc But I sent out a mail to one of the people on that list with a link to this image.

Ravinarayana Chakravarthy     wrote, @27-12-2007 09:52:10 Nice shot;good observation!

Shyamal L     wrote, @29-12-2007 08:19:55 Hi Niranjan, Could you please get in touch with Gopisundar - email below. ------------------------------------------------ Hi Shyamal, The banded bar-headed goose was in a batch marked in Hovsgol Mongolia this year by Martin Gilbert of WCS. Do you have Niranjan's email? I wanted to get more details of the site, date etc. His email is not up on the list. Thanks for the link. Gopi. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K.S. Gopi Sundar Research Associate (India) International Crane Foundation E-11376, Shady Lane Road, Baraboo, WI-53913-0447, USA. Ph: 608-356-9462. AND Principal Coordinator, Indian Cranes and Wetlands Working Group C/o Wildlife Protection Society of India S-25, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110017, India. Ph: (91-11) - 41635920 Fax: (91-11) - 41635924.

Shyamal L     wrote, @29-12-2007 08:30:02 Sorry - missed Gopi Sundar's email - it is gopi.sundar at gmail dot com

Shyamal L     wrote, @29-12-2007 17:35:57 See http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.com/2007/08/alert-colour-marking-of-swans-and-geese.html (link courtesy Venukrishna Prasad - bngbirds)

Shyamal L     wrote, @29-12-2007 20:56:51 Gopi has got in touch with Martin Gilbert (martin.gilbert at wcs. org) and has obtained the following information (minus the attachments showing Google Earth direct line from banding site to resighting) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Judging from the photo, the bird is a male tagged with the collar E6. He was caught on 19 July 2007 in the Darkhad Valley in the northern Mongolian aimag of Hovsgol (N: 99.41078, E: 51.19736). He was one of 50 Bar-headed Geese we fitted with collars in July, and is the first for which we have received resighting information. Based on the information given, the bird has travelled a direct line distance of ~4,780 km! I am attaching a couple of images that might be of interest to the photographer including one of the bird himself at capture, a map indicating the area of capture, and direct line track between the two. I'd be grateful if you could pass them onto him and am also including a GAINS factsheet for general information. --

Shyamal L     wrote, @29-12-2007 21:29:39 Martin Gilbert has shared the photograph (with permission) of the same Goose in Mongolia at the time of ringing. I have uploaded it here on behalf of Gopi Sundar who has obtained explicit permission from Martin. http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayimage.php?id=34412

Anand Yaligar     wrote, @30-12-2007 11:34:55 wow...what a story....really amazing

Yogendra Shah     wrote, @30-12-2007 11:54:27 beauty record....great work

Shyamal L     wrote, @30-12-2007 12:02:54 Madhukar, this is one of 50 bar-heads marked as part of an avian flu related monitoring program. The bird was captured at the following Google Earth location 101.1029690999608 51.44279198221215 0 108772.597881878 4.941199726832059e-012 4.60042947125327

Shiva Shankar Manjunatha     wrote, @30-12-2007 22:43:55 thanks to internet and supporting technology

Manoj N. Kulkarni     wrote, @03-01-2008 00:03:32 I am very Happy ! Feeling Lucky ! ! ! Dhanyawad ! ! ! Mai Dhanya ho Gaya ! ! ! Thanks INW I Cant express it in word what I'm feeling. To listen the whisper of wings come to solapur. :)

Deepa Mohan     wrote, @14-02-2008 20:15:32 This picture was featured in the New YorK times of Jan 29, 2008. I am bringing the paper to give it to you, Niranjan. Unfortunately, you are not mentioned by name in the article, only as "a chap"! and in the picture credit your name is wrongly spelt.

Ananth H S     wrote, @25-03-2008 17:24:50 Thanks for sharing such a wonerful happening of the incredible Nature ! such dedicated work in needed much to make an awareness about birds Migration. Nice Picture.

Deepa Mohan     wrote, @01-10-2009 00:50:20 The link to the article in the New York Times, along with the displayed photograph, is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/science/29gees.html

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