Tracking the migration of Pacific Golden-Plovers from nonbreeding grounds at Moorea, French Polynesia, using Pinpoint GPS-Argos tags

• Published in: Wader Study
• Main Authors: Johnson, Oscar W., Tibbitts, T. Lee, Weber, Michael F., Bybee, David R., Goodwill, Roger H., Bruner, Andrea E., Smith, Errika J., Buss, Emmalee L., Waddell, Trinity Q. A., Brooks, Daxton C., Smith, Carolyn D., Meyer, Jean-Yves
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Kamchatka Krai; Pacific; Chukotka; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/16430

We used Pinpoint GPS-Argos tags to track migration of Pacific Golden-Plovers Pluvialis fulva in 2017 and 2018 from Moorea Island, at the extreme southeastern edge of the species’ winter range. Of 20 tagged birds, 13 uploaded locations during all or part of their northward migration. The birds depart...