News from the Falcon Research Group
A newsletter I received from the Falcon Research Group in Bow Washington reported on a peregrine falcon named Elizabetha, who is an adult female and tagged in Chile on January 21, 2008 as part of the Southern Cross Peregrine Project. She migrated north from Chile all the way to Baffin Island, Canada to breed last summer. In September, after her chick fledged, she began her migration south following the classic US east coast flyway route. The amazing thing is on October 19th she was off the coast of New Jersey and got caught in Hurricane Omar. The newsletter states, “With solid tailwinds, she flew south all the way to Palm Beach, Florida in a day, a distance of at least 954 miles and a knock out world record. None of us had ever dreamed that a peregrine could fly that far in a single day. This is yet another example satellite transmitters are revolutionizing our understanding of so many organisms worldwide.”
For more information on the Falcon Research Group, go to www.frg.org