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This Is What It Looks like When Thousands of Migratory Birds Descend on Peru
This Is What It Looks like When Thousands of Migratory Birds Descend on Peru
Translation posted 22 December 2015 3:33 GMT
By mid December, as part of their migratory process, thousands of Franklin's gulls arrive to the Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge, at Chorrillos district, in Peruvian capital Lima. Most of these birds fly along many kilometers from Canada, Mexico, California Gulf and Central America leaving behind Northern Hemisphere winter season on the journey they embrace during November and December:
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The species spotted are Franklin's gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan), elegant tern (Thalasseus elegans), semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus), Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) and sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis), among other migrant birds from up north.
This bird in named after the British Royal Navy officer and arctic explorer John Franklin.
On her Facebook page, ornithologist Irma Franke shared the spectacle offered by the birds as they went through Lima in late November:
It snowed in Lima today. At least, that's what I thought until I realized it was 30,000 Franklin's Gulls. This was just on one small section of beach south of Lima; all told we probably saw around 300,000 individuals today. Incredible movement, migration spectacle, it was an awesome event. No passports required.
More:
https://globalvoices.org/2015/12/22/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-thousands-of-migratory-birds-descend-on-peru/
Science:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122844378
