The fellow in charge of the project, Clay Green, was fairly quickly found and kindly gave permission to post about his project here. To visit his site, click here - waterbird colony research awaits!
Because the bird is so young, there's not much data on it:
I dont know much more about the bird but it has been foraging along Texas coast since it fledged the nest in July. We have been tracking it regularly, we get latitude-longtidue fixes every 48 hours... Attached is a jpeg map of the bird's movement, we just banded it in June so it hasn't moved that much, but you can see at least where it has been going...
So this young one hatched in June of 2010, was banded in July, and this map shows through the middle of September:
With those dots representing 48 hr intervals, the huge gaps are distances covered in only two days. Dot clusters then show places that the bird loitered for extended amounts of time. I wonder if it will return to the rookery where it hatched to breed?
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