Researchers fitted a GPS tracking device onto a European honey buzzard and were quite surprised to find just how far the bird flew over its seasonal migrations.
These are not the only animals that move to survive. Many species of fish migrate back upriver systems in order to spawn and turtles swim thousands of kilometres annually to the very same beaches to lay their eggs. The undisputable champions of migration, however, are birds.
The pandemic has made air travel rather tedious for us wingless humans but a bird does not have to bother with these trivial matters. . “The female European honey buzzard was fitted with a satellite tracking system in Finland recently and was of particular interest to locals because it spent the most recent austral summer around the town of Reitz in the Free State in South Africa.”
This bird covered an average of 230km a day for 42 days, racking up a journey total of just under 10 000km. She is predicted to return to South Africa in October or November for the Southern summer.
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