AE - Emmett (ACEC) - Migration of Long-billed Curlews from the Intermountain West

A project of Intermountain Bird Observatory.

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Map of Long-billed Curlew (CA)

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Male Long-billed Curlew with alpha flag "AE" captured and released on 3 June 2013.

Location: The Long-billed Curlew Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) between Middleton and Emmett, Idaho.

Namesake: The town of Emmett, Idaho, near his summer home on the ACEC. Emmett’s name was chosen by IBO’s Facebook fans.

Emmett is the 5th Curlew captured for our study. He and his mate, 'Ada', had 4 chicks hatch on June 5th, 2013.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'B', 'Z', 'X' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
• Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
• Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.

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