Pingasut

Black-bellied Plover Tracking (Canada)

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click map for full-size version Pingasut (Black-bellied Plover) is 17 km NW off the coast of Canada and 868 km from Mag Pole

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Species: Black-bellied Plover
Life Stage: Adult
Gender: Unknown
Release Date: 2014-07-04 15:07:00
Release Location:
Last Location: 2026-07-10 20:41:30

Background

Pingasut (pronounced peen-ya-soot) is the Inuktitut word for 'three' because it was the third bird we deployed a transmitter on this field season. Inuktitut is one of the Inuit languages of Nunavut in northern Canada, where Pingasut's breeding grounds are located.