Pingasut - Black-bellied Plover Tracking (Canada)

A project of Canadian Wildlife Service.

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Pingasut (Black-bellied Plover) is 17 km NW off the coast of Canada and 868 km from Mag Pole

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.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
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• 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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