Atausiq

Black-bellied Plover Tracking (Canada)

A project of Canadian Wildlife Service.

click map for full-size version Atausiq (Black-bellied Plover) is 16 km S off the coast of Honduras and 348 km from Tegucigalpa

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Species: Black-bellied Plover
Life Stage: Adult
Gender: Unknown
Release Date: 2014-07-03 00:00:00
Release Location: Polar Bear Pass National Wildlife Area/Bathurst Island, Canada
Last Location: 2014-12-26 22:08:30

Background

Atausiq (pronounced ah-taow-sick) is the Inuktitut word for 'one' because it was the first bird we deployed a transmitter on this field season. Inuktitut is one of the Inuit languages of Nunavut in northern Canada, where Atausiq's breeding grounds are located.