San Antonio Oeste, 09/18/1910. - While the Legislature río Negro considers a law to declare the conservation of shorebirds and their habitats of provincial interest, comes the news that a Red Knot identified by its flag [1] as Y0Y, has established a new world record for the species in a continuous flight of 6 days that traveled 8,000 km, without stopping to drink, eat or rest. In mid October 2009, Y0Y reached the coast of Rio Negro where he stayed 173 days moving between the mouth of Black River and San Antonio West-Las Grutas. As of March 2010 was prepared for the migration to Arctic Canada, accumulating fat on a diet of mejillines, sea worms, small clams and crabs during low tide, combined with good hours of rest in the high tides. On March 13, 2010 was seen through telescopes Inalafquen Foundation researchers at the beaches of Natural Protected Area Bahía de San Antonio between Oasis and the Interpretation Center and Bird Observatory "Latitude Flight 40" that this institution has in place. After his long stay in Black River began migrating north 1st. April, flying 1,000 km in 24 hours to the beaches located in Barra del Chui the border between Uruguay and Brazil. He remained there 36 days and was also spotted by researchers working in the monitoring of this species. The flight of 6 marathon day began on May 8, 2010, crossed the Amazon and the Atlantic Ocean and ended on the coast of North Carolina in EEUU.Conocemos details Y0Y feat with so precisely because the May 11, 2009 was captured by researchers in the Delaware Bay, East Coast U.S. who was placed a small "geolocator" of less than 2g of weight on top of one of his legs. At that time Y0Y weighed 125g. Seventeen days later, and probably about 200 g in weight, flew to their breeding grounds in Arctic Canada, where he remained 69 days to start your journey to Black River. In May 2010, after record flight, was captured again in Delaware Bay by the same researchers, who removed the chip and analyzed geolocator information. This instrument records changes in light and dark periods as well as salinity and thus it is possible to infer the latitude and longitude of the places visited by the ave.Estos results have just been published by researchers from USA, Canada, Argentina and other countries in the international scientific journal "Wader Study Group Bulletin. The data revealed by this publication, confirm the fundamental role of the Río Negro beaches to the survival of the red knot, a species that unfortunately is in danger of extinction. And also reinforce the need to protect the diverse environments that use along their migratory route, in particular avoiding the disturbances on their feeding and roosting sites, the backbone of the Campaign for Environmental Education and Social Marketing Foundation carries forward Inalafquen Rare conjunction with Conservation, Manomet Center, Ministry of Education of Black River, CODEMA, City of San Antonio Oeste and the contribution of many volunteers neighbors Protected Natural Area of \u200b\u200bSan Antonio.Con Bay Spring is expected at any moment the arrival of red knots on the beaches of our country and has already deployed a network of observers and fans who await the arrival of Y0Y.
-------------- [1] The flags are located at the feet of birds and are plastic rings with a side extension which bears an inscription can be read with the help of telescopes or photographs, which can identify individuals at a distance.
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