Tierra del Fuego 2018

We continued our work in Tierra del Fuego to help track the recovery of the red knot.  After years of decline, all secondary wintering areas lost birds. Bahia Lomas lost birds as well, the population falling from a high of 56,000 to less than 10,000.   Our funding renewed from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation we continued trapping and monitoring knots other shorebirds.  Working with Manomet Center we met with the mayor of Cerro Sombrero to create a new bird observatory.  We returned to Bahia Lomas in 2018 to continue our counting and trapping.  We attached MOTUS transmitters, tiny VHF units with a range of at most 20 miles, but supported by a network of 1000 receiving stations scattered throughout the hemisphere.  We visited the University of Santo Thomas Center for Bahia Lomas.