Photo above by BarrytheBirder
Photo below by David Chang van Oordt
The Yellow Warbler pictured at right was was netted by University researchers at Cornell, on June 24, 2017, in Ithaca, New York. It had been banded 3 weeks earlier in Coprdoba, Colombia, SA. This recorded band recovery was the first ever between North and South America for a Yellow Warbler, despite the fact that more than 130,000 of them have been banded in northeastern North America alone in the last few decades. It probably made the entire 2,320 mile trip in about three weeks, in its rush to get a jump on the spring mating season.. It also likely made the trip via a single, non-stop flight across the Gulf of Mexico.
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