That is pretty cool. Do they capture timings on how long their stops were in places, especially like how long did it spend in Brazil?
Yes, I will update again when I find out how much time it spent in each location.
Regarding the different paths. All I know to tell y’all right now is that they use constellations to navigate. I know in the spring that they definitely use cold fronts to help them make the push north. That’s a causal observation on my part over the past 20 years. When the migration is underway, I always have varying numbers of them show up after a cold front has passed. In the fall, they may just take the path of least resistance to get there. We don’t have cold fronts that make it far enough south in late summer to really help them move south.
This bird was the first one to return to the SE with a geolocator. Another landlord in GA had some installed as well, and her first bird returned with a geo last week. It took different paths in the fall and spring as well. It jumped from Pensacola to the Yucatán on the way down. It came back on a very similar route to mine this spring.
