7,700-Mile Mystery: ; How Did Monitoring Tag Make the Trip From Pacific Northwest Fish to Bird in New Zealand?
Sunday Gazette-Mail › August 20, 2007
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SEATTLE - Bird researcher Dale Whaitiri was on an island off southern New Zealand examining the stomach contents of a baby seabird when an electronic device the size of a grain of rice spilled from the bird's gullet.
The monitoring tag had been planted years before in a juvenile steelhead - on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. But this chick was too young to fly - let alone eat fish.See the full content of this document
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7,700-Mile Mystery: ; How Did Monitoring Tag Make the Trip From Pacific Northwest Fish to Bird in New Zealand?
The discovery has launched a tale of scientific intrigue spanning 7,700 miles across the Pacific Ocean. Ho...
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