Navarre is a young woodcock we caught in Bakaiku (province of Navarre on March 2007); the bird is a female (known by genetic analysis). Navarre went up to Russia, came back to 11 km from the point she was released (traveling more than 7,600 km).
According to some European people in charge of the most famous clubs of woodcock hunters, our Navarre has almost become a kind of mythological hero.
We did know about the woodcock’s habitats and habits. In this particular case, Navarre has proved that she has come back right to her winter resting place, the beautiful beech grove of Aralar.
More than that, in order to reach her winter place to stay resting, she has had to come along very different places where the hunting period was opened: many different European regions with hunters everywhere. This is why some European fellows have defined her as iron woodcock.
Being female, almost a mythological hero, and, above all, an iron woodcock, some friends of ours wish this bird had lots of chickens, just to give them her biological strength and her intuition, so that her chickens could be also able to solve all these dangerous obstacles.
Long live Navarre!As William Shakespeare wrote, Navarre shall be the wonder of the World.
According to some European people in charge of the most famous clubs of woodcock hunters, our Navarre has almost become a kind of mythological hero.
We did know about the woodcock’s habitats and habits. In this particular case, Navarre has proved that she has come back right to her winter resting place, the beautiful beech grove of Aralar.
More than that, in order to reach her winter place to stay resting, she has had to come along very different places where the hunting period was opened: many different European regions with hunters everywhere. This is why some European fellows have defined her as iron woodcock.
Being female, almost a mythological hero, and, above all, an iron woodcock, some friends of ours wish this bird had lots of chickens, just to give them her biological strength and her intuition, so that her chickens could be also able to solve all these dangerous obstacles.
Long live Navarre!As William Shakespeare wrote, Navarre shall be the wonder of the World.
For more information, see
https://www.microwavetelemetry.com/uploads/NewsletterPDFs/MTINewsletter_2008_Spring_page6.pdf
