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Where are they now?

Who knew following American Golden-Plovers equipped with 3.5-gram PinPoint GPS Argos tags could teach us so much? Here's where they went along their southbound migration from Alaska to South America.

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Please note: This information is meant for educational purposes only. Data has been obscured spatially and temporally at large map scales to protect the tagged individuals from human disturbance. American Golden-Plovers face myriad risks on their epic migration journeys, including recreational disturbance, climate change, habitat loss, inclement weather, and natural predators.

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Tracking data updated 11/06/23

Data from the individual birds

A recap of their southbound migration.

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This website is jointly managed by Audubon Alaska, Audubon's Boreal Conservation Program, Audubon Americas, Manomet, Inc. and the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Alaska Region, and the Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Initiative solely for the purposes of highlighting the migration journey of the American Golden-Plover. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not responsible for content posted on Manomet or Audubon websites or social media channels, nor are links to any non-federal channels on this website an endorsement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, or U.S. federal government.

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Photos by Shiloh Schulte/USFWS unless credited otherwise.

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