An Avocet's Travels

American Avocet 39’s (AMAV39) year long journey detailed by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) GPS tracking data. AMAV39’s flight path, represented by a purple line, starts in the Great Basin at Summer Lake in July 2023 then heads to Lake Abert in October 2023. Between October – December 2023 AMAV39’s flight path zooms down the Western United States to its winter nesting grounds at the Marismas Nacionales–San Blas mangroves in Mexico. In January 2024 AMAV39 slowly makes its way back north along the west coast of Mexico into the Western United States. In July 2024 AMAV 39 returns to its former nesting grounds in the Great Basin at Summer Lake. In total AMAV39 flew 3,690 miles. For more details on AMAV 39’s journey read the USGS Science Snippet new story “An Avocet’s Travels”.