Elizabetha Slows Down In Honduras

Elizabetha remains within 30 km of the Caribbean coast in Honduras. She flew only 13 km (8 miles) yesterday, some of that involving back-tracking.

She is travelling much slower than Sparrow King and is apparently in no rush to get back to Chile.

This is another example of an adult female, like Linda last year, simply taking her time migrating south. This is in great contrast to her recent world record flight along the eastern seaboard of the US.

What we are learning is that some adult female tundra peregrines take more time than expected to migrate to South America.

In fact, the first North American satellite-tagged peregrine to ever reach South America (tagged by Bill Seegar at Assateague Island) in the early 1990's arrived in Argentina in December, much later than anyone expected.