Island Girl Flies Past Caldera

Island Girl is following the same general coastal route as most of the other the other Chilean birds that we have tagged over the past two seasons. Yesterday, she flew 280 km (174 miles) north across the Atacama Desert and passed by Caldera, fairly near to where we trapped Arena two years ago and about 7 miles from where we banded another adult male peregrine last month (Bahia Ingles).

She continued on and apparently roosted in the coastal hills north of Caldera.

Looks like she may have slept on the ground atop a dry ridge, although we have found that, as good as it is, it is still very difficult to identify the precise habitat from Google Earth.

One thing we can say for certain is that she is in an extremely dry area.