https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove World On the Move: Great Animal Migrations - latest reports as they come in from the Natural History Unit's ground breaking series en-us Symphony (build 2000) https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/green-turtles-of-madagascar/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/green-turtles-of-madagascar/ Our reporter Tim Healy journeyed to the north-western part of Madagascar to catch a glimpse of the breeding season for Green Turtles on a small remote tropical island called Nosy Sakatia. As this species prefers to arrive on the sandy shores at night and during high tide, Tim, accompanied by Mr Robert a local community conservationist and Giselle Bakary, Marine Biologist, had to wait until 2am in anticipation of a meeting with this incredible creature. Our first night was unsuccessful, but on the second night we were lucky, and now have the opportunity to present you with our audio encounter and pictures of that night with the Green Turtle. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/eels-in-earrings/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/eels-in-earrings/ To try to answer some of the many questions about Eel migration and to find out why the smartest Eels this season are wearing earrings, Mike Dilger set off to Galway, Ireland to join Dave Righton of CEFAS, as his team put tags on Eels before releasing them on their mysterious journey to the Sargasso Sea. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/kingdom-of-the-reindeer/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/kingdom-of-the-reindeer/ For the indigenous Sami people of Lapland the Reindeer is king. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/battle-of-the-salmon-sexes/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/battle-of-the-salmon-sexes/ On a river just outside Builth Wells, Powys, Salmon have arrived to spawn following their epic upstream migration. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tag-a-giant-bluefin-tuna/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tag-a-giant-bluefin-tuna/ The Tag-a-Giant research project has recently attached a satellite tag to its 1000th Bluefin tuna. The project has been underway since 1996 so the Tag-a-Giant scientists have been gathering data on these fish for 12 years. Atlantic Giant Bluefin tuna are one of the ocean's greatest travellers, capable of covering distances of 5,000 miles in just a few months. But the distances they travel are not the only massive thing about them. The biggest Bluefin tuna weigh up to 700 kg, around 10 times the weight of an adult man, and can measure over 3 metres in length. They have two swimming speeds: cruise and "burst". When pursuing prey or escaping predators, these huge fish can shift at a top speed of over 30 miles per hour. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/murmurations-of-starlings/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/murmurations-of-starlings/ Thanks for all your photos - here are a few of your recently uploaded pictures. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/whooping-crane-migration-school/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/whooping-crane-migration-school/ Here's an unusual migration - 3 microlight aircraft and 1 fixed wing aeroplane being pursued by 14 Whooping Crane chicks. For many migrants the first journey is the most important. Imagine then that you are a Whooping Crane chick and your first journey involves following a small aircraft across 7 states of the US - a journey that covers 1285 miles over 3 months. Our reporter, Howard Stableford, has been following this bizarre migration from Wisconsin down to Florida since October. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-5/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-5/ Back in March you may recall that we joined the Large Pelagics Research Centre (LPRC) in an attempt to tag Leatherback Turtles off the coast of Georgia, USA. On that occasion the team failed to get a single turtle - you can watch this video to see how close we came though. Later in the year however, Kara Dodge and her team successfully tagged 12 Leatherbacks off the coast of Massachusetts and the latest news is that they are really motoring through the Atlantic Ocean. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/crying-curlews/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/crying-curlews/ Are there more or less Curlews in your area this year? Please let us know at the foot of the page. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/oceanic-odyssey-of-the-whale-shark/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/oceanic-odyssey-of-the-whale-shark/ Whale Sharks are the world's largest fish - they can grow up to 12 m long. Despite being the size of a bus, they roam the oceans largely undetected - it's believed they make massive migrations but it hasn't been proved before. Shark biologist, Dr Mark Meekan, is using the latest satellite tracking technology to answer this great mystery of the deep. That's if he can attach it to the Whale Shark in the first place of course... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/redwings/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/redwings/ In October and November the first Redwings of autumn arrive with their penetrating sighs piercing the night sky. As Swifts usher in high summer, so these delicate thrushes, with their autumnal tints, are the harbingers of winter evenings. Their nocturnal contact calls around Hallowe’en persuaded our ancestors that witches were riding. Our reporter, Ed Drewitt, went out onto the Bristol Downs at night to listen for the needle-points of sound they make as they pass overhead. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/snow-geese/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/snow-geese/ And now one of the most successful migratory animals on Earth – the Snow Goose. Wildlife film-maker Chadden Hunter ventured to the midst of their breeding grounds this summer in Arctic Canada to record this audio and to take these incredible images. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/saving-green-turtles/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/saving-green-turtles/ On the Kenyan coast, the last Green Turtle hatchlings are preparing to enter the water and start their great migration. Traditionally, these Turtles were caught and sold for food or they ended up in fishermen's nets. Such was the severity of their cause that Green Turtles were eventually listed as a critically endangered species. Philippa speaks to Charlie Mayhew, founder of Tusk, an organisation that believes it can save Green Turtles. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/monarchs-and-the-day-of-the-dead/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/monarchs-and-the-day-of-the-dead/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/monarchs-return-to-mexico/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/monarchs-return-to-mexico/ In the forests of central Mexico where the Monarch Butterflies spend the winter, they are greeted with great reverence. Their arrival coincides with the festival known as the Day of the Dead and the indigenous legend states that these butterflies are actually the souls of the dead returning. The Monarch Butterfly migration has now come full circle but Professor Chip Taylor tells us that this year's population is one of the lowest since records began. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/bewicks-swans-arrive-from-russia/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/bewicks-swans-arrive-from-russia/ There's an old Russian saying: "The Swan brings snow on its bill". To find out whether this rings true, we sent Brett Westwood to WWT Welney on the Ouse Washes in Norfolk. After having a look round on Monday, Brett was able to confirm that the first Bewick's had indeed arrived. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/red-admirals/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/red-admirals/ Red Admiral butterflies are summer creatures but they stay around the UK till September, stragglers can even be seen in November. Lionel Kellaway reports from the Dorset coast where butterfly expert Richard Fox is on migration watch. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/elephant-seals/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/elephant-seals/ Brett talks to Mike Fedak, in South Georgia with the Elephant Seals, and Chadden Hunter, who has recently returned from filming Elephant Seals for a new BBC series entitled Frozen Planet. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/whooper-swans/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/whooper-swans/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/american-vagrants/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/american-vagrants/ Overshot, over-tired and over here. We’ve been treated to a bonanza of lost migrants over the past few weeks as several birds, which breed in the USA and winter in central America, have found themselves on this side of the Atlantic instead. To look around the 360 degree panorama of our reporter, Chris Sperring, on the cliff at Porthgwarra, click and drag your mouse over the image. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mysteries-of-humpback-migration/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mysteries-of-humpback-migration/ We wanted to shed some light on the big questions of Humpback migration so we contacted Professor Scott Baker from Oregon State University. He has been studying Humpbacks in the South Pacific and his work into maternal fidelity might have some answers. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/a-human-migration-story-part-ii/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/a-human-migration-story-part-ii/ After a week-long slog, our reporter, Tessa McGregor has completed this year's transhumance from the mountains around Kotel in Bulgaria to fresh new pastures in the lowlands. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/swimming-with-humpbacks/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/swimming-with-humpbacks/ Yves Lefevre, an underwater photgrapher from French Polynesia, has been about as close to a Humpback as you can get. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips-part-iv/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips-part-iv/ Corrie and Hadrian, our tagged Salmon, have made slow progress up the River Tyne. Brett speaks to CEFAS' Barry Bendall to find out whether this summer's heavy rain is the cause. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/nimrod-in-guinea-bissau/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/nimrod-in-guinea-bissau/ It looks like Nimrod has found his wintering site - some 5250 kilometres (3266 miles) from his nest in Scotland. He's made good progress through NW Africa over the last week and the latest GPS data reveal that Nimrod has found a roost upstream from the village of Cacine in Guinea-Bissau. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-odyssey-of-the-eel/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-odyssey-of-the-eel/ The migration of the Eel is one of natural history's great mysteries - it is assumed that they migrate between the UK and the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda but beyond that we know very little. The Environment Agency is using CCTV on the River Parrett in Somerset to capture images of migrating Elvers (juvenile Eels). https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/nimrod-in-africa/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/nimrod-in-africa/ After a 12 day stop-over in France, Nimrod made an unusual night-time flight through Spain. In total, he flew 2300 kms in 35 hours to north Africa and now he has reached the Gambia. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/a-human-migration-story/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/a-human-migration-story/ Transhumance is the seasonal movement of shepherds and their livestock. They migrate between mountainous and lowland pastures as the seasons change. Transhumance used to be widespread in Bulgaria but the practice was lost under communism. Tessa will be keeping us updated with daily SMS text messages. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/future-of-the-wildebeest-migration/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/future-of-the-wildebeest-migration/ If an increasing human population in Tanzania is leading to an increase in the number of Lions attacks on people, what does the future hold for Wildebeest on the Serengeti? Phillipa speaks to Mike Norton-Griffiths who isn't optimistic. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/submit-your-monarch-butterfly-sighting/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/submit-your-monarch-butterfly-sighting/ Monarch Butterflies are now streaming down through the United States on their way to Mexico and we want to know where you've seen them. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/plethora-of-pink-footed-geese/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/plethora-of-pink-footed-geese/ News reached us this week that numbers of Pink-footed Geese were pouring south into the British Isles from their breeding grounds in Iceland, so on Monday the location producer Paul Harris and I drove up to Martin Mere in Lancashire to see if we could find any... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/simon-king-on-swallows-in-africa/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/simon-king-on-swallows-in-africa/ Simon King joins us for the last time from the Masai Mara in Kenya where he has been presenting Big Cat Live. This week, he and Phillipa discuss the presence of Swallows. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/cultural-significance-of-swallows/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/cultural-significance-of-swallows/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/narwhals-go-awol/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/narwhals-go-awol/ Narwhals are one of the planet's most elusive animals and they have proved it once again. Last month, Dr Kristin Laidre and her team tagged some Narwhals on the NW coast of Greenland. The aim was to follow these incredible creatures on their autumn migration but unfortunately the Narwhals have given them the slip. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/illegal-bird-hunting-on-malta/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/illegal-bird-hunting-on-malta/ The illegal shooting of birds of prey and other protected species on Malta has continued this autumn. Malta is located under an important migration path for a variety of birds and every autumn hunters gun down anything that flies, whether it is protected or not. Brett speaks to RSPB's Grahame Madge who witnessed some harrowing scenes when he joined Raptor Camp on Malta. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/lion-versus-man/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/lion-versus-man/ Human population growth in Africa has reached unprecedented levels. As a result, the Lions and people of Tanzania are coming into conflict more frequently, often with fatal results. Over 100 people a year are now being attacked by Lions. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/jonathan-scott-on-wildebeest/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/jonathan-scott-on-wildebeest/ Jonathan Scott is based on the Masai Mara where the Wildebeest migration continues. As we heard from Simon King last week, most of the Wildebeest have already been across the Mara River but with the rains returning, he thought there might be a chance of them doubling back in search of fresh grass. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/arctic-tern-world-champion-of-migration/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/arctic-tern-world-champion-of-migration/ Arctic Terns are the true, undisputed world champions of migration. They enjoy summer all year round by migrating between the North and South Poles: a round trip of 24,000 miles/38,500 kilometres. The first batches of Arctic Terns have already been spotted heading south and John Aitchison was in Svalbard over the summer to describe them. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/nimrod-takes-off/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/nimrod-takes-off/ Nimrod is go! Nimrod, the latest addition to our Osprey family, is the first male Osprey that Roy Dennis has tagged so it's going to be a great honour to follow his southward migration in such unprecedented detail. Let's hope he finds Logie and her chick Glen safe and sound somewhere in Africa. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/simon-king-on-the-masai-mara/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/simon-king-on-the-masai-mara/ It's wet season on the Masai Mara, which means one thing - Wildebeest, Gazelles, Zebra, Antelopes and all sorts of animals are migrating northwards in search of lush grazing areas. This is good news for the Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs and Simon King who is on the Masai Mara preparing to launch Big Cat Live in the coming weeks. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/house-martins-on-the-move/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/house-martins-on-the-move/ Earlier in the series, we joined up with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to ask you for your sightings of House Martins. We were concerned by low numbers of House Martins this spring but following our survey it's clear that House Martins are still doing well in the UK. It seems they were just very late arriving back from Africa. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-evans-and-moths/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-evans-and-moths/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/swallows-on-the-move/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/swallows-on-the-move/ Swallows up and down the country are preparing for their epic migration back to southern Africa. Phillipa speaks to Mark Thomas from the RSPB and Paul Collins from Spurn Bird Observatory to find out where you can see the spectacle of migrating Swallows. The pair of Swallows that Chris Sperring has been following for World on the Move have now fledged 5 young in total and they will all shortly leave us as they head south for winter. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/moths-on-the-lizard/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/moths-on-the-lizard/ After what seemed like months of grey skies and heavy showers, the weather finally relented last week - the signal for Moth enthusiasts country-wide to spring into action. After last week’s programme I got the call from Mark Tunmore, a migrant Moth expert, who lives in south Cornwall. Pockets of warm air were heading up from southern Europe towards the British Isles he said, carrying with them a potential cargo of scarce and unusual Moths. Moth-ers all along the south coast would be lighting up their traps, hopeful of luring in rarities... was I going to try my luck? https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-bird-eating-bat/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-bird-eating-bat/ The Greater Noctule Bat represents one of the many dangers that face migrating songbirds. Many birds migrate at night to avoid predators but it seems that even in the dark they are not safe - many are eaten by the bird-eating Greater Noctule Bat. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs-part-v/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs-part-v/ The Monarch Butterfly migration is one of the world's largest mass movements. They reached the upper range of their migration (Minnesota, US) in June and are now preparing to make their way back to the forests of central Mexico where they will hibernate for winter. As Karen Oberhauser reports, this year's relay-race migration was slightly unusual. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/rip-moray-the-osprey/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/rip-moray-the-osprey/ Tragic news - Logie's eldest chick Moray has been found dead on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. After Logie herself went missing last week, it's not looking good for this year's Osprey migration. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tracking-the-narwhal/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tracking-the-narwhal/ In North West Greenland, as far as you can travel before hitting the sea ice, you will find the great fjord of Inglefield Bredning. It is here that the world’s most northerly indigenous people live and hunt. Every summer the Inuit of northern Greenland eagerly await the return of one of nature's most bizarre creatures - the Narwhal. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/join-our-flickr-group/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/join-our-flickr-group/ If you want our experts to identify your moths, you'll need to upload your photos to flickr, tag them "garden" and add them to our BBC World on the Move flickr group. You can do this in 4 easy steps: 1. Join Flickr 2. Upload and tag your photos 3. Join the BBC World on the Move group 4. Add your photos to the BBC World on the Move group https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/pebble-mine-controversy/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/pebble-mine-controversy/ Now that the commercial fishing season is finished in Bristol Bay one of the biggest topics of conversation amongst local people is the future of the fishery, and it all centres around the possibility of an enormous mining operation in the area - Pebble Mine. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips-part-iii/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips-part-iii/ Migration is a risky business as reporter Ed Drewitt discovers when he travels to the River Tyne to interview Barry Bendall as he checks on the progress of our Salmon fitted with tags by CEFAS (the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science). https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-aquatic-warbler/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-aquatic-warbler/ Aquatic Warblers are Europe's most threatened migratory songbird. Over the summer this sparrow-sized bird breeds in the wetland marshes of eastern central Europe - in Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine. Until recently it was not known exactly where the Aquatic Warblers migrated to for the other half of the year. But through expeditions and new technology, their wintering location has been revealed - the birds were found south of the Sahara, in Senegal. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-is-missing/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-is-missing/ We've just got some very worrying news. Logie has set off on the return leg of her migration back to western Africa but as soon as she was in the air we lost contact with her. The transmitter that is sending back her coordinates stopped working. What does this mean? Has Logie, heaven forbid, met her maker or is it simply a malfunctioning transmitter? We just don't know. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/red-knots-of-delaware-bay/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/red-knots-of-delaware-bay/ Red Knots make very specifically timed migrations from South America to the Arctic. However they don't have enough fuel to make the journey in one go - they need to coincide their migration with the Horseshoe Crab spawning season, when they feast on freshly laid Crab eggs. Stephen Lyle reports from Delaware Bay, USA. You can make the most of the panorama by clicking on the camera in the image and dragging the picture around. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-and-chicks/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-and-chicks/ At last, an update on Logie and her offspring! A few weeks after our last report, Roy Dennis rang into the WOTM office to tell us that Logie had laid eggs. The chicks are now a healthy size so our reporter, Moira Hickey, went to get an update from Roy and join him as he tagged the two young chicks. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/how-to-identify-a-toad/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/how-to-identify-a-toad/ Several people have posted comments saying that Toads are on the move again. As ever, there is still some confusion about what Toads look like and how they differ from Frogs. Jody Bourton went out to investigate for his new BBC Wales Nature blog. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/waiting-for-godwits-part-ii/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/waiting-for-godwits-part-ii/ We are still waiting for our Bar-tailed Godwits to make the trans-Pacific flight from Alaska to New Zealand. These birds are incredible athletes and like any good athlete, they must get their bodies in perfect condition, as Philippa found out when she spoke to Dr Phil Battley. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/humpback-whale-bubble-netting/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/humpback-whale-bubble-netting/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/salmon-spawning-in-alaska/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/salmon-spawning-in-alaska/ Our reporter, Grant Sonnex, has been in Alaska for the last three weeks following the dangerous and exhausting migration of Sockeye Salmon upstream from Bristol Bay to Lake Nerka. Having successfully avoided the fishermen's nets and the host of predators that line the river, the surviving Salmon are now preparing to reproduce. This is Grant's final report from the University of Washington's field station on Lake Nerka. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/humpback-whales-in-alaska/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/humpback-whales-in-alaska/ The Humpback Whales are now on their feeding grounds in the arctic waters around Alaska. Like the Gray Whale, Humpbacks spend the winter months in warm waters and migrate several thousand miles north to spend summer in the krill-rich waters of the Arctic. Our reporter, Joe Stevens went to investigate bubble netting - the process by which Humpbacks feed. Here is the first half of his audio diary - the second half will be available next week. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/waiting-for-godwits/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/waiting-for-godwits/ WOTM are back in Alaska, but this time we're checking up on the Alaskan Bar-tailed Godwits that departed from New Zealand at the end of March. Two males that have been tagged with satellite transmitters have been tracked down to the Yukon Delta in Alaska where following this year's breeding season, we are now waiting for them to feed up and begin their southward migration back to New Zealand. In the first of two reports, Phil Battley tells Phillippa where the birds have been and what they’ve been up to, since they arrived in Alaska. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/dragonflies-and-damselflies/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/dragonflies-and-damselflies/ What could be more typical of high summer than a dragonfly cruising endlessly over a pond on a hot day like a miniature helicopter, catching flying insects on the wing. Now is the time to see dragonflies and their smaller and more delicate relatives, the damselflies. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/why-do-basking-sharks-come-to-the-uk/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/why-do-basking-sharks-come-to-the-uk/ Basking Sharks are the world's second largest fish. They are as long as a bus, weigh as much as two elephants, have a metre-wide mouth and they're coming to the UK. Lionel Kelleway met up with Jackie Hall of the Manx Basking Shark Watch to find out why. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/alaskan-salmon-3-predated-by-bears/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/alaskan-salmon-3-predated-by-bears/ Mike Davis, who I was set-netting with in my last report, believes that night saw the best fishing they have had and there is no doubt that the peak of the Sockeye Salmon migration has now passed through the bay and is heading upstream. But once they are past the fishing nets the Salmon still have to contend with the wild predators of this area - Bald Eagles, Ospreys, Foxes, Wolves and Brown Bears. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/alaskan-salmon-2-net-setting/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/alaskan-salmon-2-net-setting/ In Grant Sonnex's last report, we discovered that there remains only one last great Salmon run. Every year, 40 million Sockeye Salmon converge on Bristol Bay, Alaska in an attempt to reach the freshwater rivers and tributaries where they spawn. But of course they have to dodge the fishermen's nets first. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whales-in-alaska-part-2/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whales-in-alaska-part-2/ This is the second of a two part report on the 2008 northward migration of Gray Whales. The entire population have now reached their summer feeding grounds in the arctic waters around Alaska but there's growing evidence that climate change is affecting the migration of the Gray Whale in several ways. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/alaskan-salmon-1-the-last-great-salmon-run/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/alaskan-salmon-1-the-last-great-salmon-run/ Most of the great salmon runs up the west coast of North America have disappeared over the years as river valleys have been deforested, dammed, and degraded. Just one remains - the last great Pacific salmon migration. And that is up in Dillingham, Alaska. Our reporter, Grant Sonnex, is there to follow 40 million salmon from the sea to the spawning grounds. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/great-circle-navigation/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/great-circle-navigation/ Imagine there’s a globe in front of you; it’s the earth, and because the earth is a globe and not flat, then as any long-haul airline pilot knows the shortest distance between two points is not along a constant compass bearing but rather along what is known in spherical geometry as a "great circle". https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whales-in-alaska/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whales-in-alaska/ This is the first of a two part report on this year's northward migration of the NE Pacific population of Gray Whales. Back in February the first Gray Whale was spotted moving past the coast of California and now the entire population have converged on their summer feeding grounds in the arctic waters around Alaska. It's one of the longest migrations of any mammal but we have evidence that climate change is having an adverse effect. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tagging-jellyfish/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tagging-jellyfish/ It's not exactly nailing jelly to the ceiling, but attaching a tracking device to a jellyfish is not going to be easy. However, this summer a team of scientists from Cork, Swansea and Queen’s University Belfast have set themselves this challenge to find out why gatherings, or smacks, of jellyfish seem to come together in certain bays. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/british-rail-back-on-track/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/british-rail-back-on-track/ One of Britain's rarest rail - the Corncrake - is making a comeback. The Corncrake, a dove-sized rail, was once widespread throughout the UK and Europe but over the last century populations have declined to such an extent that they could only be found on the Western Isles of Scotland. Until now that is. Brett went to the Cambridgeshire Fens where Rhys Green has been working at getting the numbers of these birds in England back on track. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/courting-the-painted-lady/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/courting-the-painted-lady/ At this point in the migration calendar, many of the species that we have been following are now on our doorsteps; in the gardens and the parks around us. One such beauty is the Painted Lady Butterfly. Richard Fox of Butterfly Conservation introduced WOTM to Coleston Fishacre, where we hoped to witness the incredibly rare sight of mating Painted Ladies. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/encouraging-wildlife-into-your-garden/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/encouraging-wildlife-into-your-garden/ Migrants are famous for being fickle and can turn up anywhere, but if you want to lure them into your garden, then the key is to concentrate on your garden’s structure. Even in a small space, a good, diverse range of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, as well as a supply of water (eg. a garden pond, or bird bath) will provide both visiting animals, and the residents with food and shelter, as Brett discovered when he joined wildlife gardener and environmentalist Chris Baines at his home in Wolverhampton. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/okavango-delta-force/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/okavango-delta-force/ The Okavango Delta is a tranquil and isolated oasis in Botswana’s harsh and arid Kalahari desert. Many of your comments in the community pages have asked the very pertinent question - why do animals migrate? Well, the Okavango Delta provides a perfect answer. As we hear from BBC cameraman Peter Bassett, within minutes of the water appearing, there was animal life and by the end of filming he had seen thousands of buffalo and even giraffes wading across the delta. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-ten/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-ten/ Mac has clearly completed his musth phase for this year. Two months ago Mac came into musth and began his southward migration in search of a mate and we can now safely assume that it's a case of mission accomplished. Michelle and Steve Henley, who have been following Mac for WOTM, reported that for the last few weeks he had been "associating" with several herds of elephant cows. Although the Henleys didn't catch Mac in flagrante, his return north indicates that he has succesfully mated with at least one and possibly more females from the Rivers and the Constellations herds. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/butterfly-navigation/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/butterfly-navigation/ It's still sometimes difficult to get to grips with the idea that the delicate Butterflies that we see in our gardens and parks every summer have migrated vast distances, often from as far as Morocco. How on earth do they manage it? Brett spoke to Jason Chapman, a scientist that has been studying this year’s migrating Painted Lady Butterflies. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/two-swallow-fledglings/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/two-swallow-fledglings/ More than a month has past since my first update from our Swallow nest on the Mendips; at that time the pair had repaired last year's nest and laid 4 eggs. Now, in June, we have two healthy youngsters which are preparing to fledge any day. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/bats-at-the-cemetery-gates/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/bats-at-the-cemetery-gates/ Over the next few months, with the help of John Altringham and his team from the University of Leeds, we are going to follow the journeys of the Daubenton’s Bats that live their lives along the river Wharfe in Yorkshire's Wharfedale. Philippa spoke to John who's in a graveyard at Ilkley in the Yorkshire Dales, home to a roost of female Bats. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/macs-musth-is-over/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/macs-musth-is-over/ Mac's annual migration has now ended. After dropping out of musth, Mac left the herds in the southern Timbavati and moved north through the Kruger National Park back to the area where we first caught up with him over two months ago. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tyne-salmon-trail/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tyne-salmon-trail/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/invasion-of-the-crossbills/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/invasion-of-the-crossbills/ Many birds migrate annually - it's "in their genes" to fly thousands of miles from one hemisphere of the earth to another. However, some birds such as the Crossbill have evolved to undertake similar feats of stamina in response to their environment. This year flocks have been turning up where they're not usually seen. We even had 6 birds fly over the WOTM office here in Bristol so Brett got in contact with Pim Edelaar, an evolutionary biologist from Uppsala University in Sweden, to determine the cause of this unexpected invasion of Crossbills. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gardenwatch/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gardenwatch/ How international is your garden? Cross-reference your sightings with the pictures below in order to find out how diverse the wildlife in your garden is. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/swift-in-the-tower/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/swift-in-the-tower/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/missing-on-the-ice-top-goose/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/missing-on-the-ice-top-goose/ Professor Colin Pennycuick has some rather bad news for our Top Goose aficionados - Geysir has not made it over the Greenland ice cap. For the last few weeks we have hyped up this extraordinary flight over the mile and a half high ice cap that covers Greenland; it really is a massive feat of strength and stamina. We didn't expect all our Top Geese to survive but it's still saddening to encounter the realities of this life-or-death event. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-four/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-four/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-the-scribbler/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-the-scribbler/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/swifts-the-devil-birds/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/swifts-the-devil-birds/ As dusk approaches, look up into the sky above the roof tops at this time of year, and there’s a good chance you’ll see and hear parties of Swifts diving and swooping at high speed, calling to one another with high pitched, screaming cries. They have earned the name ‘Devil Birds’ because of their wonderful piercing calls. The spire of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a prime location for nesting Swifts and you can hear Brett joining Roy Overall as they investigate some of the hundreds of nesting boxes that are home to Swifts incubating their eggs. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/basking-sharks/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/basking-sharks/ No, it's not Jaws - it's a Basking Shark. As the second largest fish in the world and with a mouth the size of a large fishing net, these sea-giants are pretty intimidating. But fear not - they feed on plankton not humans. Their striking dorsal fins can be spotted as soon as the waters around the UK begin to warm but where do they come from? This mystery has started to unravel following research published in the last week. Brett spoke to Dr Mauvis Gore from the University Marine Biology Station, Millport, Scotland to find out more. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-eight/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-eight/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/top-goose-skywalker-in-greenland/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/top-goose-skywalker-in-greenland/ At last, we can bring you news that the migration of the Brent Goose is well and truly under way... Skywalker has left Iceland and is currently on the west coast of Greenland having struggled to overcome the mighty ice cap that covers Greenland. Nendrum has still not left Iceland. Geysir is unaccounted for. So, why are the Brents leaving at different times? To determine what effect these different departure dates have on breeding success, we spoke to Kendrew Colhoun from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), the man responsible for tagging and tracking the geese. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/monarch-caterpillars/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/monarch-caterpillars/ Back in February, we heard from the Mexican mountains about the tens of millions of Monarch Butterflies which winter in the fir woods there. Then as spring warmed up the forests, the butterflies streamed north, through the United States laying eggs as they went. The Monarchs have now been spotted as far north as Canada but WOTM has learnt that their natural habitats are being threatened. Brett spoke to Karen Oberhauser from the Univesity of Minnesota in a bid to find out more. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/your-questions-answered-at-hay/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/your-questions-answered-at-hay/ When asked the question “what’s it like making wildlife programmes for radio..?” answers roll off the tongue of people like myself: “give our audiences close encounters with wildlife… tell personal stories about the natural world… the truth of what is happening to the wildlife of the world”. For all of you who went to the Hay Festival at the front end of the event in May you felt the natural world in full force. Squalls and low temperatures all added to a powerful elemental mix that would have put off the staunchest of supporters. But not our Hay audience! You all looked every bit of the wildlife programme maker – togged to the eye brows in winter gear and prepared to stick it out. Our broadcast tent was full and we were delighted to see you. Thank you for being with us. Here is a short essay inspired by your questions at Hay. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tracking-daubentons-bats/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tracking-daubentons-bats/ "These are animals that live life on a grand scale" says John Altringham, our real-life Batman. Daubenton's Bats are incredibly fragile beings, lighter than a shrew, but capable of comparatively great migrations nontheless. With the help of John and his team from the University of Leeds we are going to be exploring the movements of this creature, using new technology because this year John is putting little microchips - chip and pin technology - into the bats. We joined John and his team as they were setting up the nets that we hoped would allow us to catch and tag a few individuals. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/two-godwits-reach-alaska/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/two-godwits-reach-alaska/ Alaskan Bar-tailed Godwits are the long-distance athletes of our migration series. Last year, one female Godwit completed a non-stop flight of 7,200 miles (11,000km) in 9 days, from Alaska right over the Pacific Ocean to New Zeland. Absolutely phenomenal! This year, the Shorebird Research Project are determining whether male Godwits perform similarly heroic feats of endurance and news has come in that 2 of their tagged males that left New Zealand in March have now reached Alaska. Lee Tibbitts from the Shorebird Research Project sent us this audio report. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-seven/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-seven/ In this week's programme, we heard from Michelle Henley that Mac is slowly losing body condition as he shuttles between the various herds of elephant cows that are in oestrus. Steve then sent this latest update, confirming that Mac has been spotted associating with the Rivers herd. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/sea-lamprey-tackle-the-wye/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/sea-lamprey-tackle-the-wye/ Alien Face huggers arrive on the River Wye! Well not quite, but the mysterious Sea Lamprey have finally arrived after making the 90 or so mile journey upriver from the sea. Jody Bourton from the Wye and Usk Foundation has sent WOTM this report from Boughrood Bridge on the River Wye. The Wye and Usk Foundation are a charity concerned with restoring the habitat, water quality and fisheries of the rivers Wye and Usk. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-the-scribbler-hay-festival/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-the-scribbler-hay-festival/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-spectacled-eider/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-spectacled-eider/ Not all migrations are long distance ones. Up in Alaska there is a diving duck called the Spectacled Eider – they migrate from areas of coastal tundra where they nest and breed to important feeding areas which are in the shallow areas of the Bering Sea. The ducks will dive in these freezing temperatures some 60-70 metres beneath the ice to feed off the bottom-dwelling prey to be found in the sediment of the sea bed – worms, clams, etc. These ducks were only discovered to be overwintering in these vast flocks out in the ice in the 1970s and in March, Jeff Wilson from the BBC Natural History TV team joined scientist Jim Lovvorn on a US coastguard ice breaker in the Bering Sea. As you can hear in the audio report, introduced by Philippa Forrester, Jim was able to witness behaviour never previously seen in Spectacled Eiders using Jeff's special cameras. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-six/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-six/ Yesterday I managed to treat myself to a day with Mac as he was close to Tanda Tula Safari Camp where we are based. At first he followed a breeding herd of elephant cows and later, we caught some great audio of Mac cooling off with a mud bath, which you can hear below. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips-part-ii/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips-part-ii/ Atlantic Salmon return from the sea to the source of the river of their birth and move right up it in order to breed or spawn. Earlier in the year, we caught and tagged a female so that we could track its journey all the way along the River Tyne. So, last week Barry Bendall was on the banks of the River Tyne as close to Wylam as he could get without getting wet and he sent us this report from his mobile. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/kazakhstan-and-the-sociable-lapwing/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/kazakhstan-and-the-sociable-lapwing/ Can you imagine a part of the world where the winter is so severe that all birds have to leave? The steppes of Central Asia are such an area and the return of the birds in the spring is one of the world’s greatest migrations. Reporter Fiona Roberts joined RSPB researcher Paul Roberts and his local colleague Maxim Koshkin in Kazakhstan to witness this migration and to catch up with the rarest of these migrants – the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/top-goose-in-greenland/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/top-goose-in-greenland/ Two Greenland White-fronted Geese named Lightning and GFG touched down in Greenland at the beginning of the month: a heroic migration that saw them climb a mile and a half into the air to fly over the Greenland ice cap. The third, Miles, was nowhere to be seen and we can assume that his transmitter has stopped, err, transmitting. It's hard to stress enough just how testing this migration is. It's an extraordinary drain on resources that leaves the geese with very little margin for error. Survival depends on timing - if they reach Greenland too early, the tundra may not have thawed yet. This means no dinner. Also, as we learnt from Eggert Gudmundsson, a Greenlander (is that the correct name for a resident of Greenland?), our geese are in danger of being hunted by the local human population. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-three/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-three/ The last week has seen some drama onboard HMS Chatham. On the Wednesday morning the Flight Commander found four decapitated Warblers in the hanger. Birds are often locked in for the night but clearly something had been locked in with them! I had a good look around but there were only surviving wagtails and warblers to be found. The next morning there were two carcasses, both had been partially eaten. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-five/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-five/ Mac's movements over the past week appear to reflect a change in strategy. He is no longer criss-crossing his entire musth range, but is now focusing his attention on a particular area in the southern half of his range. We assume that the first few weeks back in his musth range were spent reacquainting himself with the area and the other elephants after a two year absence. Now he is specifically looking for potential mates. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/icelandic-goose-chase-part-2/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/icelandic-goose-chase-part-2/ As part of Top goose we have attached satellite transmitters to three Greenland White-fronted Geese. Now we are in Iceland we want to do the same with a few Brent Geese so that we can track their movements over the Greenland ice cap en route to Arctic Canada. Having said that, in Tuesday's programme you'll hear that catching a goose can be, well, a bit of a wild goose chase. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/final-gray-whales-count/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/final-gray-whales-count/ For the last 105 days, Michael H Smith has been counting northward migrating Gray Whales off the coast of California. Last year was a spectacularly poor year; so how did their numbers compare this year and what is the cause of these reduced numbers? Michael's project is only a small part of the Gray Whale Census run by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) but with the results from this, and other counts, we will establish whether climate change is affecting the migration of Gray Whales, and their ability to breed. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/icelandic-goose-chase/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/icelandic-goose-chase/ WOtM will be broadcasting next Tuesday's programme from Iceland as part of Top Goose. Team WOtM have been tracking 3 species of geese on their annual migration from the UK to the Arctic and in Iceland we are hoping to check up on the Greenland white-fronted Geese and the Brent Geese. Having attached satellite transmitters to a number of geese, our migration guru, Professor Colin Pennycuick, will then be able to work out whether they have enough fuel to complete one of the most challenging migrations of the animal kingdom: to overcome the mile and a half high Greeland ice cap that stands between them and their summer residences in Arctic Canada and Greenland. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-two/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-two/ During the last week a large sandstorm moved through the North Arabian Gulf turning the sky Martian orange and reducing visibility to a few tens of metres. Breathing was difficult and for a few days afterwards there were very few birds to be found. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/chris-sperrings-swallow-update/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/chris-sperrings-swallow-update/ I'm high on the Mendip Hills in south west England to catch up with a family of swallows that left for Africa last September. Amazingly, we've found four Swallows that have just completed their epic migration, having spent the winter possibly as far south as southern Africa. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/dawn-chorus/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/dawn-chorus/ For some of us the prospect of waking up at 4am to catch the dawn chorus is little more than a dream. If you are one of these folk, now you won't even have to leave the comfort of your bed because you can download our specially recorded dawn chorus. May 10th/11th sees the World Migratory Bird Day celebrations and you can get involved at the World Migratory Bird Day website. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-four/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-four/ We are now into week four of Mac's annual migration and Mac has still not found a suitable mate. To make sure Mac was OK, Philippa spoke to Michelle Henley to find out a little more about Mac's seemingly haphazard journey. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/pigeon-navigation/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/pigeon-navigation/ Jon Hagstrum, a geologist working with the US Geological Survey based in California, is not convinced by the current theories that birds use a combination of magnetic and olfactory cues to help them navigate. He has a fascinating but controversial theory, as Brett discovered when he spoke to Jon at the recent Royal Institute of Navigation conference. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/loggerhead-turtle-navigation/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/loggerhead-turtle-navigation/ How do turtles navigate thousands of miles through the world's oceans? According to recent research, Loggerhead Turtles appear to have an in-built Sat Nav Global Positioning System. Brett Westwood went to the Royal Institute of Navigation conference to hear more from Dr Kenneth Lohmann. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-three/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-three/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf/ Hello from HMS Campbeltown - a Royal Navy frigate ten miles off the coast of Iraq, in the North Arabian Gulf. It is already 30 degrees Centigrade and we find ourselves in the midst of the spring bird migration. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/introducing-the-humming-bird-hawk-moth/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/introducing-the-humming-bird-hawk-moth/ Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce to you a rather peculiar new member to our family of WOTM creatures - the Humming-bird Hawk-moth. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-twelve/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-twelve/ It’s official; today is the first day of summer. Not only has this been a bank holiday in Iceland but there were also images of displaying Golden Plover and early Arctic Terns on the evening news headlines. There is something reassuring about a country in which television news producers are still in touch with the seasons and where the arrival of migrants from the other end of the world is noteworthy. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-eleven/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-eleven/ The main migrants of note today were José Alves from Portugal and Becca Hayhow from Ireland, here to catch up with their birds. As they arrived, so did a change in the weather. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-ten/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-ten/ Having checked out the rest of the flock for coloured rings, we settled down to watch for incoming birds and to await our live interview for World on the Move. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-nine/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-nine/ There may well be a change in the weather tomorrow and I am hoping that we will have flocks of newly-arrived Black-tailed Godwits sitting in front of us when we talk to Brett Westwood, in the World on the Move studio, tomorrow morning. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-is-home/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-is-home/ After 43 days, 9 countries and over 3619 miles covered, Logie's Run has finally come to an end. Unfortunately for Logie she didn't get the fairytale ending that she was expecting. Moira Hickey and Roy Dennis went up to the nest to find that there was no lover's tryst - Logie has competition from a rival Osprey! They recorded this piece of audio and you can trace her extraordinary migration from Guinea-Bissau to Scotland on the maps that follow the pictures of Logie. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-eight/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-eight/ We have been up in the northwest, at Stykkishólmur, for the day today, staying with Dr Tómas Gunnarsson, the Icelandic lead of the Black-tailed Godwit project, and his family. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-seven/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-seven/ Graham Appleton and Jennifer Gill are in Iceland, waiting for Black-tailed Godwits that have spent the winter in the UK and other European countries to arrive home. Hundreds of these birds are wearing coloured leg-rings, enabling Graham and Jenny to recognise individuals. Who will get back first this year? https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/hawaiian-humpbacks/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/hawaiian-humpbacks/ BBC Natural History Unit producer Hugh Pearson has recently returned from a filming trip to Hawaii – capturing wonderful images of family groups of North Pacific Humpback Whales. To find out more about their annual migration he spoke to Mark Ferrari from the Centre for Whale Studies. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-two/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-two/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-six/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-six/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-back-in-scotland/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-back-in-scotland/ Over the weekend we heard that Logie had flown into Scotland but there is some disturbing news - Logie may be ousted from her nest by a rival female. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-five/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-five/ It definitely feels like spring now and the Black-tailed Godwits that we came here for are out in force. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-four/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-four/ After four days in Iceland, the colour-ringed Godwits have finally arrived! https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-six/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-six/ It's approaching the end of our week with Mac but not to worry, the Henleys will be sending back weekly reports on Mac so we'll know if he finds a perfect mate. Michelle Henley has sent back some stunning audio of the Henleys up close and personal with Mac, and Steve has emailed his latest journal entry. Enjoy! Remember, you can now post this audio onto your blog and share it on your friends' myspace or facebook page. Just click on the "share this audio" link. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-three/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-three/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-two/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland-day-two/ Dr Jennifer Gill of the University of East Anglia is part of an international research team exploring how environmental change may influence migratory birds, such as the Black-tailed Godwit. She is in Iceland with Graham Appleton (who is taking leave from his job with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to assist with this project) and they will keeping World On the Move updated with their daily postcards. This is their second postcard. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-five/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-five/ Mac has made great progress over the last week. His current position is now in the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, some 80 km to the south of his starting point, the Kruger National Park. There are more herds of Elephant cows in this area and Mac will now be on the look out for a suitable mate. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-four/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-four/ Mac is making his way through the Private Nature Reserves of southern Africa in search of a mate but when it comes to mating, there will always be competition. Philippa speaks to Steve Henley of Save The Elephants who tells us that Mac almost got into a scrape with a rival bull. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-iceland/ Dr Jennifer Gill of the University of East Anglia is part of an international research team exploring how environmental change may influence migratory birds, such as the Black-tailed Godwit. She is in Iceland with Graham Appleton (who is taking leave from his job with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to assist with this project) and they will keeping World On the Move updated with their daily postcards. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-three/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-three/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-the-scribbler-swallows/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-the-scribbler-swallows/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-two/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-two/ Mac has reached the APNR (Association of Private Nature Reserves), which is a collection of private reserves in southern Africa - Steve and Michelle Henley have been following him over the weekend and here is their latest report. You can hear more in Tuesday's programme. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-back-in-the-uk/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-back-in-the-uk/ Rumours of Logie's demise have been grossly exaggerated - she is now flying past London. We have the last three extracts of Roy's diary below the maps of Logie's progress. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-one/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-one/ As soon as we heard Mac, an old African Elephant bull was displaying symptoms of "musth" (the hormonal change that makes male elephants hunt down a female mate) we jumped into into action. Mac never made it into musth last year because of an injury he picked up so it was imperative that we didn't lose him before he charged off after a mate. After a couple of frantic days at the Team WOtM office couriering equipment out to Steve and Michelle Henley, Steve sent us back this first report. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-4/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-4/ Back in March we joined a team of Leatherback Turtle experts as they roamed the seas around Georgia, USA looking for an individual to catch and tag so we can find out more on their migration. Ultimately, the Leatherbacks were too good at out-manouevering any attempt to net them. So what now for Kara Dodge and her colleagues from the Large Pelagics Research Centre? https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/sand-martins-over-portbury/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/sand-martins-over-portbury/ On last week's programme, a few of us went down to Brean Down with Chris Sperring to get a good look at the Swallows coming up the Severn estuary. Now Chris sends us this report on the Sand Martins that can also be seen flooding into the country. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs-part-iv/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs-part-iv/ Monarch Butterflies are an incredible species in that, despite their diminutive stature, they make one of nature's longest migrations: from the densely wooded heartland of Mexico to the mild climes of Canada. Back in March, Team WOtM flew out to Mexico to cover the migration of the Monarch Butterflies where we met up with Professor Chip Taylor of Monarch Watch. With the memory of these stunning butterflies fresh in our minds, we decided it was time to get back in touch with Prof. Taylor and get an update on their progress. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/allez-logie/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/allez-logie/ Latest reports from Roy Dennis state Logie has decided to make a break into France and is passing over the Bordeaux region. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/submit-your-swallow-sighting/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/submit-your-swallow-sighting/ For many people, the first glimpse of a swallow heralds the onset of summer. These birds are the epitome of summer and some of them have already filtered into Britain. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move/ Breaking news! We have been practically praying for this news and thankfully Michelle Henley contacted us to send word that Mac the African Elephant bull looks like he is entering "musth" the testosterone-fuelled frenzy that triggers his 200km migration to find a mate. This is just the news we have been waiting for because it means we will be able to follow Mac on his astonishing journey through southern Africa! https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-cuckoo-chorus/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-cuckoo-chorus/ Listen to the audio clip of a solitary cuckoo and if it's anything like what you are hearing around you then we want to know where it's coming from. All you have to do is place a peg in the map below and tell us where you are and what you can hear. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/chris-sperring-migrant-update/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/chris-sperring-migrant-update/ High on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, a battle is raging between Winter and Summer. No two days are alike; one day we are in the depths of winter, the next is a glorious spring day. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whale-calves-spotted/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whale-calves-spotted/ News has come in from our Gray Whale spotters that mother whales and their calves are now starting to push past California as they migrate northwards. This is fantastic news. All along the Pacific Coast of the United States, scientists and volunteers are counting Gray Whales as they migrate from the nursing lagoons in Baja California, Mexico to the feeding grounds in the Arctic waters of the Bering and Chukchi seas. In previous years they would have spotted mother whales and calves much earlier in the year so we spoke to some of the whale spotters to find out possible reasons for this delay. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/submit-your-osprey-sighting/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/submit-your-osprey-sighting/ Ospreys have been spotted in the British Isles by some of you and now is your chance to show us where they are. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/springs-first-wheatear/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/springs-first-wheatear/ The Northern Wheatear is often the first summer migrant to reach the United Kingdom, and these birds with their brilliant white rumps can be seen darting across farmland, clifftops or even sports pitches from early March. But it’s not just a harbinger of spring. This summer visitor has one of the most gruelling and extraordinary migrations of any European bird. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips/ Salmon are extraordinary fish - after spawning in freshwater they migrate out to sea and return to that very same river sometimes up to six years later to breed. How do they know which river to return to? Brett spoke to Barry Bendall from CEFAS who hopes to tag salmon so that we can track their movements up the River Tyne later this year. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whales-leave-california/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whales-leave-california/ Gray whales are now streaming past the coast of California as they migrate north. In Tuesday's programme, we will hear from Michael H Smith who is counting whales in the waters around Santa Barbara, California. In this audio clip, Philippa speaks to Steven Swartz, a scientist who has been studying the effects of climate change on Gray Whales and their breeding success. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/in-the-water-with-gray-whales/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/in-the-water-with-gray-whales/ Gray Whales have an extraordinary migration. They swim between breeding lagoons in Mexico to feeding grounds in the Arctic. Their journey is one of the longest of all mammalian migrations - it's a 10,000-14,000 miles/12,000-20,000km round trip. Gavin Thurston is a wildlife cameraman who has a unique relationship with them; whilst filming Gray Whales off the coast of Mexico he came into contact with a male protecting his female mate. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-still-in-spain/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-still-in-spain/ Logie the Osprey is still in Spain, obviously held up by poor weather on the Basque coast. Philippa spoke to Roy Dennis to find out where she currently is and what problems this hold-up might cause. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tagging-humpbacks/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/tagging-humpbacks/ Earlier this year, Sarah Tavner went out into the Caribbean to join a group of scientists who were trying to attach satellite tags to Humpback Whales. She recorded the team succesfully securing a tag to one whale, after which our Philippa spoke to the team leader Philip Clapham, Director of Research at the Marine Mammal Lab in Seattle. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/wildebeest-on-the-serengeti/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/wildebeest-on-the-serengeti/ One of the most visually memorable images brought into our homes through natural history television is that of vast herds of Wildebeest marching purposefully across the plains in Africa. Peter Bassett is there on the Serengeti and having been told there are some 1.5 to 2 million Wildebeest in the area, he went to get a closer look. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-voice-of-cod-part-ii/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-voice-of-cod-part-ii/ We're all familiar with the idea of a dawn chorus in spring - when male birds sing to attract females. But what a chorus of fish? Well its not as daft as it sounds. It turns out the underwater world is far from a silent world, and even the mighty cod, makes sounds to attract a mate. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-3/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-3/ Jody Bourton and Grant Sonnex went out to sea with the Large Pelagic Research Team to catch and tag a Leatherback but as you'll see in the video, these Turtles are an elusive creature to net. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-2/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-2/ Unfortunately, we haven't found any Leatherbacks yet but after a few hours at sea, we did find Dolphins. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles/ We know Leatherback Turtles have been on earth for around 110 million years and we know that they can dive to depths of 1000m below the surface but where and why do they migrate? Our reporters, Jody Bourton and Grant Sonnex, have joined up with a team who will be attempting to tag a Leatherback so we can answer these questions. To find out how they are going to tag a Leatherback Turtle, Jody asked Andy Myers who is a member of the Large Pelagic Research Team. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/ocean-currents-and-migration/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/ocean-currents-and-migration/ Cold ocean currents carry food, when the cold currents come close to land a breeding opportunity opens for some seabirds - they can find food for their chicks. Stephen Lyle sends this report from Tobago where he's filming Red-billed Tropicbirds for the TV series 'Life'. He's taken a 360 degree panoramic picture and recorded some audio to guide you through the scene. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-leaves-guinea-bissau/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-leaves-guinea-bissau/ Logie has started her northward migration from West Africa back to her home roost in Scotland. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/philippa-goes-on-toad-patrol/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/philippa-goes-on-toad-patrol/ Each year thousands of Toads are killed on British roads while migrating to their ancestral breeding grounds. But, fortunately, help is at hand. Across the UK, reptile and amphibian groups have joined forces to set up and support Toad Patrols. Hear Phillipa's experience when she set out with one of them on a wet and warm Saturday night. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs-part-iii/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs-part-iii/ Once again, I'm writing from the Monarch Butterfly forests of Mexico. We have just finished doing an interview between Grant here in the forest and Brett back at base in the UK. All went well but we were convinced that the sheer numbers of butterflies in the air were interfering with the our mini satellite transmitter. Here's another video. This time Grant is engulfed by a blizzard of Monarch Butterflies. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whale-count/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whale-count/ The northward migration of the Gray Whale is one of the easiest to see and follow because they hug the coast of Mexico, the US, and Canada to northern Alaska. This journey of some 12,000 to 20,000 kilometres is believed to be one of the longest of any mammal. Michael's first report was filed in February to tell us that the first Gray Whales had started to move. WOtM phoned Michael to get an update. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs-part-ii/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs-part-ii/ You know that feeling when you were a child and the delight you felt when you saw a butterfly in the garden, well multiply that by a few hundred thousand and that was the sensory overload that Grant and I experienced when we had our first experience of the Monarch Butterfly colonies here in Mexico. Stunning. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-voice-of-cod/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-voice-of-cod/ In World on the Move, we’ll be hearing about all kinds of technology like the transmitter on Logie the Osprey, or the gadgets on the Bar-tailed Godwits which are being used to track animals on migration. But when it comes to Cod – an ingenious method is currently being investigated in Norway by the Marine Institute based at Bergen in Norway, which relies simply on listening to the cod as they migrate. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/submit-your-painted-lady-sighting/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/submit-your-painted-lady-sighting/ If you have seen any Painted Lady Butterflies we want you to show us where they are - just peg your location on Butterfly Conservation's online map. Then come back to our site and tell us more about your sighting. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/running-with-monarchs/ After listening to this clip of Professor Chip Taylor describing the overwhelming visual spectacle of the Monarch Butterfly migration from the Sierra Madre, it became apparent that World On the Move had to be there. This is our reporter, Grant Sonnex's, first blog entry from Angangueno, Mexico. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-the-osprey/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-the-osprey/ Last summer we caught up with Roy Dennis who was preparing to catch an Osprey and fit it with the latest GPS satellite transmitter so that, for the very first time, we could follow its migration in unprecedented detail. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/return-of-the-tagged-albatross/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/return-of-the-tagged-albatross/ The bird I tagged during the interview has finally returned! You can see its amazing journey on the map - a distance of some 300 to 400 miles. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/albatrosses-on-bird-island/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/albatrosses-on-bird-island/ I arrived on Bird Island in the South Atlantic just before New Years Day 2008, beginning a three and a half month stay here during which I will be GPS tracking foraging black-browed albatrosses. This is part of my PhD research into the habitat preferences of albatrosses, which I am carrying out at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of St Andrews. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/five-tagged-white-fronts/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/five-tagged-white-fronts/ Last night, 5 Greenland White-fronted Geese were tagged. Three of these birds will be competing in our Top Goose challenge which should start once the rest of the geese have been caught and tagged. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-evans-the-scribbler/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-evans-the-scribbler/ Paul Evans has been commissioned to scribble a number of pieces for World On the Move - this is his first, an anticipation of spring. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/sociable-lapwings-in-sudan/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/sociable-lapwings-in-sudan/ For the first time in 50 years, two rare Sociable Lapwings have been discovered in Sudan. The Sociable Lapwing is a bird that we will be following later in the series but, for now, this news is fantastic because it reflects the upturn in fortunes of this critically endangered species. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/missing-polar-bears/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/missing-polar-bears/ Tom Arnbom, Arctic Coordinator for WWF Sweden, travelled to the Russian Far East in pursuit of a Polar Bear and human conflict story. Ultimately, the story never emerged because the Polar Bears simply didn’t turn up. You can listen to a clip of Tom as he describes the scene on the mainland of Chukotka, north east Russia. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/warbler-safari-update/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/warbler-safari-update/ In our last report from The Gambia, we learnt that Brett was on the hunt of a willow warbler. In this report we hear from Brett and one of The Gambia's best birders, Solomon Jallow as they discuss this particular songbird. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/top-goose-question-time/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/top-goose-question-time/ Oscar Merne posed this very interesting question via the Comments board: "Crossing the Greenland icecap at over 2,700 m must push the Light-bellied Brent Geese into an area of quite low oxygen, and air temperatures of minus many degrees Celsius. I presume their feathers are capable of keeping them well insulated from the severe cold, but how do they cope with oxygen deprivation during a crossing that must take many hours?" We thought we'd get our migration guru and Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor Colin Pennycuick to answer this question. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/nine-tagged-godwits/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/nine-tagged-godwits/ Last week, our New Zealand correspondent David Steemson, was with Dr Phil Battley on the trail of Godwits. Dr Phil and his team were designing nets to catch a selection of Godwits that they could attach satellite trackers to. Philippa phoned him to find out how he got on. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whales-are-go/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/gray-whales-are-go/ One of the longest migrations of any mammal has begun. On 14th February, our reporter in California, Michael H Smith, told us that he had seen the first Gray Whales heading north on their 12,000 - 20,000 km migration. Then earlier today he filed this audio report with further details of their mammalian odyssey. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/warbler-safari-the-hunt-begins/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/warbler-safari-the-hunt-begins/ Over the weekend Brett and our producer Grant touched down in the Gambia on the trail of the exotic African songbirds that will be appearing over Britain in the not very distant future. This is the first report they submitted after hooking up with resident songbird expert Solomon Jallow and contains a small revelation - a singing nightingale. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/bird-observatory-competition/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/bird-observatory-competition/ As winter turns to spring in the northern hemisphere, so many of our British spring migrants including many of our songbirds which over-winter south of the Sahara migrate north. It's likely that the first people to spot their arrival will be based at one of our Bird Observatories on the south coast. So, we thought it would be rather fun to hold a World On the Move competition between three Observatories to see who in the coming weeks, spots our first spring migrant, who spots the bird that’s travelled the furthest, and who spots the most unusual of our migrants. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/catching-godwits-in-new-zealand/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/catching-godwits-in-new-zealand/ The Alaskan Bar-tailed Godwit has one of the most extraordinary migrations of all our animals. Last year, experts from Massey University tagged a female Godwit and discovered that she flew 7,200 miles/11,500 km non-stop from Alaska to New Zealand. Our reporter David Steemson is in New Zealand waiting for Godwits to migrate and he's talking to Dr Phil Battley. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/top-goose/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/top-goose/ Geese make extraordinary migrations from the UK to the top of the world. They must fly thousands of miles to reach their summer breeding grounds in the Arctic but along the way they must also overcome one of nature's great obstacles - the Greenland ice cap that towers a mile and a half (2,700m) above sea level. How do these birds know how much food they need to eat to fuel such incredible journeys? Top Goose is a project we have launched with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) to investigate this phenomenon and now you can hear Brett with Larry Griffin of the WWT as they prepare to catch and tag some of our Top Goose geese in Caerlaverock. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/toads-on-roads/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/toads-on-roads/ Toads are on the move! If you've seen some of these Toads, we want you to submit your sighting on the map below with as many details as you can think of. How many did you see? Where were they heading?Did you see any other wildlife? https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-ten/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-ten/ Mac has clearly completed his musth phase for this year. Two months ago Mac came into musth and began his southward migration in search of a mate and we can now safely assume that it's a case of mission accomplished. Michelle and Steve Henley, who have been following Mac for WOTM, reported that for the last few weeks he had been "associating" with several herds of elephant cows. Although the Henleys didn't catch Mac in flagrante, his return north indicates that he has succesfully mated with at least one and possibly more females from the Rivers and the Constellations herds. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/macs-musth-is-over/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/macs-musth-is-over/ Mac's annual migration has now ended. After dropping out of musth, Mac left the herds in the southern Timbavati and moved north through the Kruger National Park back to the area where we first caught up with him over two months ago. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-the-scribbler/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/paul-the-scribbler/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-eight/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-eight/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/your-questions-answered-at-hay/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/your-questions-answered-at-hay/ When asked the question “what’s it like making wildlife programmes for radio..?” answers roll off the tongue of people like myself: “give our audiences close encounters with wildlife… tell personal stories about the natural world… the truth of what is happening to the wildlife of the world”. For all of you who went to the Hay Festival at the front end of the event in May you felt the natural world in full force. Squalls and low temperatures all added to a powerful elemental mix that would have put off the staunchest of supporters. But not our Hay audience! You all looked every bit of the wildlife programme maker – togged to the eye brows in winter gear and prepared to stick it out. Our broadcast tent was full and we were delighted to see you. Thank you for being with us. Here is a short essay inspired by your questions at Hay. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-seven/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-seven/ In this week's programme, we heard from Michelle Henley that Mac is slowly losing body condition as he shuttles between the various herds of elephant cows that are in oestrus. Steve then sent this latest update, confirming that Mac has been spotted associating with the Rivers herd. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-six/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-six/ Yesterday I managed to treat myself to a day with Mac as he was close to Tanda Tula Safari Camp where we are based. At first he followed a breeding herd of elephant cows and later, we caught some great audio of Mac cooling off with a mud bath, which you can hear below. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-five/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-five/ Mac's movements over the past week appear to reflect a change in strategy. He is no longer criss-crossing his entire musth range, but is now focusing his attention on a particular area in the southern half of his range. We assume that the first few weeks back in his musth range were spent reacquainting himself with the area and the other elephants after a two year absence. Now he is specifically looking for potential mates. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-four/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-four/ We are now into week four of Mac's annual migration and Mac has still not found a suitable mate. To make sure Mac was OK, Philippa spoke to Michelle Henley to find out a little more about Mac's seemingly haphazard journey. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-three/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-three/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-two/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-week-two/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-six/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-six/ It's approaching the end of our week with Mac but not to worry, the Henleys will be sending back weekly reports on Mac so we'll know if he finds a perfect mate. Michelle Henley has sent back some stunning audio of the Henleys up close and personal with Mac, and Steve has emailed his latest journal entry. Enjoy! Remember, you can now post this audio onto your blog and share it on your friends' myspace or facebook page. Just click on the "share this audio" link. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-five/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-five/ Mac has made great progress over the last week. His current position is now in the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, some 80 km to the south of his starting point, the Kruger National Park. There are more herds of Elephant cows in this area and Mac will now be on the look out for a suitable mate. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-four/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-four/ Mac is making his way through the Private Nature Reserves of southern Africa in search of a mate but when it comes to mating, there will always be competition. Philippa speaks to Steve Henley of Save The Elephants who tells us that Mac almost got into a scrape with a rival bull. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-three/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-three/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-two/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-two/ Mac has reached the APNR (Association of Private Nature Reserves), which is a collection of private reserves in southern Africa - Steve and Michelle Henley have been following him over the weekend and here is their latest report. You can hear more in Tuesday's programme. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-one/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move-day-one/ As soon as we heard Mac, an old African Elephant bull was displaying symptoms of "musth" (the hormonal change that makes male elephants hunt down a female mate) we jumped into into action. Mac never made it into musth last year because of an injury he picked up so it was imperative that we didn't lose him before he charged off after a mate. After a couple of frantic days at the Team WOtM office couriering equipment out to Steve and Michelle Henley, Steve sent us back this first report. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/mac-on-the-move/ Breaking news! We have been practically praying for this news and thankfully Michelle Henley contacted us to send word that Mac the African Elephant bull looks like he is entering "musth" the testosterone-fuelled frenzy that triggers his 200km migration to find a mate. This is just the news we have been waiting for because it means we will be able to follow Mac on his astonishing journey through southern Africa! https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/bewicks-swans-arrive-from-russia/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/bewicks-swans-arrive-from-russia/ There's an old Russian saying: "The Swan brings snow on its bill". To find out whether this rings true, we sent Brett Westwood to WWT Welney on the Ouse Washes in Norfolk. After having a look round on Monday, Brett was able to confirm that the first Bewick's had indeed arrived. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/american-vagrants/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/american-vagrants/ Overshot, over-tired and over here. We’ve been treated to a bonanza of lost migrants over the past few weeks as several birds, which breed in the USA and winter in central America, have found themselves on this side of the Atlantic instead. To look around the 360 degree panorama of our reporter, Chris Sperring, on the cliff at Porthgwarra, click and drag your mouse over the image. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/narwhals-go-awol/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/narwhals-go-awol/ Narwhals are one of the planet's most elusive animals and they have proved it once again. Last month, Dr Kristin Laidre and her team tagged some Narwhals on the NW coast of Greenland. The aim was to follow these incredible creatures on their autumn migration but unfortunately the Narwhals have given them the slip. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/illegal-bird-hunting-on-malta/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/illegal-bird-hunting-on-malta/ The illegal shooting of birds of prey and other protected species on Malta has continued this autumn. Malta is located under an important migration path for a variety of birds and every autumn hunters gun down anything that flies, whether it is protected or not. Brett speaks to RSPB's Grahame Madge who witnessed some harrowing scenes when he joined Raptor Camp on Malta. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-bird-eating-bat/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/the-bird-eating-bat/ The Greater Noctule Bat represents one of the many dangers that face migrating songbirds. Many birds migrate at night to avoid predators but it seems that even in the dark they are not safe - many are eaten by the bird-eating Greater Noctule Bat. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/rip-moray-the-osprey/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/rip-moray-the-osprey/ Tragic news - Logie's eldest chick Moray has been found dead on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. After Logie herself went missing last week, it's not looking good for this year's Osprey migration. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips-part-iii/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/fish-and-chips-part-iii/ Migration is a risky business as reporter Ed Drewitt discovers when he travels to the River Tyne to interview Barry Bendall as he checks on the progress of our Salmon fitted with tags by CEFAS (the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science). https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-is-missing/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-is-missing/ We've just got some very worrying news. Logie has set off on the return leg of her migration back to western Africa but as soon as she was in the air we lost contact with her. The transmitter that is sending back her coordinates stopped working. What does this mean? Has Logie, heaven forbid, met her maker or is it simply a malfunctioning transmitter? We just don't know. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/missing-on-the-ice-top-goose/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/missing-on-the-ice-top-goose/ Professor Colin Pennycuick has some rather bad news for our Top Goose aficionados - Geysir has not made it over the Greenland ice cap. For the last few weeks we have hyped up this extraordinary flight over the mile and a half high ice cap that covers Greenland; it really is a massive feat of strength and stamina. We didn't expect all our Top Geese to survive but it's still saddening to encounter the realities of this life-or-death event. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-four/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-four/ https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-three/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/postcard-from-the-gulf-week-three/ The last week has seen some drama onboard HMS Chatham. On the Wednesday morning the Flight Commander found four decapitated Warblers in the hanger. Birds are often locked in for the night but clearly something had been locked in with them! I had a good look around but there were only surviving wagtails and warblers to be found. The next morning there were two carcasses, both had been partially eaten. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-4/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/leatherback-turtles-part-4/ Back in March we joined a team of Leatherback Turtle experts as they roamed the seas around Georgia, USA looking for an individual to catch and tag so we can find out more on their migration. Ultimately, the Leatherbacks were too good at out-manouevering any attempt to net them. So what now for Kara Dodge and her colleagues from the Large Pelagics Research Centre? https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-still-in-spain/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/logie-still-in-spain/ Logie the Osprey is still in Spain, obviously held up by poor weather on the Basque coast. Philippa spoke to Roy Dennis to find out where she currently is and what problems this hold-up might cause. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/philippa-goes-on-toad-patrol/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/philippa-goes-on-toad-patrol/ Each year thousands of Toads are killed on British roads while migrating to their ancestral breeding grounds. But, fortunately, help is at hand. Across the UK, reptile and amphibian groups have joined forces to set up and support Toad Patrols. Hear Phillipa's experience when she set out with one of them on a wet and warm Saturday night. https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/missing-polar-bears/ , NaN +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/missing-polar-bears/ Tom Arnbom, Arctic Coordinator for WWF Sweden, travelled to the Russian Far East in pursuit of a Polar Bear and human conflict story. Ultimately, the story never emerged because the Polar Bears simply didn’t turn up. You can listen to a clip of Tom as he describes the scene on the mainland of Chukotka, north east Russia.