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Click and follow geese
"All six of the Light-bellied Brent Geese fitted with satellite transmitters have now started their epic migration to their breeding grounds in Arctic Canada," the WWT said. "The results from tracking the migration will enable the WWT to identify important staging areas that may require special protection." The birds began their annual journey from Northern Ireland in April and touched down in Iceland where they stopped for a month and were fitted with the transmitters. The tagged geese will stay in Canada until September, when they will begin the journey home for the winter. Their progress can be followed on the
Internet at www.wwt.org.uk/brent. The site has a clickable map online
that can be enlarged to monitor where the birds now are. Another unique
and important option that this portal for bird lovers has is goose
adoption. A goose can be adopted online only and the site has a specific
request posted on its home page that reads: "Adoptions can only be
made online. We regret we cannot process phone or postal applications
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AFTER
the crown of being the first Oracle Certified Associate - Data Base
Administrator for Oracle 9i (OCA) in the region was wrested by a
Ludhiana boy, Chandigarh-lad Sandeep Mahajan has added another feather
to the region's cap.
BIRD
lovers with a bent for tracking the progress of migrating geese can
monitor a flock's every flap from Ireland to the Canadian Arctic by
logging onto the Internet from the comfort of their own homes. Six Brent
geese have been fitted with miniature transmitters which relay the
birds' positions on their 4,400 mile (7,000 km) migration path to a
Website set up by Britain's Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), the
charity told Reuters last week.