When these champions of migration continue their journeys, sometimes to spend the non-breeding season as far south as Argentina or Chile, that local signal is lost. Occasionally, however, we are lucky enough to receive a signal from one of our tagged birds from a distant radio tower that is part of the same Motus network, allowing us to piece together another part of these birds' arduous journeys. For example, a Pectoral Sandpiper tagged in mid-September of 2022 was subsequently detected in Paraguay during its southward migratory journey, and then again in Nova Scotia, Canada, on its return journey north this past spring. On November 18, 2023, we radio-tagged four Dunlin (two of which are pictured below), one of whom spent the rest of the day feeding at our Delta field site, then flew overnight to the Texas coast, where it remained until December 17. Perhaps most exciting was the Lesser Yellowlegs that we tagged on October 13, 2023 (pictured at right), which spent five more days using our habitat, then flew directly to Panama, covering a distance of more than 1700 miles in just 53 hours.