Amherst was an adult female tagged Feb. 15, 2020, on Amherst Island, ON, in Lake Ontario by the Simcoe County Banding Group and Rebecca McCabe. She spent the remainder of the winter on the island and migrated north in April, and was last heard from May 5, 2020, along the eastern shore of James Bay. Nineteen months later, having nested twice in the Ungava Peninsula and overwintered in 2020-21 on the south edge of Hudson Bay, she came back south into cell range in western Québec in November 2021. In March 2022, she was found with an unrepairable wing injury on Simcoe Island, ON, and had to be euthanized. Amherst’s transmitter, a GSM/Argos hybrid, was paid for by generous donations to Project SNOWstorm.

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