This short video tags along with biologists, Sveinn Are Hanssen, Elise Skottene and Børge Moe, who capture Arctic skuas to fit them with GPS loggers and track their migration. Their study has revealed surprising new data indicating that skuas from Norway’s Svalbard archipelago do not all migrate to the same destination. Some spend the winter in the Mediterranean while others fly all the way to South America’s southeast coast. (For more on their work, see When bird scientists bear all)

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Arctic skua in Svalbard, Norway. © Randall Hyman