In contrast to the other birds, that all flew almost non-stop and fairly directly to Lindisfarne,
Niels had a distinctly different behavior – where he gradually moved south with a lot of small jumps. His exact departure from Svalbard is unknown. On 14 September he was located northeast of Hitra and from there he gradually and slowly moved south along the west coast of Norway to Skoltafjorden north of the island Stolmen. No signals have been received from the PTT after 24 September.
