A short course on the weather, and how birds need to be meteorolgists
Month: August 2023
How do migrating birds fly so far, so fast?
It is through their meteorological skills that blackpoll warblers can use 200mph (320kph) tailwinds to hurl their tiny little bodies 3.500 km (2,175 miles) over open ocean!
Pigeons Hear Where They Are!
It has been long known that homing pigeons and probably many other migratory birds can hear “infrasound” – sounds at frequencies below human ability to discriminate as pitch. This is how they figure out where they are!