french scientist, david grimley, and his team placed transmitters on the birds and wondered how long they would need to fly to their usual plankton meal which was now far away at the edge of the retreating ice. so when they gathered around to collect the first batch of data from their ...
migrating birds every year and attracts many travelers in search of adventure, photographs, bird-watching and chilling experience. Pangong has another unique and catchy feature; when it acts like a chameleon and changes its color from blue to green to even grey at times. The brackish water of ...
Researchers are now able to trace the flights of migrating birds by using light-level geolocators, which are tiny tracking devices that use day and night light patterns to determine location. The geolocators weigh less than half a gram, so they don't slow the birds down along their journey....
Back then, people assumed that migrating animals used the sun or stars to navigate long distances. This may indeed be true for some animals. But evidence that animals can also sense magnetic fields slowly began to mount in the mid-20thcentury, led by students in Friedrich Wilhelm Merkel’s l...
Berries are a great food source for birds when they're nice and ripe, but after they begin to ferment, they turn into little sacks of wine. Bird livers can't keep up with all the alcohol and it shows: They fly into windows, flop around on the ground, and they're not afraid of ...
Migrating monarchs The North American monarch butterfly, with a wingspan of 3.7 to 4.1 inches, migrates south from Canada and the U.S. in the summer to the California and the mountains of central Mexico in the winter: a distance spanning several thousand miles. The Monarch Butterfly Biospher...
Migrating south for the winter is a serious undertaking. Birds fly thousands of miles, risking their lives against predators and the elements just to find a viable food supply. It begs the question: why migrate at all? Why don't birds just stay in the tropics where it's warm year-round...
“A recent flock of migrating Canadian geese were recently warned about making too much noise at the Pebble Beach invitation Golf tournament. Sponsors are blaming an organization in Florida for training geese to honk after the hours of 11pm or while foursomes are attempting to remove them from ...
Migrating south for the winter is a serious undertaking. Birds fly thousands of miles, risking their lives against predators and the elements just to find a viable food supply. It begs the question: why migrate at all? Why don't birds just stay in the tropics where it's warm year-round...
Migrating south for the winter is a serious undertaking. Birds fly thousands of miles, risking their lives against predators and the elements just to find a viable food supply. It begs the question: why migrate at all? Why don't birds just stay in the tropics where it's warm year-round...