Tiny songbird discovered to migrate non-stop, 1,500 miles over the Atlantic
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
For more than 50 years, scientists had tantalizing clues suggesting that a tiny, boreal forest songbird known as the blackpoll warbler departs each fall from New England and eastern Canada to migrate nonstop in a direct line over the Atlantic Ocean toward South America, but proof was hard to come by.