Songbirds Fly Fast - Really Fast
Friday, February 13, 2009 - 10:22
in Biology & Nature
A York University research team has tracked the migration of songbirds, the most common type of bird in our skies, by outfitting them with tiny geolocator backpacks – a world first and interesting because they are too small for conventional satellite tracking. They now say we have underestimated the flight performance of songbirds dramatically. read more
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