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Some birds are able to sleep while on the wing. Some species of swift spend months in the air without landing. http://maineoutdoorjournal.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=292359&ac=Outdoors
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Another link to a press report on this topic. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6455338/Robins-can-see-Earths-magnetic-field.html
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Most mornings during autumn, I visit a site close to home in Cambridgeshire called Croydon Hill. From this elevated vantage point, I stand and scan along the ridge and valley for birds visibly migrating (known to hard-core enthusiasts as ''vis-migging'') This morning's 'vis-mig'...
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Colin is quite right. The data obtained from ringing activities can help to inform our conservation decisions. For example: Ringing studies of cirl buntings in Devon showed that individuals rarely moved more than 2km between breeding territories and winter feeding areas. Subsequent conservation programmes...
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I live in Thornaby, Stockton on Tees and for the past month hundreds of the above birds have been landing and taking off over my house missing it by 2ft sometimes. These birds are using the new ponds constructed near The Holmes bend on the river Tees at the rear of my house. The birds land and take off...
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Thanks Squirrel for the link about the magnetic mapping research.
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After last week on Autumnwatch, did Chris Packham do a write up on the theory that involves the birds' ability to 'see' the magnetic field of the Earth? It involved metallic minerals in the beak area and I think chemicals in the brain that interact to produce a 'map' of the migration...
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The Whooping Crane migration led by ultra-light aircraft from Wisconsin to Florida should be underway this month sometime. For those unfamilar with or who would like to again see the wonderful story behind this huge undertaking, I'm posting a link to a YouTube video and to the International Crane...
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I wrongly chose wildlife questions although had a nice e-mail from someone. I am from the Isle of Man and each september stay near the Kyle of Lochalsh, prefer the area as easy connections for return to IOM. The past two years we have chosen about the 11th-20th september we seem to have missed the wonderful...
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Hi I live in the Isle of Man, every september we stay just North of the Kyle of Lochalsh, near Plockton and the Skye Bridge. The past few years we have been staying about the 11th-20th September one of the reasons is to by lucky enough to hear and see the migratory geese fly over, two years ago we went...