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Christopher and Tagata. Every spring migratory birds

flood back to where they breed and that migratory behavior is accompanied by

some human behavior. In English language Wikipedia, the page used for migratory

species like the Indigo Bunting or the Baltimore Orioles tend to peak in the

spring when those birds arrive in the where you can see in people's online behavior and how they're using Wikipedia, you can actually

see the fingerprints, if you want to say, of the arrival of the birds.

And not just birds.

Mittermeyer and his team surveyed nearly 2.5 billion Wikipedia page views for 32,000 species

across 245 languages.

And they also saw variable search rates for insects, ferns, horsetails, and flowering plants.

And the online searches for birds at least seem to correlate with real world data on migration times.

The researchers also found that Lithuanian Wikipedia pages, for example, had more

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