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Migrating Birds Prefer Lakefront Property

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Night-flying migratory birds over water turn back to lakeshores at daybreak—meaning crowded shores along the water. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.3

You may have spotted V-shaped squadrons of geese heading south this fall, but for many migrants,

0:44.3

like smaller songbirds, nighttime is the right time when it comes to migration.

0:49.3

The winds are gentler, and darkness helps him avoid airborne attacks.

0:53.3

Of course, darkness also makes

0:55.5

it harder for us to see them, which is where weather radar comes in.

0:59.5

These radars were designed to detect water drops in the air, precipitation in the air.

1:05.0

Jeff Bueller, an ornithologist and aeroecologist at the University of Delaware.

1:09.0

They also detect any other large objects that will reflect back that radio energy,

1:15.6

and it essentially sees insects and bats and birds as large drops of water.

1:21.6

Bueller and his team used three weather surveillance radars

1:24.1

to track migratory birds near the Great Lakes,

1:27.2

and they observed four spring migrations in a row. What they found was, as the track migratory birds near the Great Lakes, and they observed four spring

1:28.5

migrations in a row. What they found was as the night migration ended, and dawn broke, many birds

1:34.3

in flight over the lakes, they turned back, decided to quit for the day, which meant crowded

1:39.4

real estate on the south shore of the lakes, as the birds piled up there to wait out the day.

1:44.6

The study is in the journal of the Ock.

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