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you get your podcast. Hey, welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh, there's Chuck Jerry's here too,

sitting in for Dave. So let's go with short stuff. Go, go, go. This is something I'm surprised we

haven't covered succinctly. We may have talked about it before here and there, but the idea,

and I literally thought of this because I saw a flock of birds flying in that beautiful

V pattern. A flock of seagulls. Oh, I wish. Because you know, they run so far away.

Flying and I was like, where are those guys going? And what are they doing? And how do they know?

It seems a little late. Like, why are you doing it now? And how do you know how to get there?

It turns out we know the answers to some of these questions. And we're talking about bird migration.

And this comes from our old friends at Howstuffworks.com and Aliyah Hoyt, who did, I think, a really great

job writing a very succinct article on this cool topic. I thought so too. Go check it out and read it

there. But the notion about birds flying south for the winter, we should say right off the bat,

is like, that's just a very, sort of lazy way of putting it because there are more than

900 species of birds. And so you're just saying birds flying south. You can't just say that about

all birds because not all birds do fly south. No, they don't. But the ones that do fly south are

incredibly fascinating. Because like you said, all those questions you have, we have a lot of

answers to. And the urge to migrate has a name even. That's one of the things I love about this

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