The unseen beauty of migratory birds! Now seen with GPS, solar power, cell links... Fascinating stuff!
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What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
More proof evolution is a myth. How would these birds live long enough to evolve these mysteries without God’s design?
There is a lot we still don’t know about nature.
I was driving on a freeway and happened to look up at a very large formation of birds. I think they were Starlings.
They created a pin pointed kaleidoscope in the sky for a few moments.
This was just before Sundown, so they had a daily ritual to perform before heading someplace for the night.
Gorgeous, mysterious and entertaining.
Think of all the levels of communication that must be going on so they don’t run into each other. So that they create an agreed upon design.
And they mess up the paint jobs on our beautiful windmills! J/k
Birds are cool creatures. Been watching ng shows on their amazing feats. Quite interesting.
Love watching flocks of birds “dancing in the wind” as they all turn I. Unison, flashes of silver and white as their feathers catch the sun. It s amazing how they all fly with such precision, all move at the same time. So cool
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Here in Southern Alabama, turkey vultures from up North overwinter and are seen daily soaring and wheeling against the sky, along with black vultures.
They’re easy to tell apart. Black vultures have an under-wing “hand” of lighter feathers and turkey vultures have a full wing edge of lighter feathers underneath. Turkey vultures are bigger with a more narrow, longer wingspan. Also they have red heads while black vulture heads are grey.
Now the black vultures don’t migrate as far North as the turkey vultures. I’ve just noticed a bunch of black vultures in the sky and only one turkey vulture.
The turkey vultures must be on the move North.
Spring is here, y’all!
“The article is a book review of”FLIGHTS OF PASSAGE” By Mike Unwin and David Tipling, and “A WORLD ON THE WING” By Scott Weidensaul
The unseen beauty of migratory birds! Now seen with GPS, solar power, cell links... Fascinating stuff! “
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Saw this video years ago, and it’s still pretty cool.
“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.
I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.
Here I’ve posted a short video made with the photo, the music and the score (composed by the birds).”
Because there are more ducks/geese on that arm.
I live in Southern California. Every year in the first or second week of October a group (boquet) of yellow rump warblers arrives and roosts in the same eucalyptus tree next to my bedroom window. They fly around the neighborhood in the day time and return to the same tree at sunset. In the first week of February they leave and go back north to Canada or where ever they nest and breed. This happens year after year. Now the cliff swallows have arrived from Argentina and will visit here until the first of July. There little wings must be tired.
This sounds like a fascinating book...
Sebastian Sholes, fisherman in diner: Heck, maybe we're all getting a little carried away with this. Admittedly a few birds did act strange, but that's no reason to...Melanie Daniels: I keep telling you, this isn't 'a few birds'! These are gulls, crows, swifts...!
Mrs. Bundy, elderly ornithologist: I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?
And no matter how many invasive starlings I dispatch they always come back.
Remember after the first season living on Oahu and seeing this one little sandpiper on our lawn each year. Someone told me they migrated, and though “no way that little guy crosses the ocean”
But every year, he or another would show up............