from BBC News. Days after arriving from Columbia to Appalachia TN, 5 GWWA's flew south to the Gulf and missed numerous tornadoes. They then returned to their nest sites. Also note an apparent 50% mortality of the 20 study birds in one year. This article is excerpted from the journal Current Biology.
Birds 'fled day before US tornadoes' Tracking data reveals that golden-winged warblers fled one day before the April 2014 US tornado outbreak, probably because they "heard it coming". Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30531060 ------------------- Gordon Andersson St Paul ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html