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

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Gordon Andersson
St Paul

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