09 Jul
2008
Birds migrate together at night in dispersed flocks
A new analysis indicates that birds don't fly alone when migrating at night. Some birds, at least, keep together on their migratory journeys, flying in tandem even when they are 200 meters or more apart. The study, from scientists at the University of Illinois and the Illinois Natural History Survey, appears this month in Integrative and Comparative Biology. It is the first to confirm with statistical data what a number of ornithologists and observers had long suspected: Birds fly together in loose flocks during their nocturnal migration........
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