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MAY 20, 2014

New research adds a bit more to our understanding of bird migration. Hore & Henrik Mouritsen of Universität Oldenburg, Germany, have just published a paper in Nature called “ Anthropogenic electromagnetic noise disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory bird ”. Birds EMF migration Navigation research'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. That’s right – birds eating clay. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa. And that’s just in the lowlands!

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MARCH 6, 2011

For a researcher to get from Broome to Beijing it would take over 30 hours, as you would be required to fly south first! Broome Accommodation Mar 7th, 2011 at 7:50 pm A great post, thanks Clare, always great to see some of our local critters being documented. It was observed sleeping after the 6400kms trip. Thanks for visiting!

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