Leaving Us Behind

 Flying High And Leaving Us Behind

How do we know this? Thanks to Birdcast there’s a real time data analysis and study of bird migratory behavior that hopefully will help with conservation actions on the ground to help our feathered friends not die on the journey or be wiped from the face of the planet in extinction.

While weather surveillance radar plays an important part in gathering this information on the numbers, flight directions, speeds, and altitudes of birds — this is also about: Changing climate, habitat losses, pollution, wildfires, and dwindling food sources have all of our feathered friends on the run.

Join the research, outreach and education! This is an effort between Cornell University Cornell Lab of Ornithology), Clemson University Radar Ornithology Laboratory, the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia) and GeoMarine. Other partners are UMassAmherst, Colorado State University and numerous business partners and supporters.Last night, a grand migration of most treasured and needed bug picking migrants took flight,

Over a million Polly-wanna-crackers of all kinds, undetected mostly as we snored, soared the night.

Doing their semi-annual thing, shockingly little early, heading south-southwest, at speedy pace,

Thirty-one miles per hour, landing only for sustenance and rest, avian feathered friends chirp-a-thon…

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