Friday, December 19, 2014

Birds 'fled day before US tornadoes'

US scientists say tracking data showing five golden-winged warblers left their nesting site a day before a tornado outbreak suggests they "heard it coming". Geolocators showed the birds left the Appalachians and flew 700km (400 miles) south to the Gulf of Mexico. The next day the deadly April 2014 tornadoes swept across the central US.
 The Current Biology report suggests birds may sense and escape extreme events in this way.

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