To Birds, Storm Survival Is Only Natural
In this article I read about the aftermath of
Hurricane Sandy and how it affected the birds. The beaches, dunes, houses,
cars, and power may have a huge devastating outcome but researchers found that
birds have not. They were expecting to find a bunch of birds ashore with the
high winds in this hurricane but they barely found anything. They say they
found thousands of birds after the oil spill and that is normal, but they just
assumed this would be the same kind of situation with the natural disaster.
Looking further into research they never thought about how birds migrate every
year and go through different types of weather and realized some of the wings
are made for such winds. Some of the birds could even use the winds of this
hurricane to kick them into high speed and the storm actually helped them! The
researchers questioned, “How severe is too severe”? This is true, how much can
a bird actually handle? What if another storm hit right after? These are the
questions they wonder about now. They are looking forward to big storms for the
birds that stay in the middle of the ocean gets taken off course and they can
study them. They were not fully upset though; they found a bird called the
northern lapwing was supposed to belong near Brazil and ended up in
Massachusetts!
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