On May 21, 1822, a hunter on the Bothmer Estate near Mecklenburg, Germany, shot and killed a white stork, only to find that the bird already had a 30-inch wooden spear lodged in its neck.
On May 21, 1822, a hunter on the Bothmer Estate near Mecklenburg, Germany, shot and killed a white stork.
“Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration”Scientific minds have evolved from theorizing that birds migrate to the moon to being able to track a flock like these Alaskan sandpipers with GPS.The ancient Greeks believed that birds hibernated in trees or underwater.
For centuries, humans have tried to solve the mystery of bird migration, often developing zany theories to help explain the phenomenon.By 1915, he had devised a way of catching the birds using a specially-designed canal with trap doors at either end. Monitoring the migration patterns of birds has never been easy, but technology has made it much simpler.Then he read it: “Your bird was shot here today by me, Albert Bailey . . . I took it for a hawk. Beg pardon.”One of the earlier methods employed was simply counting the silhouettes of birds migrating at night as they passed by a full moon.
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