#migration

[erysium]

happy autumn equinox!! 🌓 🍂

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migration Doug Aitken

[laurens-german]

MIGRATION 2023, dir. Benjamin Renner, Guylo Homsy

[herpsandbirds]

A New Study Reveals Migration Isn’t a Solo Affair—It’s the Social Event of the Season

Migrants face myriad challenges. That's why certain songbird species choose to travel (and possibly even work) together, according to research drawing on a trove of bird banding records. In a pioneering study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers discovered that songbirds socialize across species lines, forming “migrating communities” as they travel. While ornithologists previously believed migrant species like the American Redstart and Magnolia Warbler just happened to end up flying near one another, we now know that this closeness is no coincidence:  It’s a sign that different bird species can form ecologically meaningful relationships and may even help each other out along their migratory journeys...

Read more: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/new-study-reveals-migration-isnt-solo-affair-its-social-event-season

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Ovenbird Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6

[probablyasocialecologist]

The submersible’s disappearance has arguably been the biggest news story of the last 24 hours. That’s understandable in some ways. For one thing, it’s a mystery: No one knows where it is or what state its passengers are in. There is, moreover, a race against time, as the sub has enough oxygen to make it until early Thursday, according to the Coast Guard—if, that is, the passengers are even still alive. There is both the possibility of an improbably happy ending or of unspeakable tragedy—another element of a compelling news story. And then there’s everything about the janky sub and its rich passengers, who have risked their lives on what is essentially a novelty expedition. Without knowing their fate, it has the feeling of something out of a Ruben Östlund film: These people are so wealthy they can take dangerous chances in a vessel the size of a Honda Odyssey, just for thrills.  Coverage of the missing submersible unintentionally illustrates something even more tragic, however. On June 14, what was likely the second-deadliest refugee and migrant shipwreck on record occurred when a boat carrying as many as 800 migrants sank off the Greek coast. Greek authorities had tracked the vessel and early signs suggest the country’s coast guard was slow to act despite numerous warning signs. This is a huge news story, one that hits at both Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis and the callousness with which many European nations treat migrants who are desperately trying to reach their shores. Yet it has received scant attention in the American media—and the missing submersible story has dwarfed what coverage there has been. 

[scottpartridge]

Canada Warbler, an illustration for the @shikashikacollective project A Guide to the Birdsong of Migration (Kickstarter live now) featuring an album of music inspired by rare and vulnerable bird species.

Each species is paired with a musician or music group. The Canada Warbler will be paired with @masallamasaya & @lidopimienta

[danthefish]

Updated version of my last post

Leafie: A Hen into the Wild was added by popular request (of exactly two people)

[gregor-samsung]

جاده خاکی [Hit the Road] (Panah Panahi, 2021)

[typhlonectes]

Songbirds socialize on the wing during migration, new study says

The night sky teems with migrating songbirds, aloft in their millions following routes etched in evolutionary time. But those flight paths may not be entirely innate, according to new research led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Evidence from over 18,300 hours of recorded flight calls suggests songbirds may “talk” to other species as they migrate, forming social connections and — just maybe — exchanging information about the journey. “We can’t be sure what they’re saying, but birds might broadcast calls during flight to signal their species, age, and sex. And we can certainly speculate that these flight calls could relate to navigation or finding suitable stopover habitat,” said lead study author Benjamin Van Doren...

Read more: https://aces.illinois.edu/news/songbirds-socialize-wing-during-migration-new-study-says

[wip]

After Tumblr's backend migration to Wordpress, will the entire content of all half of billion blogs will be deleted??

Answer: Hi, @garotaviciada!

It’s important to note here that this is just the engine running the site, and there will be no changes to the front-end. So no—we’re not deleting content. All of Tumblr’s blogs, and the content on them, will continue to be served, both at the blog address and in the apps. There will just be different tech running under the hood.

Perhaps the simplest way to say so is that, besides a bug or two here or there, how you know and use Tumblr will not change at all. We hope this helps clarify things.

As it happens, we have answered similar questions here and here in the recent past—they also might be of interest. Thanks for getting in touch, and keep the questions coming, folks!

[solarpunks]

This bird came back from extinction - now scientists in a glider are teaching it to migrate

Extinct in central Europe for 300 years, 36 northern bald ibis are following an ultralight aircraft on their long-forgotten migration route from Austria to Spain

Fritz was inspired by the 1996 film Fly Away Home in which the main character flies an ultralight plane to show orphaned geese their migratory path. The film was based on the work of “Father Goose” Bill Lishman, a naturalist who taught Canadian geese in the same way in 1988.

Breeding efforts to increase their population over the past two decades have been successful, but without guidance from wild ancestors, the birds – known for their bald red head and long curved beak – no longer had any knowledge of which direction to fly for winter. Early reintroduction attempts were largely unsuccessful – instead of returning to suitable wintering grounds such as Tuscany, Italy, the birds flew in different directions and died.

When they reach the wintering grounds, the birds become fully independent and no longer need their foster parents, although they still recognise them years later and actively approach to say hello (the birds have a ritual greeting in which they spread their hair and bow, making a “chrrupp” noise). The central European population has increased from zero to almost 300 since the start of the project in 2002, and in 2011 the first bird migrated back to Bavaria from Tuscany without human help.

This is amazing and also very sweet. Do click though and read the whole article at the Guardian.

[laurens-german]

MIGRATION 2023, dir. Benjamin Renner, Guylo Homsy

[herpsandbirds]

The Magic in the Mud:  Sandpipers’ Migration Superfood

An invisible fuel draws thousands of tiny migrating shorebirds to the Roberts Bank Mudflats each year. Now, we’re in danger of losing it forever.

Western sandpipers migrate thousands of kilometres north along the Pacific coast from their overwintering areas as far south as Peru to their breeding grounds in Alaska. These shorebirds, weighing no more than 35 grams, stop at just a handful of places along the North American Pacific Flyway to refuel. Roberts Bank is one of these stopover sites, on the Fraser River estuary in British Columbia. A top biodiversity hotspot in Canada, it’s globally classified as an Important Bird Area...

Read more: https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-magic-in-the-mud-sandpipers-migration-superfood