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Related: About this forumHOW DO BIRDS KNOW WHEN TO MIGRATE?
DO MIGRATORY BIRDS HAVE A SIXTH SENSE?
How do migratory birds know how to migrate? Do they have a sixth sense? For us humans, its hard to put a finger on how we know when the seasons are changing from summer to fall. Like a Moon one night past the full, theres a sliver missing, a little nibbling at the edges of the season.
Even as the apples hang heavy and the air sharpens on the smell of wild grapes, summers riot is pared away. Is it a rattle in the oak leaves, frayed and leathery, when the wind blows? Or a dryness in the roadside flowers, the thirsty look of the goldenrod, the calico asters? Or a new nameless taste in the September air, as if our senses were privy to some intelligence they would just as soon keep to themselves? . .
But also interestingly, many species of birds experience restlessness every fall and spring known as Zugunruhe (TSOOG-un-roo-uh), in the weeks before their departure. This migration anxiety makes them seem hyperactive and antsy, particularly in the evenings or during the night, moving around or breaking into song for no reason at all. Their sleep patterns are changing. They know they are on the cusp of something new, a change of scene, an adventure. For this years fledglings, what that adventure will be is inconceivable. But nonetheless they feel it coming and ready themselves.'>>>
https://www.almanac.com/bird-migration-how-birds-know-when-to-migrate?
dweller
(23,629 posts)by the amount of sunlight they receive, similar to plants
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)Temperatures and length of day is what I thought
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)I miss them when they disappear for the summer.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)All of a sudden I didnt see them anymore. Im not seeing any migrators yet, but they are probably out there. (PA)