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> seems pointless I'm more wondering about the effects of seed/life transfer. Doesn't seem feasible to me.
by interestica 5y ago
> seems pointless
I'm more wondering about the effects of seed/life transfer. Doesn't seem feasible to me.
- hadlock 5y agoEvery year or two, people decide to fly from North America to Europe in a short range Cessna. They get the extra fuel tankage package, then hop from PEI to Greenland, Greenland to Iceland, then Iceland to.... Svalbard, or maybe somewhere in the Scotish Isles. From there it's pretty standard flight operations over local bodies of water. If a Cessna can do it, that's well within a bird's migratory travel distance.
- EamonnMR 5y agoYeah but you think they'd save fuel and locally source the twigs
- scythe 5y agoPossibly not if the goal is to impress a potential mate.
- heavenlyblue 5y agoHave you just invented this or is that actually some well-known fact that birds impress potential mates this way?
- washadjeffmad 5y agoThe joke is that the Cessna fliers are doing it to collect the twigs. If you edit out 'birds', it'd be pure comedy.
- repiret 5y agoI was under the impression that was still the standard way to move GA aircraft across the Atlantic, and happened regularly.
- jcims 5y agoThat’s a walk in the park https://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/migration-marathons-7-unbelievable-bird-journeys https://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/migration-marathons-... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_tern#Distribution_and_migration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_tern#Distribution_and...
- canadianfella 5y agoThe birds you listed don’t fly across oceans to get twigs.
- aasasd 5y agoA bit different, but IIRC some seeds spread by passing through birds' digestive tract—which sidesteps the bird's decisions on the luggage. However, I'd guess the distance travelled is much shorter in this case.