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Eagles changed migration route to avoid Ukraine war

• admp 2y ago
  Full paper (open access): https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00519-0 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)...
• thatsit 2y ago
  I‘m not sure if they factored in the massive GPS jamming and spoofing going on in a war zone?
  • Tanoc 2y ago
    Dunno, but it's definitely something to consider. Birds are suspected to be able to "see" magnetic fields, and a lot of the electronic warfare both sides are waging require distorting these fields to a massive degree. If a bird can sense a huge cluster of warping magnetic anomalies it will avoid it, as we've seen them do in the past with radio telescope arrays and over-the-air TV antenna towers.
  • throwaway44773 2y ago
    I pictured eagles consulting google maps to find their way before I realized that some eagles have GPS tracking devices put on them.