Another route much used by water-birds extends from Nova Scotia to the Lesser Antilles and the northern coast of South America. It was the birds which were migrating along a portion of this route that guided Columbus to land.

How birds find their way. One of the puzzling problems of migration is how birds find their way during these long journeys. On June 7, 1911, a chimney swift fell through an opening in a chimney into a room of a house located in Meriden, New Hampshire. Mr. E. 11. Baynes was in the room and placed on the bird a small numbered leg-band and let the bird go.

About one year later, on June 15, 191, a chimney swift again fell through the same hole into the same room, and when 1ir. Baynes took up the bird he found it to be the same one he had banded the year before. This bird had traveled to Central America, spent the winter there, and then traveled back to the same town, and to exactly the same chimney it had occupied the previous year. How had it been able to find its way over this long route back to the same nesting-site?

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Whooping crane migration comes up short
While following an ultralight aircraft guiding them to Florida, young Maryland-bred birds get distracted in Alabama. They'll stay there for now. What's that saying about leading a horse to water? The latest effort to teach Maryland-bred whooping crane chicks to migrate to Florida for the winter has been called off because the endangered birds will no longer follow the ultralight aircraft leading ...
A Whooping Crane Migration Will Finish By Truck
The wayward birds could not be persuaded to follow a pilot flying an ultralight plane.
Green Blog: A Whooping Crane Migration Will Finish By Truck
The wayward birds could not be persuaded to follow a pilot flying an ultralight plane.
With whooping cranes unwilling to continue, annual migration ends in Alabama
By Barbara Behrendt, Times Staff Writer Thursday, February 2, 2012 CHASSAHOWITZKA ? The annual migration of ultralight-led whooping cranes had barely gotten off the ground in October when the problems began. First it was rain and wind that halted the birds in Wisconsin and across the Midwest. They would fly for a day, then have a week of downtime. In December, they finally reached northern ...
Grounded whooping cranes taking to the road
(Reuters) - A flock of young whooping cranes stuck in Alabama have lost interest in following an ultra-light plane leading them to a Florida winter habitat, so the rare birds' human coaches prepared on Friday to drive them to a nearby marsh. "Whether the birds have recognized this is as far as they need to go, we just don't know," said Liz Conde, a spokeswoman for Operation Migration, a public ...
Snowy owls soar south from Arctic in rare mass migration
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called "unbelievable." Thousands of the snow-white birds, which stand 2 feet tall with 5-foot wingspans, have been spotted from coast to coast, feeding in farmlands in Idaho, roosting on ...
Snowy Owls at Hancock Airport
Three birds here, part of a mass migration to the 'lower 48'
Migration of sandhill cranes is odd this winter
Sandhill crane migration is off schedule this year. Goose Pond property manager Brad Feaster counted 4,525 of them there on Tuesday. But were those birds southbound, northbound or ...
Worth the commute for migrating birds
QWhy do birds bother with migration all the way to South or Central America? Couldn't they winter in our southern states? ASome do go no farther than Missouri or Texas or Florida. But appropriate and adequate food supplies for many species require those long journeys.
Maryland-bred crane chicks to finish migration by truck
MD-bred Whoopers balk at following ultralight pilots to Florida What's that saying about leading a horse to water? The latest effort to teach Maryland-bred whooping crane chicks to migrate to Florida for the winter has been called off because the endangered birds will no longer follow the ultralight aircraft leading them.