Eagles changed migration route to avoid Ukraine war

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c88z0p33413o

by admp • 2 years ago

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admp• 2 years ago

Full paper (open access): https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)...

thatsit• 2 years ago

I‘m not sure if they factored in the massive GPS jamming and spoofing going on in a war zone?

throwaway44773• 2 years ago

I pictured eagles consulting google maps to find their way before I realized that some eagles have GPS tracking devices put on them.

Tanoc• 2 years 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.

Eagles changed migration route to avoid Ukraine war

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