Feathers in Flight: The Bird Genoscape Project | National Geographic

Billions of birds migrate annually across the Western Hemisphere… but if we don’t know where they go when they leave their breeding grounds, how can we protect them? By extracting DNA from individual feathers (and borrowing cutting-edge technology from the Human Genome Project) scientists can map bird migration with greater precision than ever before. The result is the Bird Genoscape Project, and it’s revolutionizing bird conservation by connecting migratory birds - and the people who care about them - across the Americas. This work was funded by the National Geographic Society. Learn more at www.natgeo.org.
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What was the most interesting fact you learned about bird migration from this video?

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I love birds ❤ There is just so many things that are amazing about them 😍

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Using bird feathers DNA to learn about bird migration. Very interesting

[@garygoss8977]

Planet wide disaster. in Africa we have lost much of the once plentiful migratory species . many are reduced in numbers and some scarce. maybe humans should not have decimated the insects.

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What was interesting to me was how multiple different kinds of birds have very diverse regions for each birds migration spot.

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I love animals. I want to be a zoologist where i can study animals and protect them. Most interesting fact for me is that more than 800 species of birds migrate from South to north America

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It is such a honor to be in a class with Dr. Ruegg. She is so passionate about her project and birds biology in general. I wish her the best of luck on her project and hopefully one day, I could contribute as well.

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It is wonderful for people of various countries, universities, and groups to study the same matter!!

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Aren't birds just the coolest feathery things ever.

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what else has feathers besides birds?

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Such beautiful creatures. It feels relaxing and freeing just seeing birds flutter about or soar higher in the skies. Kudos to the team behind the Bird Genoscape Project. And thank you as always Nat Geo for yet another highly interesting and excellent feature.

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We appreciate your comment, Simone. Stay curious!

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I live on the eastcoast of the USA, & its amazing how many tiny humming birds make the long flight from South America. Now I have to look up the other regular 'songbirds' that have been hanging out and the countries the humming birds come from.

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What an amazing story and effort. As a new found 'birder', I am routinely impressed with the variety of birds and what they do for our planet. Thank you for the efforts to help save this bird.

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Excellent episode, Cinematography was great. Bird Genoscape Project is extraordinary, congratulations to the wonderful people involved in it and the birds! I hope that the project spreads through out the world, So we can sequence more bird DNA.

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a fragile flight to liberation, fascinating bird life.

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Makes me sad that animals are still going extinct

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I really want to watch a nice doc about all birds not just the rarest and most popular.

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Wonderful and informative. Thank you.

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This is so inspiring! As an artist who is passionate about creature design, I will incorporate migration in my ideas!

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Doesn't plucking the feathers hurt the birds? Just asking cuz if it does I hate that and also happy cuz they're doing it for research

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Turn off the background music. Can't hear the birds. And the music is really terrible, too.

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What is going happen when more wind mills are erected and solar panels to produce electricity. What will be the death total be on the birds and wildlife?

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Why don't they just put GPS trackerson the birds ?

[@ronsmith1364]

Flight impairment makes them more vulnerable to predation. Look at the distances involved for something that can weigh only an oz. They pay "tolls" every migration.. Gaia always plays the numbers, until they hit zero sum.

[@kranstable]

The focal species in this video, the Willow Flycatcher, weighs between 11 and 16 grams. They are too small to safely carry the smallest GPS transmitters available without impacting their flight ability. The hope is that eventually transmitters will be small enough to track them and other small songbird species safely and accurately!

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Does anyone out there know if warblers tend to take the same route for spring as they do in fall? I just moved to an area in East Tennessee where there are almost no other birders keeping track of the warblers that live here and that pass through here….or at least if they are they aren’t making bird reports on eBird. I’m seeing fall migrants now in numbers that I never knew were even possible. Today, for instance, I counted 5 magnolia warblers, 4 redstarts, 4 summer tanagers, 5 Tennessee warblers and the list goes on and on. I’ve lived in the Smokies my whole life and I thought that’s where the birds were and boy oh boy nothing could be further from the truth. To see magnolias I used to have to drive an hour into the park to see them at around 5000ft. Here I saw 5 this morning just a few minutes from my house which is farmland at the foothills of the roan highlands. Does anyone know if I should expect these warblers and tanagers to take the same route in spring? Had that question ever been answered by anyone before? I’ve not seen spring migration yet here and I’m so excited about it that this could prove to be the longest winter of my life. Again I have no records to go through about this place and it’s birds because apparently nobody has been paying attention.

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This is better than my annoying books

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Love birds but no music would better

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What's the name of the bird appearing on thumbnail?

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So why are breeding numbers decreasing in the south? Are conservation laws held in the same regard at each stage of migratory routes? Example, it is still legal in France to tar tree barks that then capture passing song birds. These captured birds are then caged and used to lure hunted animals to specific locations. If a similarly cruel process is also used in the norther regions depicted in this short report then it is doubtful a migratory tarred bird is going to have sufficient strength to migrate their usual long distances. I mention this only as an example, and am not saying such cruel practices certainly take place in the northern regions of this depicted country. God bless

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Other people dedicate their lives to freeing wildlife from nets. And barbed wire, and any number of ish we put up. Catching birds in fine mesh nets to pluck their feathers seems like madness. Won't you alter their routes just through catching and plucking?

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