Spying on bird migration with weather radar | The Secret Lives Of Our Urban Birds

We know very little about nighttime bird migration in Australia. Is weather radar the secret to tracking their movements? Subscribe to ABC Science KZbin 👉 ab.co/2YFO4Go
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[@thomashaugh8720]

This was really interesting… keep nerding nerds 😉

[@ABCScience]

Will do!

[@kenkurton]

Maybe they should use it to track lost cats and dogs?

[@kidfreejones]

On radar cause they fly when they lost 😉

[@BradGryphonn]

This would be awesome fun for me. We are lucky enough to still have a wide variety of birdlife living and passing through where I live on the Northern outskirts of Brisbane, backing onto a large tract of protected wetlands and mangrove lined creeks. Densely packed suburbia across the road to the southwest, west, and northwest, with salt flats and open forest to the northeast, east, and southeast. Sadly, this block, which is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including wallabies, koalas, Long-nosed Potoroos, pythons, blue tongue skinks, and a variety of nesting birds, is earmarked for development. Sixty-two home units will be built on the higher ground in the next few years. It'll be sad to leave and have to worry about how the animals will fare when the place gets bulldozed. When the thick forest was cleared for land development at the north side of this property, at least one koala was lost that I witnessed.