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Geese Migration - 2009/2010?
I live in southern New Jersey, and maybe this question is just another sign of my advancing senility. But it seems as if the southern-aimed migration of geese (which are the species I notice, though I know other birds fly south for the Winter) seems to be more confused this year - more so even than the last few. It seems that I haven't seen nearly as many flocks headed toward the southern climes and flocks that seem to head north-by-west as often as they head south, and we are well into Winter. Anybody se the same thing I think I'm seeing? There has GOT to be someone here who knows more about this than I do.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Much like human ideal vacation spots change, birds have a tendency to this as well. I actually read a news story about this about a month ago, one of the California schools (Stanford or Berkeley, probably) did a study on the migration patterns of birds over several decades time. Apparently, it's natural for birds to choose a different route after a while. What's really fascinating to me though, is that when the time does come, it's only about a half dozen generations of birds(which is NOT a lot at all) that make the switch, and the rest just follow along for another century or so possibly! I wonder what's going through their little brains!
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