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Birders

elleng

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1. *Why so many birds in one day? Maciejewski and Pennsylvania Audubon can only guess.

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Wed Oct 7, 2020, 12:27 PM

Oct 2020

“This is complicated stuff,” he said.

It appears weather events lined up for the worse during what was likely the peak of migratory birds' flight from Canada, Maine, upstate New York and elsewhere toward Central and South America. A sudden plunge in temperatures could have prompted the birds to start their flights en masse.>>>

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