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OU Students Use Nation's Weather Radar Network To Track Bird Migration At Night
2015-07-07 06:30:08| rfglobalnet News Articles
Using the nation’s weather radar network, two University of Oklahoma doctoral students have developed a technique for forecasting something other than the weather: the orientation behavior of birds as they migrate through the atmosphere at night. The students have discovered a way to use the latest dual-polarization radar upgrade to measure broad-scale flight orientation of nocturnal migrant birds—a promising development for biologists and bird enthusiasts.
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