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April 5, 2015
Tiny songbird can fly the Atlantic
can fly over the north Atlantic, scientists have said, resolving a 50-year mystery. Tipping the scale at a mere 4.2 ounces (12 grammes), the white-throated, black-capped blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata) migrates each autumn from New England to South America. - Telegraph
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To "Fly the Atlantic" implies crossing it. True, to fly from New England to South America does almost certainly include flying over Atlantic waters, but that's not what the title implies. Or was "New..." a typo that actually should have read "Jolly Olde..."?
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at April 5, 2015 8:50 AM
I too wonder if I missed something.
A straight line from New England states to South America might put you over the Gulf of Mexico but thats not the Atlantic
Posted by: pkerot at April 5, 2015 2:10 PM
If you draw a straight line from the western most part of the New England states (westernmost New York)to the western most part of South America (western coast of Peru)that line will indeed be in the Atlantic Ocean and not the Gulf of Mexico,
barely grazing the eastern seaboard of Florida. A distance of 3,246 miles. shwew.... musta been tired when he got there
Posted by: ghostsniper at April 5, 2015 2:43 PM
That tiny little bird has a HUGE name. It was some fey poofter Brit twit who named it, isn't it? And once he identified it, he took out his tiny girlie shotgun (known as a "fowling piece"), and shot it.
Posted by: DonRodrigo at April 6, 2015 9:28 AM
My uncle Letsgo Lozko, a first-class breeder of Bantam chickens, read a lot of scientific journals.
He told me nine out of ten international experts agree that birds do not fly in a straight line.
That having been settled, we should look at the possibility of using these teeny innocent birds to spy on us humans. They can go places where a full-sized drone cannot. Intelligence agencies, oxymoronic as their name might be, already have terabytes of data gathered from the chicken world, or as we say in Chicago: The World of Chickens.
Yes, it has begun.
Posted by: chasmatic at April 7, 2015 5:32 AM