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127 - Fall Migration Already Started (And You Probably Missed It)
It’s the end of July, and while the rest of us are still thinking pools and barbecues, the birds have already started leaving. Not in September like most of us assume — right now. Em and I have been noticing shorebirds we hadn’t seen since April, gathering in loose flocks on wires, and it turns out there’s an entire invisible clock that’s been counting down since the moment this year’s babies fledged.
The Red-Winged Blackbird Timeline
A newly fledged blackbird isn’t ready to migrate for weeks — first it needs parental feeding, then a slow move toward independence, then an entirely new set of…
The skinny
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