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Mar 12, 2024 · Norwegian bird researchers are about to employ a new approach to studying these annual bird migration patterns, through the use of weather radar data, which may help to protect our skyfaring...
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May 10, 2022 · Wind turbines should be built at least 12 miles away from Great Lakes shorelines in order to protect the stopover habitats of migrating birds, according to a new analysis of flocks picked up on weather radar systems.
Fall migration will bring 4 billion birds into the skies over the United States. That’s not a guess—it’s hard data, gleaned from the first-ever national bird count using weather radar. Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientists analyzed data from 143 weather radar stations from 2013 to 2017 to provide the first large-scale counts of migratory ...
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Researchers announced Thursday in Science a new way to predict daily fluctuations in the number of birds taking to the skies. They developed the tool using a combination of radar, machine learning — a type of artificial intelligence — and weather forecasts.
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Radar, an acronym for radio detection and ranging, was originally developed to detect enemy aircraft in World War II. As the decades have passed, it has become a valuable tool for studying all kinds of objects in the atmosphere. One of radar’s most common applications is the detection of meteorological events—especially thunderstorms, tornados, and...
Equipped with computing power and advanced radar technology, we can begin to provide detailed data on avian activity in the atmosphere
The BirdCast team, along with other radar ornithologists, uses a broad array of tools to make sense of a treasure trove of information collected by radars about birds, such as migration density, flight speed, and direction. Our data are not complete, though. Many advances in radar technology have aided in our abilities to differentiate birds from r...
Sep 24, 2014 · Weather radar can tell you whether to pack an umbrella and poncho for the day, but, to ornithologists and others in the know, it also reveals the tell-tale signatures of migrating birds.
It’s true. Weather radar images show where radar beams have been “reflected” as they sweep the atmosphere. They’re useful for showing weather conditions because the beams are reflected by precipitation and the water vapor in clouds, but they can also be reflected by swarming masses of birds or insects.
