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adroit in reply to @greentricky

Common Whitethroat. One of my favourite birds. Some overwinter in Namibia. Look at a a map and see their journey to the uk for summer. The adults leave first to go back for the winter and the young follow. How do they do that?

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greentricky in reply to @adroit

The migrations boggle my mind, I was looking up a bird the other day and it said it winters in the Sahel, a much shorter journey than Namibia and I find it amazing such small birds can do such long journeys and that they have evolved for that to be necessary

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Ludd in reply to @greentricky

I've just finished reading Tim Dee's book Greenery, in which he watches swallows, redstarts and stuff in opposite hemispheres. Quite astonishing.

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