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flying and also where those guys goin Are they doing. And how do they know, like seems little late, like are you doing it down, and how do you know how to get there? Then I did wrong with his friends. Have we know the answers to some of these questions and we're talking about bird migration? This comes from our old friends at helstone works that come and illegally. Who did, I think, a really great job. Writing a very succinct article on the school topic adviser to go check it out, read it. Air, but the notion about birds flying south for the winter. We should say right off. The bat is like this is a very

so too lazy way of putting it, because there are more than nine hundred species of birds, and so you need to saint birds vying south. You can't say that about all birds, because not all birds do fly south; no, they don't, but the ones they do fly south are incredibly fascinating because, like you said all those questions you have, we have a lot of answers to and that the urge to migrate has a name that's one of the things I love about this truck there, some great terms hidden within it, the one that I didn't write land into by the way migratory restlessness now ok photo period. No, those are aiming to give them all away. Okay, but the the the natural urge- and I would guess an unconscious- urge to feel bored and to migrate- is called migratory restlessness and a lotta times the chalk it up to a change in the length of the day.

Is called the photo period. That right, I only we set about seventy five percent of birds do migrate and that this kind of like Two buckets on. Why you would this? Is that first bucket, which is the the daylight kind of giving them a q? And this means that there The daylight is given them mchugh, they're, not flying south because, like let's get him the chilly in the worms aren't quite what they used to be. But it's more like hey that the daylight is changing. That's a signal.

If that means we are known as bad name: obligate, migrants. Okay, that's a good one, pretty good yeah! If that means that nature is Kim commanding you to go migrate, your yeah, this isn't any choice that you're making. This is just part of who you are you migrate as a member of this bird species? Yes, and if you're an obligate migrant you probably open up for the talking heads in the eighties would be my guess. So the good thing about obligate migrants is because it's so hard wired, their behavior is very predictable and easily studied. Like the trip, the distance they travel is going to be basically the same year after year, generation after generation, when they go was going to be about the same when they come back. It's going to be about the same they're, just extraordinarily dependable, right, yeah, the the ones that you can't count on at all are the facultative migrant. and I said it right. I didn't added an extra syllable,

it's not nearly as good of a band name. For that reason, it's a little clunky. It is tag clunky, but these are the ones that migrate, because they have to they're really lazy. As far as migration goes, yeah, I mean they're, the ones that take the queues around them. I can like them because you're not like is gonna, do because the daylight says so: ok, they do it, because food might be getting short or it might be getting a little chile for them or whatever We basically know we can't stick around here. So let's hit the road right or hit the hit, the sky they're kind of like the surfers of migrating birds. That's right! I, like that, should we break now. Oh yeah geez, alright cliffhanger! This is the shorty, my friend, let's get back to it in a minute. Okay! Well, now we're on the road driving in your truck? Why not learn a thing or two from josh, charles stuff, you should know

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what's the number, how many miles. Well, if you ask doktor andrew Farnsworth, the cornell lab of orange ornithology, the metrics are all over the ball park. Exclamation point how stuff works at heart to doktor Farnsworth. By the way, I can't see enough about how stuff works chuck so doktor farnsworth says that, depending on the bird It's the species. I never thought about this. They may not really move anywhere as far as like a human would think of it. Like on a mountain they you're probably going to stay on the mountain. They just might change altitude, like you know, a few hundred meters. This way a few hundred meters that way yeah it makes a huge difference depending on the season and that get counts as migration. I I love that one.

Sure they might stay in the same region or the same area. They might stay in the same state. And just you know here in georgia you could migrate just a little further south in the winter and ah have some very nice weather yeah. There's a pretty big difference between north georgia and south georgia weather wise yeah big time or you could really get on your horse or your wing and you're migration may be like truly and I guess we should talk about the most epic- is the arctic arctic that word, the arctic turn they go from pulled a pole. They go from the antarctic to the arctic. and that's the last time, I have to say that, and that is a round trip of close to nineteen thousand miles, or thirty thousand clicks can say, clicks sure did note. That was bad cause. It do you think of vietnam. I don't know-

was called it clicks, that's what I associate it with, but I only heard it in the vietnam war movies. I didn't know that was a bad thing anyway, let's just call it kilometers and as the largest and earn rather the longest migrate, on planet earth, for anything yeah, any animal whatsoever. It's pretty pretty impressive and I found one called the bar tailed godwit. They hold the record for the longest non, stop flight of, or let's hear it. They fly nonstop over sixty eight hundred miles from alaska to new zealand without Wow, can you imagine yeah that's a real reaction by the way we don't sometimes we'll surprise each other with facts to them, sometimes we're being coy yeah. You thought I was gonna bust out something but the blackpool warblers dinner. I need have something new for me, so that was that was a real reaction and we welcome that that could actor debts to initiate

set me up for that one, oh, of course I did, and so the the destination is kind of the last. It's like whether or not they migrate or not how far they great and now like where they gonna go, and this one is really interesting, because You don't know for sure and they're trying to answer these questions by their lot of super cool ideas about it and one really cool sort of side note. This is some species of birds will go to them. in place every single year, just like you're going on a vacation and they have the same rest stops every year, just like you might owner of a asian, yellow, actually learn landmarks to follow and yeah. That's pretty cool, because that means that if you see some canadian geese in your backyard, one you're, probably gonna, see him the next year and so on and so forth. Erika call. They also think that there is just a number of redundant systems that basically allow birds to navigate

One of them, apparently, is learning how to navigate by the stars here by constellations. Pretty impressive fur bird like people they also We can use the sun to orient themselves, but then they have other they. Leave. They have other onboard equipment like an ability to see the earth's electromagnetic field and orient themselves that way. Yeah and you said see like some birds may sense it, but they actually think that some birds there's a theory that some have a special pigment that literally lets them, see it yeah, which is worthwhile to think about. I would love to see that I guarantee in the next fifty to seventy years, we're going to have all sorts of ways to see like you ve, to see magnetic fields just to see all sorts of just to experience the world in different ways that we aren't even thinking of right. Now I guarantee it's going to be like a huge

as time yeah or put on the special glasses and someone's closer off that x, ray glass, yeah, good idea. You're gonna make a million bucks off of that. Did you you see the ricky derivation extras. Ah, there's a great bear in mind that you should look up just a scene with Patrick Stuart, sir Patrick Stuart UK, where he's Ricky Jervis goes in his trailer, and this is a short when so I can The story real, quick, the ricky gervais skos in his trailer. He is an extra on movies and tv shows as the whole premise of the show, and he seek some advice he's like I'm just an extra in- You know I'm trying to write screenplays and make my own way and sir Patrick Stuart, like. The bonds with miss again, I'm unready man screenplays as well in his big idea, is the hit he is like has superpower is that he can Women's clothes, just fall right off their body and Ricky Jervis keeps

Two going, I again you and then what happens in and like trying to get to some further plot point. Hedge extort does saying- and you know that police officer, GI comes up, and I just look at her and her clothes It's come right off and I can see everything. That's hilarious. It's really funny! It's that in the liam Neeson scene for extras I'll, just say classic. What's hilarious is that ideas, basically the basis of zapped that scott movie from the eighties sure maybe are which stewart wrote that maybe he or is a big fan of it and ripped it off. You never know, I think chuck. I'm sensing like a bird can sense. Earth's magnetic field that short stuff is out. You correct stuff, you should know- is the production of iheart radio for more passed. My heart- Is it that I heard radio out apple had passed over every listen to your favorite show?

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