A huge swarm of birds migrating is nothing unusual - flocks can fly thousands of miles undetected.
But in a rare event on Monday, US National Weather Service radar captured birds migrating from South America over Florida.
Atmospheric conditions caused the systems to detect the birds, which took hours to fly over the Key West station.
The group measured at least 90 miles (145km) in radius, according to meteorologists.
In 2017 a swarm of migrating Printed Lady butterflies was detected by radar over Colorado, but the phenomenon is rare.
A GIF produced by the Weather Service shows the migrating birds in green and yellow, and rain depicted in blue. BBC
I'll admit it. At first I thought the radar had captured a bunch of Trump's tweets.
And then, no, they had captured a herd of Florida farmers doing the hokey pokey!
Imagine my disappointment when it was just a bunch of damn birds.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
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