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Flight Record: Songbirds Trek 9,000 Miles to Africa | Longest Animal Migrations & Arctic Birds | African Birds
Tiny songbirds weighing no more than two tablespoons of salt apparently globe-trot regularly from the Arctic to Africa, crossing either Asia or the Atlantic to do it, scientists find. Researchers had known the northern wheatear ( Oenanthe oenanthe ) had one of the largest ranges of any songbird in the world, with breeding grounds extending from Alaska and extreme northwestern Canada across northeastern Canada and into Europe and Asia. The insect-eating birds apparently leave the Arctic region of the Western Hemisphere for the winter, but it was a mystery as to precisely where they migrated.
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Top 6 Sites that Inspire and Educate
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If you do not know what TED is, refer back to the original article . Otherwise, enjoy the awesomeness that these talks have to offer!
Best of TED Conference Talks: Part 1
10 Ways the Next 10 Years Are Going To Be Mind-Blowing
We are living in an extremely exciting time in terms of science and technology.
The video below shows scientific proof that there is something NOT quite logical or scientific about this universe.
This Will Mindfuck You: The Double-Slit Experiment
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