Blackpoll Warblers Make One of the Longest Nonstop Overwater Flights Ever Recorded for a Songbird (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Blackpoll Warblers Make One of the Longest Nonstop Overwater Flights Ever Recorded for a Songbird

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Blackpoll warbler fitted with a miniaturized light-sensing geolocator on its back that enabled researchers to track their exact migration routes from eastern Canada and New England south toward wintering grounds.

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Vermont Center for Ecostudies

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