Lorna Gibson

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you know, in the north, and then they fly to Antarctica over the winter, over our winter, and then they fly back again.

And the people who do these migration studies, they will find the same bird at the same nest site the next year.

And so, you know, you sort of think like, how are they ever going to find the bird again?

But in fact, they can find the bird again because they do return to the same nesting sites.

And I had even a kind of local experience with this.

There was a robin that I used to see on my street.

And it had some, I don't know, it must have had some little defect in the melanin in its feathers.

And some of its wing feathers had little white patches on it, so it didn't look quite like a regular robin.

And that robin would come to our neighborhood

It would hang around within like three or four houses on the street.

It would disappear in the winter.

I assume it went south somewhere.

And then the next spring it would reappear and it was in the same three or four houses.

It wouldn't even like go down to the other end of the street.

It was like in one little part of the street this robin kind of hung out.

And it came back for, I don't know, three or four years I think I saw it.

No, they don't all migrate.

Some birds just stay in the same spot all year round.

I was kind of amazed to find out that chickadees have quite a wide range.

They live in Massachusetts and there's different kinds of chickadees in different parts of the country.

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