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129.HOW DO BIRDS KNOW WHEN TO MIGRATE?

The migration of birds has fascinated man since the very beginning of history. Did you know that Homer wrote about it in 1000 B.C.; it’s mentioned in the Bible; and the great Greek philosopher, Aristotle, studied the question?

And yet, so many thousands of years later, we still don’t have the complete answers to the fascinating phenomenon of the migration of birds. By this migration, we mean the movement of birds south in the fall and north in the spring, or moving from lowlands to highlands, or from the interior to the seacoasts.