BirdCast, developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is another tool that you may find helpful when exploring the wonders of migration. Using BirdCast, you can explore the pulses of bird migration in live time, day by day. Using data from weather radar systems, this powerful tool uses real-life detections of flocks of birds in flight to track the pulses of avian migration. By combining observed movements of birds in flight, with forecasts of incoming weather fronts, the BirdCast application displays the predicted volume of migrants moving through your area for a given date. This makes BirdCast a powerful tool with which to know when and where to keep an eye out for possibly unique migrant species. In this way, BirdCast is also capable of alerting the need for protective measures to be taken for these major flight events; for examples, some urban areas have begun turning off unnecessary light infrastructures during these major flight events- given that birds are known to be perilously attracted to lighted structures while in flight. So, after you check out Audubon’s migratory Bird Explorer App, be sure to also check out BirdCast as well.
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