GPS tags mapped 17 woodcock crossings over the Gulf of Maine and revealed three invisible routes, with four flights reaching future turbine-blade height even though more than 88% of the birds would miss the wind sites entirely

The sky above the Gulf of Maine gets busy in autumn. Dozens of American woodcocks that spend the warmer months feeding in the north migrate to the southern and southeastern regions for winter. Avian researchers fitted some of these birds with miniature GPS tags to track their risky open-water flights and compare their paths to ... Read more