The fastest bird of passage has a top speed of almost 100 km / h

Bird, capable not just to make long flights, but doing it incredibly quickly discovered Swedish ornithologists. According to them, such endurance can only be compared with the Jets. Keep the speed close to 100 km / h for more than 6,500 kilometers - no joke.

Biologists from the University of Lund in May secured on the backs of 10 male snipe (Gallinago media) Special geolokatory weighing only 1, 1 gram. A year later, they caught three of them and extracted the data collected. So it turned out that the birds travel from Sweden to Central Africa and back.

One of the birds flew for three and a half days of 6800 kilometers, the second 6170 km in three days, and finally overcame the last 4620 km in two days. At the same time the wind did not help the birds. Biologists analyzed data from satellites and found that tailwind flight path was not snipe.

Surprisingly, the grouse do not stop on the way, because their flight is mostly over land. Typically, ground birds sit down to rest and replenish their energy reserves (on the surface abundance of earthworms, insects and other invertebrates).

Source: www.membrana.ru

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