Scientists Tracking Tiny Songbirds Make Surprising Discovery
In May of 2013, in the Cumberland Mountains of North Eastern Tennessee, Dr. Henry Streby from UC Berkeley and his colleagues from the Universities of Tennessee and Minnesota captured and equipped 20 tiny golden warblers with geo-locators to see if their migration patterns could be tracked in this way. Eleven months later, in April 2014, the scientists were celebrating the unexpected success of their pilot study after 10 of the 20 birds returned to nest – with tracking devices in tact – following a 3100-mile return trip home from Columbia, South America.
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