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BirdWatching • News & Features • Science • Young southern Red-tails make surprising northbound migrations each summer
Young southern Red-tails make surprising northbound migrations each summer
Red-tailed Hawk in southern California. Photo by Brent Bremer
Contrary to the widely held belief that southern populations of Red-tailed Hawks don't migrate, a 42-year study of Red-tails in southwestern California has revealed not only that they migrate, but that they fly north, not south.
Before the birds turn four years old, they embark on annual summer sojourns, traveling as much as 900 miles (1,460 km) from where they hatched. Then, in late summer or fall of the same year, they head back south to spend the winter in their natal area. Once the hawks find mates and establish territories, their migrations come to an end.
The finding is based on encounters with 64 Red-tails that were banded as nestlings and 16 fledglings that were fitted with backpack-mounted satellite transmitters. Most of the hawks hatched within a five-county area between Los Angeles and San Diego from 1970 through 2009. The birds flew as far north as Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Yellowstone National Park.
The research was led by internationally recognized raptor expert Peter H. Bloom. He and his colleagues compared their data with that for all other Red-tails banded as nestlings in North America since 1940. They discovered that hawks that were reared north of a line extending east from around San Francisco (38°N latitude) were most likely to migrate south. Birds reared south of the line tended to migrate north in summer, just as the birds from southwestern California had.
The movements are surprising but not unheard of. Bald Eagles from Florida, Texas, Arizona, and northern California make northbound journeys in summer, too, as do female Prairie Falcons that nest in southwestern Idaho. Bloom and his colleagues write in the March issue of the Journal of Raptor Research that a reduced availability of prey in southern regions in the warmer months is a primary reason for the flights of all three species.
Peter H. Bloom, Michael D. McCrary, J. Michael Scott, Joseph M. Papp, Karyn J. Sernka, Scott E. Thomas, Jeff W. Kidd, Edmund H. Henckel, Judith L. Henckel, and Marjorie J. Gibson, 2015, Northward Summer Migration of Red-Tailed Hawks Fledged from Southern Latitudes. Journal of Raptor Research, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 1-17. PDF.
See photos of Red-tailed Hawk.
A version of this article appeared in the June 2015 issue of BirdWatching magazine. Subscribe.
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"The book is a thing."
책이 not 책가 because 책 ends in a consonant.
Android users, you cannot see the tips on your phone.
In another sentence "Bread is food" (빵은 음식입니다), it accepts the particle 은/는. Why not on this one? Maybe it just needs a fix, or is there a rule here? These sentences seem to be grammatically similar. Thanks.
Thanks! Is there a reason for that? It seems that in certain situations the topic and subject markers are interchangeable but I'm not sure when.
Why is this 책이 (subject) and not 책은 (topic)? It's a sentence about books, the book isn't performing an action.
Why is the subject particle not needed?
이 - Subject marker, used after a consonant e.g. 연필이 - The pencil. Used when you're talking about something specific e.g. THE pencil is a thing.
Should 책은 물건입니다 be accepted?
So from my understanding "ibnida" means "to be?"
So is "The book is a thing" the same as "The books are things"?
Yes. And even "Books are things".
Okay so when you pronounce 물건입니다, 입 is silent? I'm not understanding the pronunciation.
When you have ㅂ followed by ㄴ, the pronunciation of ㅂ changes to ㅁ. There are a few other cases where the pronunciation of letters chsnge based in the consonant thst follows. I found www.howtostudykorean.com really helpful for learning the alphabet and some of the basic pronunciation rules.
What is 물? I know that 것 means thing so what is the purpose of 물?


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