Where Do Birds Go
Where Do Birds Go
[Cueball is sitting at his desk with his computer.] Cueball: "Where do birds go when it rains?" is my new favorite Google search. Megan (off-screen): Why?
[Megan enters the frame.] Cueball: It gives the answer, but also shows you an endless torrent of other people asking the same question. Cueball: Pages and pages of them, across regions and cultures.
[The panel now only contains a Google search on the computer.] Cueball (off-screen): I love the idea that somehow this is the universal question, the thing that unites us. Cueball (off-screen): When it rains, we wonder where the birds go, Cueball (off-screen): and hope they're staying dry.

[A collage of screen snippets.]
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do the birds go when it rains? I've noticed I rarely see birds flying around or in trees or on power lines when it's raining, So where do they go?
from Godlike Productions : Where do birds go when it rains really hard?
Ok, maybe I'm an idiot for asking this, but during the slew of several storms in California the last couple weeks, I began to wonder where the poor birds go to stay dry? The ducks, seagulls, owls, sparrows, hummingbirds, hawks, etc...I see them all the ti[...]
from Random Thoughts From Midlife : Where do the birds go when it rains?
from Answers.com : Where do birds go when it rains?
from Yahoo! Respuestas : ¿A donde se van los pajaritos cuando llueve?
from Active Rain : Where do Birds go When it Rains? I'm no youngster...and I have no answer for this. I've talked to alot of people about the likelihood of where birds go when it rains and everyone has a different perspective.
from Ask MetaFilter : Where do the birds go when it rains? BirdFeederFilter: When it's gloomy and rainy, I don't see any birds at my birdfeeder for days on end. Then as soon as it's sunny, they're all over the place. What gives? What do they do on rainy days, just forage near their nest?
from Snippets : Where do city birds go when it rains?
from http://wenwen.sogou.com/ : 下雨时鸟儿往哪躲
没有大树,没有屋檐,怎么办
from eNature.com : Storm shelter In Florida, where I live, we get many thunderstorms, but I never see the birds in trees during the storms. We recently had a tropical storm and I did not see any birds in the trees. Where do birds go when it rains or storms? Just like at night, birds will seek shelter during storms. I remember watching a flock of American robins dive into[...]
from Yahoo! Answers : When it is raining heavily, where do the birds go...i don't see them on the trees, where do they take shelter?
from Yahoo! Questions Réponses : Où se cachent les oiseaux quand il pleut? De ma fenêtre, je n'en aperçois plus un!!!...Les pies semblent avoir abandonné leurs nids...
from gutefrage.net : was passiert jetzt eigentlich mit den vögeln, die bei dem wetter in den bäumen sitzen? bei uns regnet es heftig und der orkanartige wind wechelst ständig richtung und geschwindigkeit. können sich die vögel da in den bäumen halten? retten sie sich instinktiv vorher irgendwohin, wo sie windgeschützt sind?
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do birds go when it rains? I never see any out...?
from lainformacion.com : ¿Qué pasa con las aves durante un huracán?
from Baidu : 下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？ 下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？如果是在春天夏天那还好，有树叶遮挡着，但是到了秋天冬天下雨小鸟住在哪里？还住在在树上搭的窝里吗？不怕冻坏自己和小幼崽吗？如果躲雨那就在哪里躲雨呢？怎么没见过它们躲雨？ 谢谢。
from Fairfax Underground : What do birds do when it rains? Recently I installed a bird feeder outside my bedroom window. It is so wonderful the diversity of our feathered friends that frequent the feeder! I love it. My question that I haven't found an answer to is this: What do the little birdies do when it rains? I mean, do they stay put in the trees that they find themselves in,
from a blog on vuodatus.net : Minne linnut menevät sateella? Tänään satoi rankasti. Kuljin metsän halki. Kuulin linnun laulavan. Yksinäinen, mutta itsenäinen ja vahva, tulkitseva ääni. Kaunis. Minne linnut menevät sateella? En ole koskaan nähnyt lintuja rankkasateessa. Luulen, että ne yrittävät löytää suojan. Kuusien ja mäntyjen oksistossa on varmaan suojaisaa. Kallioiden koloihin ja pieniin luolastoihin voi ehkä lintukin hiipiä. Rohkeille löytyy pihoilta suojapaikkoja. Ehkä linnulla oli oma pesäkolo. Siellä oli lämmintä ja kuivaa. Sieltä saattoi rauhassa katsella sateen vierailua metsässä. Siellä saattoi jopa iloita sateesta ja laulaa.
from Yahoo! Answers : What do the birds do when it RAINS like crazy? I live in upstate new york and just moved here and there are so many many birds here especially where I live, the other day I saw a broken egg on the ground in the drive way from a [...show more link] Update : I know they get wet btw but was wondering if they did anything extra to [...show more link] Best Answer Well... it depends on the species of bird, for one. Some are more adapted for rain then others.
from Willem Wever : Waar blijven de vogels als het heel hard stormt? Bij hevige stormen zoekt een vogel de beschutting die bij hem past. Er zijn een aantal vogels die met storm wel vliegen. Maar bij een echte hevige storm schuilen [...]
from http://wenwen.sogou.com/ 为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来? 刚刚下很大的雨,却还看到有几只鸟一直在天上飞.为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来? 补充 ：有照片的加分
from speed guide forums : Where do birds go when it rains? Do they just sit in their trees as it rains getting drenched? Or do they seek shelter?
from Google books : Where Do All The Birds Go When It Rains? By Misty Hoopman
[Screen snippets begin to noticeably fade to white at this point.]
from vimeo : WHERE DO BIRDS GO WHEN IT RAINS? One young magpie will give its own story. Barring the thunder and heavy rain, all the sounds on this movie are from this one young maggie. Amazing
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do birds go during wind and rain storms? Where do birds go during wind and rain storms?
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do birds go when it rains? I mean, they can't keep dry in their nests...They have to go somewhere.
from Yahoo! Answers : Burung Dapat Bertahan Terbang Berapa Lama Disaat Hujan?
from vogel.info : Was machen Vögel bei schlechtem Wetter? Zunächst mal, was sie nicht machen: Sie verkriechen sich nicht etwa in ihr Nest, denn das Vogelnest dient der Brutpflege, es ist nicht etwa eine Wohnung. Es stellt sich aber ja auch die Frage, was eigentlich unter schlechtem Wetter zu verstehen ist: Es gibt Vögel, die leiden unter zuviel Sonne und[...]
from gutefrage.net : Wohin gehen Vögel? Hallo zusammen! Heute als es so richtige Gewitter gab, hab ich mir überlegt wohin alle Vögel verschwinden. Haben alle Vögel Nester in die sie sich zurückziehen können? [link to view complete question.]
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do birds go when it rains? Well, yesterday it was raining...I was bored so i started staring out the window, and i say a empty birds nest and i was wondering, where do birds go when it rains?
from Diolún Designs Blog : Where do Birds go when it rains or snows?
from The Andalusia Star-News : Where do birds go when it rains? I haven’t fed birds in my back yard for a long time, but I still enjoy the few I see perching on top of poles, an electric wire, tree branches, or scooting across the [...]
from Bird Ecology Study Group (blog) : Where do birds go when it rains? And what do they do then? It has been raining on and off these few weeks and the birds have not been around. Have you ever wondered what happened to them when it
from Naver Matome : 【雑学】暴風雨の時、鳥はどこに避難してるの？ 人間が歩くのも困難な暴風雨。その時、一番影響を受けるのは空を飛んでいる鳥達ですよね。彼らはどのように風雨を凌いでいるのか？ずーっと気になっていた事を調べてみました！
[At this point, at the bottom of the section, screen snippets are extremely faded.]
from The Daily Apple : Apple #431: Birds in the Rain Forgot until late tonight that I meant to make a new post. Since I didn't leave [...]
from Yahoo! answers : Where does birds go when it rains?

[A bird sits on a wire fence.]
[The bird looks around as raindrops fall.]
[The rain becomes heavier.]
[The bird flies down to a phone on the ground.]
[The bird lands on the phone. The rain is getting heavier.]
[The bird pecks on the phone.] W... H... E... R... E...   D... O...   B... I... R... D... S...

Cueball searches Google to find out where birds go when it rains. He finds that the question is asked worldwide, across many different languages and websites. A variety of screenshots are shown of different websites and forums where users have asked where birds go when it rains, with at least nine languages shown. The bottom of this panel fades to white, suggesting that the occurrence of these questions stretches on and on. Cueball expresses delight at the idea that this question is the one to which everyone wants to know the answer; worrying about birds getting wet is "the thing that unites us".
Later in the comic, a bird in the rain is also searching on the Internet for where birds go when it rains. This is humorously implying that a significant set of these questions are being typed by birds looking for a dry place after being caught in the rain, and not humans. This would make Cueball wrong; worrying about birds getting wet would not unite us. In reality, as the comic states, birds look for shelter so they can stay dry. On a rainy day you can usually find birds in leafy trees, caves or other kinds of cover.
In the Superman comics, Clark Kent is Superman, so you never observe both Clark Kent and Superman simultaneously. By analogy, the title text whimsically suggests that a possible inference from the observation that you never see birds and rain together is that birds are the rain. Perhaps birds are an unknown phase of water. In addition to its familiar phases of ice , vapor , and liquid water , water has more exotic phases such as low-temperature and high-pressure ices and supercritical gases ; why not birds?
The title text imbues the question with more philosophical significance than it warrants (prompted, perhaps, by Cueball's earlier hyperbole), and points up the irrationality of the implication that a question must be deep simply because a lot of people ask it, and that such questions demand a complex, radical answer.
Where do the birds go when it rains? ( archive )
[...] Where do birds go when it rains or storms? ( archive )
Where do Birds go When it Rains? ( archive )
Where do birds go when it rains really hard?
Where do the birds go when it rains?
Où se cachent les oiseaux quand il pleut? ( archive ) (Translation: Where do the birds hide themselves when it rains?)
was passiert jetzt eigentlich mit den vögeln, die bei dem wetter in den bäumen sitzen? [1] ( archive ) (Translation: What actually happens with the birds that are sitting in the trees in this weather?)
Was machen Vögel bei schlechtem Wetter? ( archive ) (Translation: What do birds do in bad weather?)
Wohin gehen Vögel? ( archive ) (Translation: Where do birds go?)
¿Qué pasa con las aves durante un huracán? ( archive ) (Translation: What happens to the birds during a hurricane?)
¿A donde se van los pajaritos cuando llueve? [2] ( archive ) (Translation: Where do the little birds go when it rains?)
Waar blijven de vogels als het heel hard stormt? (Translation: Where do birds stay when it is storming very hard?)
Minne linnut menevät sateella (Translation: Where do the birds go when it rains?)
下雨时鸟儿往哪躲 (Translation: When it rains, where do birds go to hide?)
下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里 (Translation: When it rains, where do the birds go?)
为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来? (Translation: When it rains, why do birds not fall down from getting soaked?)
【雑学】暴風雨の時、鳥はどこに避難してるの？ ( archive ) (Translation:【Miscellaneous Knowledge】Where do birds take shelter during a rainstorm?)
Burung Dapat Bertahan Terbang Berapa Lama Disaat Hujan ? ( archive ) (Translation: How Long Can Birds Survive Flying In the Rain ?)
[Cueball is sitting at his desk with his computer.] Cueball: "Where do birds go when it rains?" is my new favorite Google search. Megan (off-screen): Why?
[Megan enters the frame.] Cueball: It gives the answer, but also shows you an endless torrent of other people asking the same question. Cueball: Pages and pages of them, across regions and cultures.
[The panel now only contains a Google search on the computer.] Cueball (off-screen): I love the idea that somehow this is the universal question, the thing that unites us. Cueball (off-screen): When it rains, we wonder where the birds go, Cueball (off-screen): and hope they're staying dry.

[A collage of screen snippets.]
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do the birds go when it rains? I've noticed I rarely see birds flying around or in trees or on power lines when it's raining, So where do they go?
from Godlike Productions : Where do birds go when it rains really hard?
Ok, maybe I'm an idiot for asking this, but during the slew of several storms in California the last couple weeks, I began to wonder where the poor birds go to stay dry? The ducks, seagulls, owls, sparrows, hummingbirds, hawks, etc...I see them all the ti[...]
from Random Thoughts From Midlife : Where do the birds go when it rains?
from Answers.com : Where do birds go when it rains?
from Yahoo! Respuestas : ¿A donde se van los pajaritos cuando llueve?
from Active Rain : Where do Birds go When it Rains? I'm no youngster...and I have no answer for this. I've talked to alot of people about the likelihood of where birds go when it rains and everyone has a different perspective.
from Ask MetaFilter : Where do the birds go when it rains? BirdFeederFilter: When it's gloomy and rainy, I don't see any birds at my birdfeeder for days on end. Then as soon as it's sunny, they're all over the place. What gives? What do they do on rainy days, just forage near their nest?
from Snippets : Where do city birds go when it rains?
from http://wenwen.sogou.com/ : 下雨时鸟儿往哪躲
没有大树,没有屋檐,怎么办
from eNature.com : Storm shelter In Florida, where I live, we get many thunderstorms, but I never see the birds in trees during the storms. We recently had a tropical storm and I did not see any birds in the trees. Where do birds go when it rains or storms? Just like at night, birds will seek shelter during storms. I remember watching a flock of American robins dive into[...]
from Yahoo! Answers : When it is raining heavily, where do the birds go...i don't see them on the trees, where do they take shelter?
from Yahoo! Questions Réponses : Où se cachent les oiseaux quand il pleut? De ma fenêtre, je n'en aperçois plus un!!!...Les pies semblent avoir abandonné leurs nids...
from gutefrage.net : was passiert jetzt eigentlich mit den vögeln, die bei dem wetter in den bäumen sitzen? bei uns regnet es heftig und der orkanartige wind wechelst ständig richtung und geschwindigkeit. können sich die vögel da in den bäumen halten? retten sie sich instinktiv vorher irgendwohin, wo sie windgeschützt sind?
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do birds go when it rains? I never see any out...?
from lainformacion.com : ¿Qué pasa con las aves durante un huracán?
from Baidu : 下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？ 下雨的时候小鸟住在哪里？如果是在春天夏天那还好，有树叶遮挡着，但是到了秋天冬天下雨小鸟住在哪里？还住在在树上搭的窝里吗？不怕冻坏自己和小幼崽吗？如果躲雨那就在哪里躲雨呢？怎么没见过它们躲雨？ 谢谢。
from Fairfax Underground : What do birds do when it rains? Recently I installed a bird feeder outside my bedroom window. It is so wonderful the diversity of our feathered friends that frequent the feeder! I love it. My question that I haven't found an answer to is this: What do the little birdies do when it rains? I mean, do they stay put in the trees that they find themselves in,
from a blog on vuodatus.net : Minne linnut menevät sateella? Tänään satoi rankasti. Kuljin metsän halki. Kuulin linnun laulavan. Yksinäinen, mutta itsenäinen ja vahva, tulkitseva ääni. Kaunis. Minne linnut menevät sateella? En ole koskaan nähnyt lintuja rankkasateessa. Luulen, että ne yrittävät löytää suojan. Kuusien ja mäntyjen oksistossa on varmaan suojaisaa. Kallioiden koloihin ja pieniin luolastoihin voi ehkä lintukin hiipiä. Rohkeille löytyy pihoilta suojapaikkoja. Ehkä linnulla oli oma pesäkolo. Siellä oli lämmintä ja kuivaa. Sieltä saattoi rauhassa katsella sateen vierailua metsässä. Siellä saattoi jopa iloita sateesta ja laulaa.
from Yahoo! Answers : What do the birds do when it RAINS like crazy? I live in upstate new york and just moved here and there are so many many birds here especially where I live, the other day I saw a broken egg on the ground in the drive way from a [...show more link] Update : I know they get wet btw but was wondering if they did anything extra to [...show more link] Best Answer Well... it depends on the species of bird, for one. Some are more adapted for rain then others.
from Willem Wever : Waar blijven de vogels als het heel hard stormt? Bij hevige stormen zoekt een vogel de beschutting die bij hem past. Er zijn een aantal vogels die met storm wel vliegen. Maar bij een echte hevige storm schuilen [...]
from http://wenwen.sogou.com/ 为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来? 刚刚下很大的雨,却还看到有几只鸟一直在天上飞.为什么鸟儿下雨的时候在天上飞不会因为淋湿掉下来? 补充 ：有照片的加分
from speed guide forums : Where do birds go when it rains? Do they just sit in their trees as it rains getting drenched? Or do they seek shelter?
from Google books : Where Do All The Birds Go When It Rains? By Misty Hoopman
[Screen snippets begin to noticeably fade to white at this point.]
from vimeo : WHERE DO BIRDS GO WHEN IT RAINS? One young magpie will give its own story. Barring the thunder and heavy rain, all the sounds on this movie are from this one young maggie. Amazing
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do birds go during wind and rain storms? Where do birds go during wind and rain storms?
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do birds go when it rains? I mean, they can't keep dry in their nests...They have to go somewhere.
from Yahoo! Answers : Burung Dapat Bertahan Terbang Berapa Lama Disaat Hujan?
from vogel.info : Was machen Vögel bei schlechtem Wetter? Zunächst mal, was sie nicht machen: Sie verkriechen sich nicht etwa in ihr Nest, denn das Vogelnest dient der Brutpflege, es ist nicht etwa eine Wohnung. Es stellt sich aber ja auch die Frage, was eigentlich unter schlechtem Wetter zu verstehen ist: Es gibt Vögel, die leiden unter zuviel Sonne und[...]
from gutefrage.net : Wohin gehen Vögel? Hallo zusammen! Heute als es so richtige Gewitter gab, hab ich mir überlegt wohin alle Vögel verschwinden. Haben alle Vögel Nester in die sie sich zurückziehen können? [link to view complete question.]
from Yahoo! Answers : Where do birds go when it rains? Well, yesterday it was raining...I was bored so i started staring out the window, and i say a empty birds nest and i was wondering, where do birds go when it rains?
from Diolún Designs Blog : Where do Birds go when it rains or snows?
from The Andalusia Star-News : Where do birds go when it rains? I haven’t fed birds in my back yard for a long time, but I still enjoy the few I see perching on top of poles, an electric wire, tree branches, or scooting across the [...]
from Bird Ecology Study Group (blog) : Where do birds go when it rains? And what do they do then? It has been raining on and off these few weeks and the birds have not been around. Have you ever wondered what happened to them when it
from Naver Matome : 【雑学】暴風雨の時、鳥はどこに避難してるの？ 人間が歩くのも困難な暴風雨。その時、一番影響を受けるのは空を飛んでいる鳥達ですよね。彼らはどのように風雨を凌いでいるのか？ずーっと気になっていた事を調べてみました！
[At this point, at the bottom of the section, screen snippets are extremely faded.]
from The Daily Apple : Apple #431: Birds in the Rain Forgot until late tonight that I meant to make a new post. Since I didn't leave [...]
from Yahoo! answers : Where does birds go when it rains?

[A bird sits on a wire fence.]
[The bird looks around as raindrops fall.]
[The rain becomes heavier.]
[The bird flies down to a phone on the ground.]
[The bird lands on the phone. The rain is getting heavier.]
[The bird pecks on the phone.] W... H... E... R... E...   D... O...   B... I... R... D... S...
