NASA-Funded Research Follows Bird Flight; Birds Follow Their Noses

You might think birds skimming over the ocean wouldn’t seek wind unless it was pushing them in the right direction, but NASA-funded researchers have learned that storm petrels find stiff crosswinds worth the slowdown, in return for the clues and cues the gusts carry. In a paper published by the Royal Society’s Biology Letters May 13, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Italian Institute for […] The post NASA-Funded Research Follows Bird Flight; Birds Follow Their Noses appeared first on NASA Science.