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  "path": "/blogs/science-news/2026/06/12/birds-follow-their-noses/",
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    "NASA-Funded Research Follows Bird Flight; Birds Follow Their Noses",
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  "textContent": "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 […]\n\nThe post NASA-Funded Research Follows Bird Flight; Birds Follow Their Noses appeared first on NASA Science.",
  "title": "NASA-Funded Research Follows Bird Flight; Birds Follow Their Noses"
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