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Migrating birds can be knocked off course by solar storms Migratory birds who rely on Earth’s magnetic field to navigate become lost during space weather events such as solar flares, a new study reveals. Nocturnally migratory birds – such as geese and swans, sandpipers and thrushes – use Earth’s magnetic field as a natural sat nav to guide them during their long seasonal migrations. But when space weather disrupts the magnetic field, fewer birds choose to fly, the findings show.
The final datasets for the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, included 1.7 million radar scans from the autumn and 1.4 million from the spring.
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