Flight of Birds

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1874 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 9, pages 242-242 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Porter, Horace B.;

doi: 10.1038/009242d0

Flight of Birds

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DURING the hurricane of October 6, 1873, I was residing on the west shore of Biscayne Bay, South Florida. In the early part of the gale, and while it was approaching its height, I noticed overhead innumerable “man-of-war hawks.” They seemed to be “laying-to” (to use a nautical phrase), with but little motion of their wings; their heads were to wards the wind, but instead of moving backwards they seemed to drift off in a line calculated to take them directly away from the stormcentre.

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