19 August 2023
Fall migration is underway around the Northern Hemisphere. Some birds migrate by myself or in small flocks that don’t draw in a lot consideration. Others collect in such large flocks that they’re arduous to leave out.
At pinch issues alongside their migration routes from Europe to Africa, white storks (Ciconia ciconia) go back and forth in very massive flocks just like the kettles of broad-winged hawks in North The usa. Two such pinch issues are within the airspace over Israel, above, and on the Strait of Gibraltar.
On this quick video white storks are about to move the Straits from Spain to Morocco however hit a wall within the air — the levant wind blowing from the east — so that they wheel again. They didn’t go away Spain that day.
1,640 White #Storks making an attempt to move The #Straits this morning ! The #levante wind forcing them to wreck rank and head again ! ….perhaps the next day to come. #FlywayBirding #Tarifa #Facinas #Birding #Migration #VisMig %.twitter.com/TUcgIc3Rth
— Inglorious Bustards (@Otis_inglorius) August 9, 2023
In North The usa semipalmated sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) migrate in large numbers from their breeding grounds within the Arctic to the shores of South The usa.
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On the Bay of Fundy the flocks can quantity within the masses of hundreds in August and early September.
One spotlight on our @EagleEyeTours travel to New Brunswick is a consult with to Johnson Generators Shorebird Reserve. But even so the improbable Bay of Fundy tides, we witnessed the spectacle of 65+ THOUSAND Semipalmated Sandpipers roosting, flocking and doing synchronized aerial acrobatics. %.twitter.com/6aqAJUtt9p
— Jared Clarke (@birdtherock) August 18, 2023
(footage from Wikimedia Commons; tweets embedded)