The Dashboard shows how many birds are estimated to have flown over a particular county in the lower 48 states on any given night during migration, update in near-real time. We don't come close to knowing all the patterns that you will be able to explore when you look at this tool.

There is tremendous potential for learning, here. We want to elevate people's abilities to understand bird migration, to talk about migration. That's been fascinating, but now you can also get a feel for what's going on in your own neck of the woods. 'In recent years, we've been able to visualize and forecast the movements of migrating birds on a continent-wide scale, using weather surveillance radar. 'With this new Migration Dashboard, you get facts and figures about what's going on in the skies above you at the county level in near-real time,' said Andrew Farnsworth, senior researcher with BirdCast. The Dashboard reveals bird migration in localized detail previously unavailable to the general public. The BirdCast program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is exploring these unseen movements with its new Migration Dashboard.

Billions of birds make their incredible journeys under cover of darkness. Newswise - Ithaca, NY -Bird migration is one of the greatest mostly-unseen spectacles of nature.

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