Did you know that birds smaller than a robin can fly 214 miles in a single night? Or that a tiny warbler weighing less than a 50 cent piece can travel 750 miles in just 11 days?
Carnegie Museum of Natural History staff are making groundbreaking discoveries about bird migration by attaching state of the art transmitters to birds stopping over Powdermill Nature Reserve and using MOTUS towers (pictured above) to follow them along their spring migration.