Herein we explain that birds do not hibernate in lakes, do not migrate to the moon, but DO go on very unique journeys, which we humans have learned about in a variety of ingenious manners.

CREDITS
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Created by Henry Reich
Video Concept and Writing: Laurie Allmann
Animation: Ever Salazar
Production and Writing Team: Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert
Music: Nathaniel Schroeder

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Bartailed Godwit
Photo by: Andreas Trepte www.photonatur.de
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bar...

Birds Hibernating
http://blogs.northampton.ac.uk/mikere...

Artic Tern
Photo by: Malene Thyssen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hav...

Geolocator
Photo by: Lyndon Kearsley & Theo Geuens
http://www.migratetech.co.uk/geolocat...

Raisin
Photo by: Cary Bass
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...


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REFERENCES
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Preuss, N.O. 2001. Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen: aspects of his life and of the history of bird ringing . Ardea 89(special issue) : 16 .
http://ardea.nou.nu/ardea_show_articl...

First banded bird recovery in Africa:
http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/PDF/pub07_wa...

Discoveries with satellite telemetry:
bartailed Godwits fly nonstop over the Pacific, from Alaska to New Zealand, a 7000 mile journey at an average speed of over 35 miles per hour, in about 8 days
[http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowle...]

Eagle migration tracking:
http://www.raptorsinternational.org/...

Arctic tern, longest migration:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ne...
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/5/207...

Ancient Migration theory:
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2228.htm
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/bi...

Bartailed godwits:
http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowle...

Bird Migration: A General Survey By Peter Berthold
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&l...

Bald Eagle tracking: http://www.raptorsinternational.org/...
citation to original paper: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/5...