MORNING HEADLINES | The fall’s annual super-avian migration across the Palmetto State is underway, peaking next month with as many as 600 million birds crossing our nighttime skies. Charleston County alone may see the crossing of 80 million birds, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
According to Cornell’s Birdcast website, almost 1.7 million birds crossed through Charleston County last night. Migration generally starts within an hour of sunset with most birds in flight two to three hours later.
“Miigrating birds regularly fly up to 10,000 feet above ground, although seasonal timing and weather conditions dramatically impact their distributions,” the site said.
Audubon South Carolina’s Matt Johnson told The Post and Courier that birders in the state have been seeing migrating shorebirds for the last month or so.
“But our songbirds that are making these long-distance journeys are just starting to really move in large volumes.”
- To learn more about South Carolina’s bird migration – and birds – visit Birdcast.org
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