Golden-Winged Warblers Can Predict When Tornados Will Strike

A recent study out of UC Berkeley has discover that tiny golden - winged warbler can predict impending storms — or rather , they can actually hear them approaching . scientist hope to use what they ’ve memorize to assist save lives ahead of violent weather .

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In April , a massive thunderstorm unleashed a serial of twister that tear through the central and southern United States . scientist say a peculiar event took place just two days before the storm : Flocks of songster fly the area en masse . Many golden - wing warblers had just finished a 1,500 - mile migration to Tennessee when they all of a sudden flew south on a 900 - mile exodus to Florida and Cuba . At that time , the violent storm was somewhere between 250 and 560 miles forth . The research worker said that the fowl somehow knew about the impending storm .

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The UC Berkeley team , head by population ecologist Henry Streby , were studying migrant patterns when they noticed a discrepancy in the data . The Atlantic explains :

Why , the researchers marvel , would these tiny birds go so far from their already - grueling migratory route ? Upon further inspection , the scientists found that the dates the birds broke with the pattern coincided with the beginning of the storm . In a newspaper cover today in the journal Current Biology , the squad suggests that the birds made their “ excreting migration ” because their keen sense of sense of hearing alerted them to the incoming natural disaster .

Brobdingnagian tornado - retch storm grow infrasound , or noise at absolute frequency below 20 hertz traveling for thousands of miles , according to Streby . That phone , which is too low for man to hear , travels at the same relative frequency that birds can detect .

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