How do birds stay safe during a hurricane? They fly right into the middle of it.
Masses of birds can fly for miles within the eye of a hurricane, surrounded on all sides by powerful wind and thunderstorms yet sheltered from them within the middle of the storm.
Flocks of birds have been showing up in radar images of Hurricane Irma's eye, as the birds move with the storm up the west coast of Florida.
"The birds get into the end of the hurricane’s spiral and they move toward the eye of the hurricane," birding expert Kenn Kaufman said in a 2011 interview with Audubon. Read more...
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