NASA-Funded Research Follows Bird Flight; Birds Follow Their Noses
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Lead researcher Federico De Pascalis of the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) holds a Mediterranean storm petrel. A. Benvenuti You might think birds skimming over the ocean wouldn’t seek wind unless it was pushing them in the right direction, but NASA-funded researchers have learned that storm petrels find stiff crosswinds worth the slowdown, in return for the clues and cues the gusts […]