Songbird’s extreme desert migration mapped
Every year a small songbird, no heavier than a letter, crosses the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean and the Arabian Desert on its migration. New research from Lund University in Sweden now reveals how the tiny bird manages this arduous journey: by flying night after night - and doing nothing during the day. The thrush nightingale is a songbird is a long-distance traveller that arrives in Sweden in
https://www.science.lu.se/article/songbirds-extreme-desert-migration-mapped - 2026-05-05
