{"682162":{"#nid":"682162","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A \u0027river\u0027 of 10 million birds fly over Georgia skies nightly this week, migrating north","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis week could be a jackpot for birders in Georgia, as an estimated 10 million will fly every night over the state. When they aren\u0027t flying, they\u0027ll be on the ground feasting. In an 11Alive interview,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/benjamin%20freeman\u0022\u003EBenjamin Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses the \u201criver of migrating birds\u201d over Georgia skies:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022So most of these small birds, they\u0027re actually... flying at night. So when they\u0027re flying, they\u0027re spending so much energy they\u0027re heating up, so they like to fly when it\u0027s cool at night. And they\u0027re flying a couple thousand feet up. They\u0027re flying all night and then sometime in the morning they\u0027ll land and they\u0027ll spend the day looking for food. And then the next night, they\u0027ll often rise up again and keep flying north, so they\u0027re flying a couple 100 miles a night.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDiscover the full interview \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/tech\/science\/climate-science\/10-million-birds-fly-over-georgia-migration\/85-89f97e9d-5e78-46f0-8d56-6d476da9c217\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/10-million-birds-soar-across-georgia-nightly-heres-why\/BQPCTOS3RNF45AAGCELAK5GZSM\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis week could be a jackpot for birders in Georgia, as an estimated 10 million will fly every night over the state. When they aren\u0027t flying, they\u0027ll be on the ground feasting. In an 11Alive interview,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/benjamin%20freeman\u0022\u003EBenjamin Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, discusses the \u201criver of migrating birds\u201d over Georgia skies:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022So most of these small birds, they\u0027re actually... flying at night. So when they\u0027re flying, they\u0027re spending so much energy they\u0027re heating up, so they like to fly when it\u0027s cool at night. And they\u0027re flying a couple thousand feet up. They\u0027re flying all night and then sometime in the morning they\u0027ll land and they\u0027ll spend the day looking for food. And then the next night, they\u0027ll often rise up again and keep flying north, so they\u0027re flying a couple 100 miles a night.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDiscover the full interview \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/tech\/science\/climate-science\/10-million-birds-fly-over-georgia-migration\/85-89f97e9d-5e78-46f0-8d56-6d476da9c217\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA similar story also appeared at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/10-million-birds-soar-across-georgia-nightly-heres-why\/BQPCTOS3RNF45AAGCELAK5GZSM\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-05-01 16:01:58","changed_gmt":"2025-05-12 20:54:18","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11 Alive","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/tech\/science\/climate-science\/10-million-birds-fly-over-georgia-migration\/85-89f97e9d-5e78-46f0-8d56-6d476da9c217","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"4620","name":"bird"},{"id":"64251","name":"migration"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}