Man what a beautiful bit if knowledge, reminds me a bit of the eel mystery. Thanks to the researchers doing this sort of work, and I hope their conservation efforts go well
To do your question justice would take a while but its quite an interesting story to google. The gist: We did not have confirmation of where NA/EU freshwater eels laid their eggs until 2022. No one has ever seen them reproduce. This mystery is also old: Aristotle wrote about it. They have been an enigma for a long period of human history despite being an important part of it!
Reading the article, makes me think that mined areas are good for conservation. When the Angolan area where they congregate is demined their numbers might start declining.
They weren't "missing": GPS-tagged red-footed falcons revealed that they migrate to a tiny communal roost in central Angola (“Falcopolis”) each February–March.
There, saved you a click (disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline).
Is this actually clickbait? The title is in the form of many clickbait title, but I'd argue it delivers; the article is more interesting than the title.
I suggest readers spend the click and the five minutes.
> disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline
I don't think there's a single name brand from "before internet" that has survived without turning into a clickbait chaser of ad revenue above all else.
Flock cameras are for surveilling normal citizen and is used for suppressing freedom, quelling protests and to fulfill capitalist wildest dream to make America like China not for flocks of falcons.
It appeared to be a question about Flock cameras. It really was a double entendre where Flock could be taken to mean a flock of birds. Normally, explaining a joke removes all the humor.
https://archive.is/V29Pq
The article seems to be free for me (with adblock?). Also, the link does not work.
The site has a client-side registration wall loaded by JavaScript to obscure the full text that is already loaded in your browser.
If scripts are turned off in your browser or if you press a reader mode button, those kinds of registration walls won't load.
I have uBlock installed, and I got an overlay wanting me to enter my email address to read the article.
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I can't get past the captcha
You're using Cloudflare DNS, so archive.is refuses you. If you switch to a DNS server that forwards ECS it will work.
Resume: A type of small kestrel migrates each year to some place in Africa, nobody knew where, until now.
Man what a beautiful bit if knowledge, reminds me a bit of the eel mystery. Thanks to the researchers doing this sort of work, and I hope their conservation efforts go well
What’s the eel mystery?
To do your question justice would take a while but its quite an interesting story to google. The gist: We did not have confirmation of where NA/EU freshwater eels laid their eggs until 2022. No one has ever seen them reproduce. This mystery is also old: Aristotle wrote about it. They have been an enigma for a long period of human history despite being an important part of it!
The falcons were found congregating on an obscure German forum from the early 2000's.
Reading the article, makes me think that mined areas are good for conservation. When the Angolan area where they congregate is demined their numbers might start declining.
What kind of frequencies do these falcon trackers use? Any datasheets available?
Let us build FalconNogs (like Satnogs) with SDRs!
They weren't "missing": GPS-tagged red-footed falcons revealed that they migrate to a tiny communal roost in central Angola (“Falcopolis”) each February–March.
There, saved you a click (disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline).
Is this actually clickbait? The title is in the form of many clickbait title, but I'd argue it delivers; the article is more interesting than the title.
I suggest readers spend the click and the five minutes.
It's written by Ed Yong, who is a national treasure.
Hell yes, you should read it.
They were missing. Then they used GPS tags to locate them.
That’s why the article is titled “ A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found”.
Something was unknown, then we used sensors to solve the mystery. Wild, isn’t it?
I wish I could put gps tags on things after they go missing...
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According to the dictionary definition of "missing", they were not missing.
At best, our assumptions about where we expected to find them were wrong.
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Thank you for summarizing! TIL about the Falcopolis in Angola.
> disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline
I don't think there's a single name brand from "before internet" that has survived without turning into a clickbait chaser of ad revenue above all else.
The term for this is "late stage capitalism".
Is this what all those Flock cameras are for?
Flock cameras are for surveilling normal citizen and is used for suppressing freedom, quelling protests and to fulfill capitalist wildest dream to make America like China not for flocks of falcons.
It appeared to be a question about Flock cameras. It really was a double entendre where Flock could be taken to mean a flock of birds. Normally, explaining a joke removes all the humor.
Do falcons have no right to privacy?
But what do they have to hide?