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Tom Langen

Tom Langen

Tom Langen is a professor of biology and has been a member of the biology and psychology departments at Clarkson University in New York since 1999. He teaches courses in the areas of animal behavior, ecology and conservation science.

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Migrating waterbirds over South Dakota’s Huron Wetland Management District on North America’s Central Flyway. (Photo by Sandra Uecker/USFWS/Flickr)

Scientists are using high-tech tools to study birds’ amazing migrations

By: - September 7, 2022

Although it still feels like beach weather across much of North America, billions of birds have started taking wing for one of nature’s great spectacles: fall migration. Birds fly south from the northern U.S. and Canada to wintering grounds in the southern U.S., Caribbean and Latin America, sometimes covering thousands of miles. Other birds leave […]