Where Do Birds Go In A Hurricane?

When severe weather hits, humans flee or hunker down and hope for the best. But what about birds? Where do they go? And what happens to migratory birds?

Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean until that time, heads toward the Eastern Caribbean in this photograph, captured by a satellite on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (Credit: NOAA / public domain.)

As the southern United States faces a second record-breaking hurricane in less than two weeks, I’ve been asked many times: “…