How Do Birds Survive The Winter? By Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Bernd Heinrich

                                                                              Illustration by Megan Bishop

<<It seems logical that most birds flee the northern regions to overwinter somewhere warmer, such as the tropics. Their feat of leaving their homes, navigating and negotiating often stupendous distances twice a year, indicates their great necessity of avoiding the alternative—of staying and enduring howling snowstorms and subzero temperatures.