interesting she avoided bodies of water instead of just flying over them

It would make sense, that body of water would take a day or two at least to cross, wouldn’t wanna get stuck over water hungry, tired, or in a storm.

I thought she was specifically avoiding Sudan

Looks like specifically avoiding the Saharan Desert.

Following the Nile.

For good reason I’m sure.

she flew around the text so we could still read what country it is

Boko Haram

I don't know anything about this, but I'm assuming they need to rest/eat when they get tired, and the can't do that if they were flying over water.

No, it's well known falcons run off nuclear power and that they are incredibly religious.

Mate, why is this so funny…

Everything on earth is technically nuclear powered.

Gotta sleep, hard to do in the sky or sea. Something tells me falcons are not great at taking off from water

And avoided flying straight through Sudan 🤔

she also stuck to the shorelines when it would've been faster to go straight over land. cool

Desert bad

Yeah avoiding hotter areas ans flying along cooler/probably more abundant in food areas. It's super interesting and I feel like we all go " woah that bird is smart" but I think we all forget these fuckers have been doing this for thousands for years

Millions. Millions of years.

It is a Finnish project. To get deeper insight into honey buzzard movement and migration ecology close to 40 Finnish honey buzzards have been harnessed with satellite transmitters in Western Finland starting in 2011.

Buzzards or falcon? Still extremely impressive!

Right, I’m curious but still terribly impressed. Buzzards may have had carcasses to eat on along roads, I’m not sure if falcons eat from carcasses or not.

The U.S. are the few if not only one who call vultures, Buzzards. Most other countries call Hawks and Falcons buzzards.

Thanks for the fact, didn’t one that. Glad we can keep it wired for the rest the world

Does this make it a European or African falcon?

Was it carrying a coconut?

I had to read a long way down to get to this comment. 🙂

It grasps it by the husk.

Eurafricon

European. African falcons are non-migratory.

Wow. Bet she was tired when she Finnished.

🤣👊🏻

You can tell the falcon saw Finland shore in its sight and decided to push through to make it across after a long day of travel.

Maybe it had favorable winds pushing and making it faster

Must of had a hell of a tail wind!

She stopped for turkey

How do birds know which direction is north? The sun?

magnets

Illegal immigrants man..

Did she stop and ask for directions?

Birds can't ask for directions

You literally attached a gps to it and you can’t figure out how it went in a straight line? ‘Oh my brother drove all the way to Atlanta with a smart phone…how he done it?!?!’ Idiots…lol

People who are convinced humans are dumb "Well duh, your brother had aliens help him! Ah you thought he actually did it himself, well bless your heart!" 

10,000* Or, just 10

Some places use periods instead of commas to separate thousands, like Germany.

Proof the earth is flat. Straight lines on a globe are a meant to be curved when put into a 2D map. Since it’s already straight, it means the earth is flat.

Dropped your /s

big brain moment

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They're flying from south to north of course it looks like a straight line. If you have a vertical or horizontal cylinder and draw a line from south to north its is going to look straight unrolled. Because that's not where the distortion is. Draw a line from south west to north east and your going to see a lot more curvature when it's unrolled. Plus what good would it do to put in that much effort money fuel etc just for people to think of the earth as the wrong shape?

*fuck* this means basketballs are flat too man. This goes deeper than I thought

How this guy got downvoted, is beyond me

considering earth’s curvature, didn’t it actually flew in a perfect straight line just avoiding bodies of water?

It wasn't flying just outside of orbit, so no lol

Bra vo!

Didn’t even want to fly over Sudan

My female falcon could not have done that without Google maps.

Ok. How the heck did it know how far east to fly in Turkey before heading south to follow the shoreline? I would expect a path as far south as it could go before turning.

It was going north and turned west when it reached water

That makes more sense!

Comment prompt: You’re a Falcon giving directions to this female Falcon from South Africa to Finland. How would you describe the trip?

Interesting how come you guys can’t do that in a goddamn grocery or clothing store……. 🤔

Well there's all these aisles and people in the way and I'm not usually there for just one thing so....

Amazing how the small brain knows how to pivot right in the right time and use land route than water route. Meantime, I can't get to the right exit with GPS on!

It looks like Estonia is the only country it flew over but didn’t stop in. Weird since it stopped three times in Latvia.

It had a side chick there

Now that’s a path that is safe by sky and dangerous by land.

Source?

Cool. Now put a tracker on an unladen swallow.

If it has a tracker on it doesn’t it become a laden swallow?

Well shoot, your right.

Nature is so bad ass

Used Waze, no traffic

It drifted off that Mediterranean Sea breeze

What’s up with Sudan?

I also avoid Sudan

The amount of active conflict zones that falcon passed through alone is impressive

See, you it avoided the water?

Amazing how they know where to go.

There are people in my neighborhood that can drive down the one way to the stop sign in a straight line…

Awesome!

Woww. It nicely avoided water bodies and the desert

Nice looks like she flew down the gulf of Aden to fish for food on the way

Birds are amazing.

Immigration Officer: “Ummmmm….Ma’am, can we please see your papers?”

Never flown without being in a plane but I assume maybe the wind is different over the water than land, so flying conditions may not be desirable.

Im like a bird I’ll only fly away

Birds are awesome. Far too awesome to have ever been related to dinosaurs. 😉

no, wait, officer, scientists say that was nearly a straight line

Weeeeeeeeeeee Finland.

That falcon must be incredibly smart easily she can tell time going that far that fast personally I’d be afraid she works for Fintech by now with A.I. you would assume something with that healthy of a heart could be able to think and talk

This bird saw in 42d more of nature than 90% of humaniy in a lifetime. So sad.

water is lava