Subject: Re: Video footage of marbled murrelets at the nest
Date: Jan 13 08:55:57 1998
From: Jerry Tangren - tangren at wsu.edu




wings at olympus.net wrote:

> Now just how on earth did that little guy know where to go -
> first of all, from his nest, second of all from a different, totally
> foreign location??!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Janet Hardin
> Port Townsend, WA
> wings at olympus.net

Just a wild guess, but the ocean reflects a different color off the sky
than land does. I've heard that South Sea Islanders can navigate their
boats from island to island by observing the color of the sky.

--
Jerry Tangren <tangren at wsu.edu>