Tag: bird migration

• Friday, February 17th 2012 - 18:49 UTC

  Songbird wheatear breeds in the Artic, flies across the Atlantic to spend winter in Africa

  

  The sharp-eyed northern wheatear is a songbird that weighs a mere 25 grams, about the same as two tablespoons of flour. With its spindly legs, its muted white, brown and black colour, who would think such a lightweight capable of heroic endurance?