Oh yeah, by then there will be way more stuff coming through! Things to watch for include raptors (day migrants) dropping down to roost, while songbirds (night migrants) may take off during totality. Cornell has birders set to make a set series of observations before, during, and after the eclipse.

You're welcome!

Historically, the National Research Council did bird migration research, but I don't think they have a public facing page about it.

That is not a question I can answer any better than you. I believe FLAP does, but I think they may pull data from various sites. flap.org/bird-migrati...

Mostly, we started because migrating birds get in the way of other things, like air defence and commercial travel, but then the research was made available for natural science and ornithology, too.

Sorry, we can't even use the threat of taxidermy. We're not that kind of Museum!

What if we're a museum? Can we still answer? If we had a magical new space, we would have ample, changeable display space, an accessible archival and storage space with multiple working areas suitable for seated and standing, an a space that could be adapted for programming and community use.

Yes, we do have actual radar equipment, and other neat stuff, and no, we don't turn it on. Look, do you want congealed eyeballs? No, we didn't think so.

Anyway, behold! Radar!

We probably won't post too often, because we're volunteer run and it takes time away from doing other stuff, like working in our archive, looking after our displays, trying to find the tape measure--no, the soft one-- and wondering what that weird electric doodad is and where did it come from?!