Question: What are older migrating birds better at?
Answer: making corrections for wind drift

Question: How was the migrating of ospretys and honey buzzards tracked?
Answer: Satellite

Question: What do the birds do to successfully perform long distance migration?
Answer: recognize habitats and form mental maps

Question: What are examples of day migrating raptors?
Answer: ospreys and honey buzzards

Question: What two electromagnetic tools do birds use to find their destinations?
Answer: one that is entirely innate and another that relies on experience

Question: Where is the neural connection that is active during migration located?
Answer: between the eye and "Cluster N"

Question: What is Cluster N?
Answer: the part of the forebrain that is active during migrational orientation

Question: What is a young bird on it's first migration compared to?
Answer: a boy scout with a compass but no map

Question: How does the magnetic field help the bird at different latitudes?
Answer: let it know when it has reached its destination

Question: How can migrating birds lose their way?
Answer: flying past their destinations

Question: What is flying past their destinations called?
Answer: spring overshoot

Question: What location has become famous for bird overshooters?
Answer: Point Pelee National Park

Question: What other location is famous for spring overshoot?
Answer: Spurn in England

Question: Where do bird overshooters end up?
Answer: further north than intended

Question: What is it called when the genetic programing of young birds fail?
Answer: Reverse migration

Question: What is reverse migration?
Answer: where the genetic programming of young birds fails to work properly

Question: What does reverse migration lead to?
Answer: rarities turning up as vagrants thousands of kilometres out of range

Question: How far out of range can rarities get?
Answer: thousands of kilometres

Question: What is it called when birds from one region join birds from a different region?
Answer: abmigration

Question: What kind of bird is most likely to abmigrate?
Answer: waterfowl

Question: Who do abmigrating birds return with?
Answer: the new population

Question: What is a re-introduction scheme?
Answer: to teach a migration route to a flock of birds

Question: What did they use to teach birds a migration route?
Answer: microlight aircraft

Question: Which birds did they reintroduce to the US?
Answer: whooping cranes

Question: Which birds did they use as a trial run?
Answer: Canada geese

Question: What do birds need to change to meet the demands of migration?
Answer: their metabolism

Question: How often do birds molt?
Answer: usually once a year

Question: How do birds store energy?
Answer: through the accumulation of fat and the control of sleep

Question: Why do birds need to molt?
Answer: feathers of a bird suffer from wear-and-tear

Question: When do birds molt?
Answer: varies with some species

Question: How was migration developed?
Answer: independently

Question: What is highly labile?
Answer: Migration in birds

Question: What causes the behavioral adaptations necessary for migration?
Answer: genetic control

Question: What exists in nearly all avian lineages?
Answer: genetic framework for migratory behavior

Question: What percentage increase in flight distance will often be adaptive?
Answer: 20%

Question: What kind of bird flies less efficiently?
Answer: a bird that loads itself with food

Question: What type of bird show circuitous migratory routes?
Answer: Swainson's thrush

Question: Where do Swainson's thrush fly from?
Answer: far east across North America

Question: What is expected to have an effect on migration timing?
Answer: climatic changes

Question: What have studies shown regarding climate change?
Answer: timing changes in migration

Question: What else is climate change been shown to change?
Answer: breeding as well as population variations

Question: What other species does migration help?
Answer: ectoparasites such as ticks and lice

Question: What is a greater threat of disease transmission?
Answer: import of pet and domestic birds

Question: What has been studied as a mechanism of disease transmission?
Answer: bird migration

Question: What has a role in the dispersal of propagules of plants and plankton?
Answer: Birds

Question: What virus is maintained in birds without lethal effects?
Answer: West Nile Virus

Question: Who takes advantage of migrating birds?
Answer: Greater noctule bats

Question: What do greater noctule bats feed on?
Answer: nocturnal migrating passerines

Question: What do some birds of prey specialize on?
Answer: migrating waders

Question: What is the oldest way to study migration?
Answer: marking

Question: How have swans been marked?
Answer: a nick on the beak

Question: Who was scientific ringing pioneered by?
Answer: Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen

Question: Since when have swans been marked?
Answer: 1560

Question: What are other forms of studying migration?
Answer: radar and satellite tracking

Question: How are orientation behavior studies traditionally carried out?
Answer: the Emlen funnel

Question: What shape is the cage in the Emlen funnel?
Answer: circular

Question: What is studied quantitatively inside the cage?
Answer: The orientation behaviour

Question: What does the bird leave on the walls of the cage?
Answer: marks

Question: Where does the homing pigeon vanish?
Answer: on the horizon

Question: What threatens some bird species?
Answer: Hunting along migration routes

Question: What species declined due to hunting in Afghanistand and Asia?
Answer: Siberian cranes

Question: When were birds last seen in Keoladeo National Park?
Answer: 2002

Question: What can power lines, wind farms and oil rigs affect?
Answer: migratory birds

Question: What are other migration hazards?
Answer: pollution, storms, wildfires, and habitat destruction

Question: What is the name of the island on which Atlantic City is located?
Answer: Absecon Island

Question: In what year was Atlantic City incorporated?
Answer: 1854

Question: What are the names of the two townships that became part of Atlantic City when it was incorporated?
Answer: Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township

Question: How many other towns share a border with Atlantic City?
Answer: Absecon, Brigantine, Pleasantville, Ventnor City and West Atlantic City

Question: Which coast is Atlantic City located on?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: What is the name of the first commercial hotel built in Atlantic City?
Answer: The Belloe House

Question: In what year was the first commercial hotel built in Atlantic City?
Answer: 1853

Question: What are the names of the two avenues at which The Belloe House is located?
Answer: Massachusetts and Atlantic Avenue

Question: What are the two geographical features that Atlantic City is located between?
Answer: marshlands and islands

Question: What were the two potential aspects of Atlantic City that originally attracted developers? 
Answer: prime real estate and a potential resort town

Question: What other US city was linked to Atlantic City by the Camden and Atlantic Railroad train service?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: By 1874, how many passengers were coming to Atlantic City by rail each year?
Answer: 500,000

Question: What is the name of the lighthouse that is located on the Atlantic City coast?
Answer: Absecon Lighthouse

Question: Who is considered to be "Atlantic City's Godfather?"
Answer: Nelson Johnson

Question: In what year was the first boardwalk built in Atlantic City?
Answer: 1870

Question: Why was the first boardwalk built in Atlantic City?
Answer: to help hotel owners keep sand out of their lobbies

Question: What year was the Great Atlantic Hurricane?
Answer: 1944

Question: What was the historic length of the boardwalk before the Great Atlantic Hurricane?
Answer: about 7 miles