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More than a billion birds migrated Wed. night, the highest number ever recorded by Birdcast website

More than a billion birds migrated Wed. night, the highest number ever recorded by Birdcast website

Update: 2025-10-09
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Wednesday night marked a new record: the highest number of birds ever recorded migrating in one night in the United States. Over a billion birds were in the skies, according to data recorded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Birdcast website.





Those migrating birds could also use our help to avoid injury, as Roxy Todd reports.





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More than a billion birds migrated Wed. night, the highest number ever recorded by Birdcast website

More than a billion birds migrated Wed. night, the highest number ever recorded by Birdcast website

Nick Gilmore