If you're a West Coast white-crowned sparrow flapping around New Jersey, you're probably lost. But a group of the tiny songbirds shipped to the East Coast found their way back from Newark to their winter home in Mexico.
Scientists caught songbirds in the midst of their migration and rerouted them a mere 2,200 miles to New Jersey onboard commercial jets in windowless pet compartments. Once they were released, adult birds found their way through parts of the country they'd never navigated before and arrived safely at their winter nesting grounds.
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