Patagonia Norte | The Condor Sees a Different Map
The Andean condor's flight patterns in northern Patagonia have been GPS-tracked since 2019. The tracking data is public. A retired air traffic controller, reading the condor data as if it were flight paths, noticed that seven different condors, tracked independently across six years, all deviate from their standard thermal routes at precisely the same location — a valley at 1,800m elevation that no human ground survey has entered. The deviation is consistent: they circle it once, then leave. He published his observation in a birdwatching newsletter. You read it.
About Patagonia Norte | The Condor Sees a Different Map
The Andean condor's flight patterns in northern Patagonia have been GPS-tracked since 2019. The tracking data is public. A retired air traffic controller, reading the condor data as if it were flight paths, noticed that seven different condors, tracked independently across six years, all deviate from their standard thermal routes at precisely th...Read more