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by im3w1l 2602 days ago
I wonder how good trees really are at attracting pollen. Intuitively it sounds like the forces should be small and the effect should be pretty marginal.
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Trees are 0.3 billion years old, so presumably they are not just good at it, but best at it.
And birds are about 160 million years old, but they can't fly as high or as fast as airplanes. Evolution doesn't plan ahead, so it easily gets stuck in local maxima.
Birds seem to fall out of the sky a lot less often. Could be the same is true for pollen. I don’t know if I agree with the guy, but I think he’s right to encourage more science time and money spent on it.
What? How could you think this is remotely true. It's international news when a commercial aircraft crashes. Birds, not so much.
Observer fallacy, though I’m kind of confused why I’ve never personally seen it happen. I’ve seem one window strike but never a ground strike.
If you want to observe birds there are some great nest cams all over the world.

The first days/weeks/months of flying is not perfect. A large predatory bird needs a lot of training and exercise. Wildlife rehabilitation is an other good source to hear about the work involved in getting wild birds to fly.

I don't know about that. A good number of them end up dead below my windows each year.