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Long-distance flights interfere with seabirds' internal clocks
Published Friday, October 30, 2026 · Updated October 30
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Key points are extracted by an AI model and may contain errors or omissions. Always check the original sources.- Research involving seabirds called Manx shearwaters found that crossing the Atlantic at speed can throw their internal clocks out of sync with local time, causing errors in the strategy they use to navigate their way home.
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- Channel News Asia
The study highlights that the mismatch between internal clocks and external time caused by longitudinal movements in birds is the same process that causes jet lag in humans.
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