Weather radars give ‘bigger picture’ of bird and bat flights

Data can be used to map long-term changes in flight patterns

Australia’s weather radar networks could be used to track and analyse the flight patterns of migratory birds, bats and even insects, according to an ecologist at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory.

Rebecca Rogers, a PhD student with the school of environment, is researching how weather radars can be used to map long-term changes in the movement of magpie geese in northern Australia.