What happens to birds during a hurricane?
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Generally, as with most animals, they can sense weather patterns and climate changes.  When something is out of the everyday pattern, their behavior changes.  As far as hurricanes: you usually see the birds leave waayyy before most of the people do.\n\nSo yeah, they fly away before it even hits land.
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well, it's carribean islandS and they're right where hurricanes usually strike...but there's different reasons...
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What kind of storm? A tornado of sufficient force can certainly blow you away - heck, powerful tornados can even pick up entire trucks. A hurricane might not quite pick you up and deposit you somewhere, but its strong winds can knock you off your feet, especially in the midst of all that rain and water from the storm surge.
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Hurricanes are what scientists call "strong Tropical Cyclones". They are formed when large areas of the ocean become heated, and the air pressure over that area drops. This causes thunderstorms and strong surface winds. Cyclones develop over tropical or sub-tropical waters (for example, in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa, or in the Pacific). As they travel long distances gathering energy from the ocean, they are likely to be classified as strong Tropical Cyclones. When the winds of a tropical storm reach 74 mph, then the storm is classified as a hurricane.\n\nMore information on how hurricanes happen can be found on this good site : http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/creation.html
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rising heat under that type of cloud causes thermal updraft which gives better lift to the bird
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Hurricanes are strong wind storms, which are cyclonic in nature. This means that they revolve around a central point, which is known as an ‘eye’. The eye is the calmest part in the storm, while the winds raging around the storm have reached a speed of 119 km an hour! The winds rotate in an anti-clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere, and in a clockwise direction in the southern hemisphere. \n\n\nHow are hurricanes formed? \n\nHurricanes are formed in tropical, ocean areas. The warm air above the ocean begins to rise, and as it rises, it condenses and forms clouds and rain droplets. The process of condensation always results in the release of heat. So when the heated air rises and releases heat during condensation, the surrounding air also becomes warm. This warm air rises further, and then gets blown away by the high altitude winds, and cold air is pushed down to the ocean. The cold air then becomes warm because of the warmth of the ocean, and rises up again and is blown away. In addition, converging winds over the ocean (winds that run into each other) also push the ocean air upwards. Since the ocean air is in any case rising when they are warmed, the converging winds make it rise even faster. Thus, due to these phenomena, the movement of air increasingly becomes more and more rapid. \n\n\nWhat are tornadoes? \n\nFar more violent than hurricanes are tornadoes. Winds surrounding tornadoes often reach speeds of 100 miles an hour, and have even reached speeds of 300 miles an hour. \n\n\nHow are tornadoes formed? \n\nTornadoes are usually formed from thunderstorms and can be defined as a violent column of air extending from the base of a thundercloud to the ground. To put it simply, thunderstorms that rage in the sky ‘drop’ what appears to be a rope, but is actually a gust of wind moving in a circular direction. When this ‘rope’ touches the ground, it wreaks havoc. \n\nTornadoes are formed in a similar manner as hurricanes. Warm, moist air rises up and condenses, releasing heat and forming a thundercloud and rain. (Tornadoes are thus often accompanied by rain, and can cause flooding.) This continuous rise of air upwards is called an ‘updraft’, and a low pressure area is created in the center. High pressure cold winds are then sucked inwards, and the colliding forces causes the thunderstorm to rage. \n\nThese clouds are often green in colour, and at times the sky too turns green – a phenomenon that scientists still don’t have an explanation for. Hurricanes and tornadoes are similar to the extent that they both have a cyclonic movement, which means that they rotate around an eye. A tornado’s movement, as we have seen, is far swifter and more centered. \n\n\nHow are tornadoes ranked? \n\nTornadoes are ranked on a six-tiered “Fujita Scale”. A rank of F0 means that the tornado is weak and has caused a minimal of damage, while a rank of F6 means that the tornado was severe and has caused many deaths and damage to property. The vortex of a tornado is a dangerous place to be because here is where there is maximum rain and hail.
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Yes, if that is the direction they are flying. If the wind changes direction though they don't change. So not ALL the time as the question implies.
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I've heard of attacks by mockingbirds and bluejays and have seen both of these birds swoop on other potential predators such as cats. They only do it when they feel their nest (with eggs or nestlings) is threatened. The solution is just to stay away from the nest.
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Actually this is true.  The Hurricane Hunters, an air wing of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration routinely flies P-3 Orion and C-130 Hercules Aircraft into the eyes of hurricanes to do weather observations.  They also commonly report seeing birds in the eyes of hurricanes.
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Wind and storm surge.
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i must imagine you are talking about vortices, like tornadoes, and hurricane eye walls, however it is a big misconception that the eye of the hurricane is a column, its eyewall is slanted, so it is bigger at the top than at the bottom, it gives you the illusion of being in a football stadium, that is way too huge.  And tornadoes are slightly like that, but mostly they are column like.  So in response to that Columns do rule, If you want to learn more about them you should become a meteorologist and do research on tornadoes and hurricanes, I am working on research on hurricane Katrina.
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Hurricanes cause more damage because they are larger and last longer. Twisters (tornadoes) cause devistation and destruction in a small area with little warning.
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A large storm pulls energy from as far around as it can reach. Therefore if the storm moving is pulling all the heat and moisture out of the air around it, then there is a void of mayhem, a calm, before the actual storm throws back all that was there to begin with.
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its a giant storm  like a hurricane thats been going on for a logn time bout size of earth i think
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If a butterfly flaps its wings then the air around it moves. that air bumps into more air, which bumps into more air which bumps into more air... the process goes on until it causes a chain of events that may cause a hurricane thousands of kilometres away.\nConsider now:\nA million butterflies flapping 2 million wings, causing so much air movement that the prediction of a hurricane becomes incredibly hard.\n\nThe chaos effect is to describe that us being merely human we can not even comprehend the results of a single action which no matter how small could have huge effects. however considering this there is nothing we can do to predict these effects because they work on mathematics and conditions that simply can not be held in a single equation.\n\n\nI recommend reading the 'Foundation' series by Isacc Assimov, it is a science fiction story of people trying to predict the future of the human race using mathematics.
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Well TweetyBird I have only experienced one hurricane and a handful of typhoons, as for the effects:\nThey uproot trees.\nBring down power cables and telephone lines.\nTear off roofs, and knock down fences.\nThey cause tidal waves (not tsunamis) that batter the coastline.\nShips are sunk, lighter buildings destroyed.\nThey cause floods.\nAfter a storm everything looks so clean all rubbish having been borne away by the wind.
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Hurricanes, it is truly amazing they way they form and have an eye and are just so powerful!