Bird migration. Computer artwork showing the annual migration routes taken by many migratory birds that travel from Europe (top) to Africa (bottom), w

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Bird migration. Computer artwork showing the annual migration routes taken by many migratory birds that travel from Europe (top) to Africa (bottom), where they spend the cooler months, and back again during the warmer months. They travel on three main routes: through the Straits of Gibraltar (left), the Italic peninsula (centre) and across the Bosphorus (right). This diagram shows two species specifically: barn swallows (Hirundo rustica, small) and great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo, large).

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Photo credit: © LUIS MONTANYA/MARTA MONTANYA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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