How Birds Predict Weather (2024)

I grew up in Chicago and witnessed a lot of dramatic weather there. During the summer of 2007, the day started out nice and sunny with puffy clouds, then suddenly all of the chimney swifts and swallows left the sky - dropping and blowing down almost like leaves in the Fall. A very strange sight. They took refuge in low lying bushes and shrubs. Less than half an hour later, the sky blackened, and a huge storm roared through that lasted well into the evening hours.

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For the last few years I have had a Robin fly into my sliding glass door off my deck. I assume it is the same one every year. It does not let me get close to it but does not fly away at first sight of me. It does this every spring and as the summer progresses will eventually go away.

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I have read about how low pressure that comes before s storm causes birds discomfort so the fly lower then they usually do I have also seen birds using tire tracks in the snow to scratch through to the ground and reach food

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Birds and other living creatures are probably confused about the weather and don't know how to act. Because of end time weather.

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I read that Black Billed and Yellow Billed Cuckoos were called rain Crows because their calling was suppost to mean it will Rain and LOONS WERE CALLED RAIN GOOSE BECUASE IT WAS THOUGHT THEIR CALLING MEANT RAIN and i once heard Western Meadowlark sing in the Rain(Holy Gene Kelly Batman)and i have seen Snowbirds(Oregon Juncos)appear when there is snow coming

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My husband and I observed what appeared to be thousands of robins on our southern Maryland property and on our neighbors' properties as well. The robins were on nearby paved streets, on the ground and in the grass, on power lines, and in all of the trees -- everywhere we looked, literally everywhere -- like they were gathering. It was autumn and overcast, but it didn't rain. The silence was almost deafening. Reminded us of Alfreda Hitchco*ck's "The Birds." We got in our car, went to the store, and returned home. They didn't scatter from starting the engine and moving the car, and they were still there 20 to 30 minutes later when we returned. This happened a second time a few years later, only there were not nearly as many birds. We've lived here for more than 20 years, in this area for better than 65 years, and we've never seen anything like this. What could this have been, and just how unusual is this?

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I own a pest & bird control company in Phoenix - goldshotexterminating.net - and we do a ton of pigeon proofing. Pigeons are really tough and about the only time I've seen a change in their behavior as far as the weather does is when we have lightening. They'll do their normal thing during rain, wind and the 100+ degree heat but will be a bit harder to find when the monsoons hit.

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ok I was outside one day and i saw flocks of ducks i mean their was about 100 ducks or more in the sky going one direction and told my dad to look up and he said that spring is on its way.
Is it true?

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