When Birds Migrated to the Moon | The MIT Press Reader

“There were many factors that led to the recognition that birds migrate to other continents rather than the moon, but one which is pretty astonishing came about in 1882 in Mecklenburg, Germany. Someone shot a white stork, and when it fell, they saw that the stork had survived a previous attempt on its life.”

Read the Article | The MIT Press Reader | Alice Gorman

Isn’t it amazing that what we see as a common knowledge today was a mystery only two hundred years ago. A bit about the term “arrow-stork” in Wikipedia “Pfeilstorch”

By Zoologische Sammlung der Universität Rostock - Zoologische Sammlung der Universität Rostock per OTRS, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch#/media/File:Rostocker_Pfeilstorch.jpg