Maybe Bird Brains Aren’t So Puny After All

From the LA Times’ all-about-animals blog, L.A. Unleashed, earlier today: Birds are migrating through Southern California:

“Call it our annual miracle.

“For the next couple of weeks at least, an array of visiting birds will touch down in Southern California. Some will stay the summer, but most are simply passing through, migrating thousands of miles from Central or South America where they spend the winters, to the boreal forests of Canada where they nest.…”

Wow!! The Western Tanager is gorgeous!!