The World

A Tornado of Birds

The equinox brings the fall migration, and in the eastern U.S., many birds stop in the marshes along the Connecticut River. This brings a spectacular natural phenomenon, as hundreds of thousands of tree swallows fly out at sundown, rise to the sky and the

Salt Marsh Diary writer Mark Seth Lender heads to the marshes of the Connecticut River to witness an extraordinary event: a funnel of migrating tree swallows.