Forecasting Birds.

The article features the new forecasting system by the Canadian scientists to enable pilots to detour around flocks of birds. It states that Canada's Associate Committee on Bird Hazards to Aircraft in 1966 converted the Royal Canadian Air Force base into an electronic bird-watching station. It notes that the Polaroid-backed camera set up in front of a 50-mile-range radar scanner enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations.