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Fri 02 Feb 2011Radar use sparks new science
US SCIENCE CONFERENCE: A weather radar system able to count the number of raindrops in a storm cloud is being used to track bats, birds and even insects flying through the night skies. Some of the systems are sensitive enough to pick up a bumblebee in flight 60km away.
The use of radar to track animals in flight has sparked the creation of a new science, "aeroecology", and a session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington DC heard all about it. Aeroecology was little more than two years old, said Prof Thomas Kunz of Boston University.
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