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At one point in the not-too-distant past, winter’s lack of birds completely flummoxed some of history’s greatest thinkers. Just a few hundred years ago philosophers posited that birds buried themselves in swamps, flew to the moon, or fully transformed into other animals during the cold months. Thanks to dedicated scientific observation, we now know that birds are neither interstellar travelers nor capable of full-body alchemy. Twice a year, across the globe, billions of birds take flight on (Earth-bound) migrations. From hundreds to thousands of miles in length, these seasonal journeys keep the beat of the natural world–heralding annual cycles and…