A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found
57 by bryanrasmussen · · nationalgeographic.com · 25 comments
https://archive.is/V29Pq
The article seems to be free for me (with adblock?). Also, the link does not work.
I have uBlock installed, and I got an overlay wanting me to enter my email address to read the article.
I can't get past the captcha
You're using Cloudflare DNS, so archive.is refuses you. If you switch to a DNS server that forwards ECS it will work.
Is this what all those Flock cameras are for?
Flock cameras are for surveilling normal citizen and is used for suppressing freedom, quelling protests and to fulfill capitalist wildest dream to make America like China not for flocks of falcons.
It appeared to be a question about Flock cameras. It really was a double entendre where Flock could be taken to mean a flock of birds. Normally, explaining a joke removes all the humor.
What kind of frequencies do these falcon trackers use? Any datasheets available?
Let us build FalconNogs (like Satnogs) with SDRs!
The falcons were found congregating on an obscure German forum from the early 2000's.
Do falcons have no right to privacy?
But what do they have to hide?
They weren't "missing": GPS-tagged red-footed falcons revealed that they migrate to a tiny communal roost in central Angola (“Falcopolis”) each February–March.
There, saved you a click (disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline).
They were missing. Then they used GPS tags to locate them.
That’s why the article is titled “ A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found”.
Something was unknown, then we used sensors to solve the mystery. Wild, isn’t it?
I wish I could put gps tags on things after they go missing...
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According to the dictionary definition of "missing", they were not missing.
At best, our assumptions about where we expected to find them were wrong.
Is this actually clickbait? The title is in the form of many clickbait title, but I'd argue it delivers; the article is more interesting than the title.
I suggest readers spend the click and the five minutes.
Thank you for summarizing!
TIL about the Falcopolis in Angola.
> disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline
I don't think there's a single name brand from "before internet" that has survived without turning into a clickbait chaser of ad revenue above all else.
The term for this is "late stage capitalism".