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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been doing that for a decade

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah pretty sure flowers would have already had to have been there to be blooming. Not a lot of birds migrating to Antarctica spreading seeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WaxedWookie 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I think in this instance, European swallows seen more likely given the distance, but either way, we'd probably need to consider them laden swallows for the purpose of our calculations...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That made me curious and it looks like yes, birds do migrate there: https://polar-latitudes.com/wildlife/migratory-birds/