THAT’S IMPRESSIVE: Great frigate birds found able to fly for months at a time. “In charting their flight patterns, the team found that the birds travel incredible distances—sometimes covering up to 250 miles in a single day. They also found that the birds were able to take advantage of another type of updraft when need be, they would slip under a cumulus cloud and allow themselves to be very quickly pulled upward (up to 5 meters per second), without having to flap their wings a single time. Such sudden elevations could take them as high as 1,600 meters, where the air is extremely thin, and the temperature freezing. From there, they would glide down for hours, until reaching another updraft.”