Why jet lag throws even foraging seabirds off course

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSeabirds coming home from foraging trips can be thrown off course by jet lag, researchers at Oxford say, after studying tracking data from Manx shearwaters.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwenty years of GPS data, one thousand forty-five birds, and three thousand six hundred eighty-eight foraging trips, the researchers report.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat is a very thorough bird file.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo it's time for the ceremony. This is BBN's Pet of the Day, and it's going to a wild bird.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI checked, and the rules allow it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe title: Most Accurate Sleepy Commuter in the North Atlantic. I'd like to say it in a pageant voice, but I'll hold it together.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorStat line: six hundred miles flown, three miles off, zero complaints to the front desk.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorZero?

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFine, the bird didn't file any. And here's the best part.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNPR says the biggest miss was seven degrees, about three miles on a six-hundred-mile trip.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'm sorry, but I need a moment.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA bird crossed hundreds of miles, with its body clock out of sync, and it was three miles short.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's a little off, and it's still beautiful. I'm getting emotional.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThree miles. I get lost walking to my own parking spot, and I have a map in my pocket.