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From the first bird-tracking study to technology 100 years later, scientists finally know where black-crowned night herons travel.

Early this morning, wild, migratory black-crowned night herons were seen for the first time this year returning to their nesting colony near the Zoo's Bird House—their only rookery in Washington, D.C.

February Update As part of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's continuing research of the black-crowned night herons that breed at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, we deployed satellite transmitters on three adult herons in June 2016. Jackson: This bird left the Washington, D.C., area in early...