Where do birds go at night? Where are they hiding when there is a storm and the weather is really bad?

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Where do birds go at night? Where are they hiding when there is a storm and the weather is really bad?

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Answer 1

The first part of your question has already been answered, so I’ll try to answer the second one: Where are birds hiding when there is a storm and the weather is really bad?

Birds, like many other large vertebrates, have a place where it rests during the night or where they lay and rest during the day, since being active during the whole day is something only humans do. Even pets and other domestic animals spend a great deal of the day resting. Animals, including birds, don’t have a special place to hide during storms so they just endure them. Here’s some videos of land animals enduring the rain:

* [urban bird under pouring rain](https://youtu.be/26RgA-kU-18)
* [elephant family enjoying a casual rain](https://youtu.be/Tciu0fHjbHQ)
* [monkeys covered under a tree’s canopy during a rainstorm](https://youtu.be/eRDcV9hkDg0)
* [lions casually walking around during a storm](https://youtu.be/L1ibu6eM2c0)

Animals just get wet and deal with it. If they can find shelter somewhere else, they’ll certainly do so but most of the times they just… endure it.

If the storm is particularly bad, like a hurricane, [some researchers have found that birds go to the eye of the storm and fly around inside of it until the hurricane recedes.](https://youtu.be/DNvJ4E3mw9Q)