Fancy flight.
This summer, a flock flock
1. a group of one species of animal or bird which eats or travels or is kept together, e.g. flock of sheep, of wild geese.
2. wool or cotton particles or debris used as stuffing or packing. of pigeons will take to California's skies--to monitor air pollution.
In August, Beatriz da Costa The surname da Costa derives from the Portuguese word for coast. It may refer to: - Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717 – 1791), English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector
- Benjamin Mendes da Costa (1803-1868), English/Australian philanthropist
, an engineering professor at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Irvine, will release 20 pigeons fitted with tiny backpacks. Sensors in the packs will measure air pollutants pollutants
see environmental pollution. , such as nitrogen oxide--a gas that's released by cars and contributes to smog formation. Cameras attached to the packs will snap photos during the flight, and cell-phone devices will beam the pollution data--along with the birds' locations--back to da Costa.
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