Can birds fly across the ocean

Question

Can birds fly across the ocean

Answer 1

Quite a few years ago there was a young homing pigeon that supposedly flew back to England from somewhere on the east coast. It was donated for a VDS auction  that they had years ago.  It supposedly showed up at it's home loft  a few months after it was shipped over here. I have never had the opportunity to verify if it happened or not. I don't remember but it was back in the mid to late 70's. I didn't keep up with the racing hobby much after that so I never heard if it was verified.

They have racing pigeon races in Europe that are turned loose a couple miles south of Paris. Something like 10K birds are released. They fly back to Ireland, England, Wales, norther Europe and as far south  as deep Spain all the way over to Italy. Some of these birds have to cross open waters like the English Channel. They show fishing boats in the Atlantic Ocean and Bearing Sea and they always have birds flying around those boats.

Answer 2

birds can fly anywhere...  i guess they could fly over an ocean, but they might get EXTREMELY tired.... LOL

Answer 3

many birds can fly for long distence but others can not  so its posible that they get halp way acros and then get tired and drond

Answer 4

h**l yes!

Arctic Terns have the longest migration route of any bird, so they fly over seas to get to their destinations.

Something I also find quite interesting is that puffins disappear out to sea once they've raised their chicks, no one is entirely sure where they go, so it's speculated they stay at sea for a few months.

There's too many birds to list, I'm sure, that fly across seas!

Answer 5

Depends on what kind of bird you're talking about. Some birds make very long migrations over great distances: take the Arctic Tern for example, they breed in the Arctic and winter in the Antarctic. They can easily cross an ocean, and many do so every year. And Wandering Albatrosses cross oceans all the time, in fact they very rarely leave the ocean. But with small birds it becomes a lot more iffy. It isn't really possible to give a definite answer because all birds are so different from each other, with just the vague category of "birds" any answer is true but no answer is true for *all* of them.