Do migratory waterfowl sense tornadoes?

All critters sense the weather. But a tornado could be difficult to avoid.

I’d be interested to know how the ducks and geese made out in that area. Seems like you’d find a bunch of dead ones somewhere.

I always figured they can sense the weather changes before the storms come in and make hay south or north. Hurricane season definitely has implications sometimes but that is usually just in teal season.

At night I’d think they’d be pretty fricked.

During the day, I’d assume they can fly fast enough away from a storm to escape it? Not all certainly, but most?

I think they can sense pressure to a degree. But with a tornado for example I’m not sure they are going to get out of dodge until there’s an actual tornado and that would be too late? I mean a front that could start a tornado could be 100 miles wide or more I don’t think they are flying to avoid that.

20 years ago a huge storm came through AR on MLK weekend. Lots of hail but no tornados.

The hail killed many thousands of snow geese. I went fishing up on the White river. On the way home you could see fields covered in dead birds.

I had this same thought the other day since I know west Tennessee has a lot of waterfowl hunting. I would think a lot sense the front or big weather change and get away but I imagine some don't. With how fast a tornado comes and goes who knows, especially how big this one was.

I was hunting up in Hayti, MO this weekend when the storms rolled through. The tornado missed us about two miles to the south. We saw probably 30 dead snow geese on the highway headed back from our blind. No telling how many dead ones were out in the fields.