SATIRE. Fiction. No real deployment, agency or location is described below.
Autumn arrived on schedule. The geese left. The swallows left. The specimen at an unnamed intersection did not so much as tilt.
Researchers have now observed the same individual through four consecutive migration windows. Its behavior is unchanged: face the road, watch the road, log the road. Population trend for the species remains, unfortunately, thriving.
'Technically we can no longer call it migratory,' a field biologist noted. 'But nobody wants to be the one to update the field guide.'