How animals birds manage in hurricanes? | Notes and queries

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After Harvey, Irma and now Maria, I wonder how wild animals and birds manage in hurricanes? Do they “migrate” temporarily at the first signs of the impending storm or have other ways of surviving? Or do they simply perish in huge numbers?

Jo Macdonald, Dorset