Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica's less colorful icebergs.

In various places in the Northern Hemisphere, for example, Marine stickleback fish were scattered among landlocked lakes as the last Ice Age ended.

Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them scattered into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush.