Migration – Animals, Insects and Birds Facts & Worksheets

Migration is a seasonal movement of a complete animal population from one location to another. Some migrating animals are insects, fish, and birds.

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Migration is a seasonal movement of a complete animal population from one location to another. It is typically a reaction to changes in temperature, the availability of food, or the amount of daylight, and is often undertaken for breeding purposes. Some migrating animals are insects, fish, and birds.

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DEFINITION

• Migration is a movement to and from a particular region of all or part of an animal population. Migrating animals include many birds; hoofed animals, especially in East Africa and the tundra of the Arctic; bats; whales and porpoises; seals; and fish.
• Migration may be contrasted with emigration, which includes a change of location not necessarily accompanied by a return journey, or invasion or disturbance, involving the arrival and subsequent absence of large numbers of animals at unusual times and in unusual locations.

ANIMALS MIGRATION

• In some cases, to reproduce and ultimately die, animals with a fairly long lifespan return to their place of birth.
• In some cases where a species has a fairly brief lifespan and reproduces quickly, such as some invertebrates, migration may not occur in every generation.
• Mammals are a clear example of a group of animals called nomadic migrants. Mammals wander from place to place, usually with seasonal changes. They might end up where they started or go somewhere else completely.
• The American bison is an example of a nomadic migrant. Huge herds of bison roamed the Great Plains once, when the seasons changed.
• Animals manage to find their way across thousand of miles of land and sea.
• Each year the African savannah’s zebra and wildebeest herds migrate in a giant circle in a clockwise direction. They are in continual movement. This gigantic circle follows the rainy seasons when food is plentiful in certain places.

INSECTS MIGRATION

• Locusts and butterflies are insects best known for migrating. A great many other species are migrants, including some of the smallest.
• Desert locusts only breed when and where seasonal rains permit; hence the insects migrate from one breeding area to another as a consequence of climatic conditions.
• Broadly speaking, there are three forms of insect migration: some insects immigrate for breeding on one-way journeys, others migrate from a breeding area to a feeding area, and others migrate from breeding areas to hibernation.
• In the first type, adults with a lifespan reduced to one season immigrate from their breeding site, deposit their eggs, and die.
• In the second type, insects migrate from breeding to feeding grounds.
• The females produce mature ovaries in the feeding field, and then return to lay their eggs in the place they came from or a similar location.
• In the final type, insects travel from their breeding areas to places where they hibernate or estivate.
• In warm countries, coccinellids, a beetle family, and some moths leave the hot lowlands and migrate to the mountains.

BIRD MIGRATION

• Migration amongst birds is most evident. Most organisms need a healthy, abundant supply of food at frequent intervals due to their high metabolism rate.
• As a result, birds have built a highly efficient way to fly rapidly over long distances with a broad energy economy.
• Bird migration flights follow common routes, which are often very well established over long distances. Nevertheless, most bird migrants fly along large airways. A single migrant population can be spread across a large territory to create a broad front that is hundreds of miles in width.
• Birds often change their flight path according to the wind direction and force. Some routes cross oceans.
• In places such as the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean Sea, and the North Atlantic, the small passerine birds migrate 1,000 kilometers or more from the shore.
• Some birds fly very high For example, migratory passers-by were observed at altitudes as high as 4,000 meters.
• Pelicans, storks, birds of prey, swifts, swallows, and finches are diurnal (daytime) migrants.

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