Migration: Quick Facts

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A herd of wildebeest, including calves, moves across a dusty savanna in Africa with scattered trees visible in the background.

A large flock of sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) stands and flies above a marshy wetland, with leafless trees visible in the misty background.

Several Pacific salmon leap up a rushing waterfall in Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska, as they swim upstream to spawn.

snow geese (Chen caerulescens)

A large herd of zebras and wildebeests cross a river during migration in the Masai Mara, Kenya, with grassy plains and distant hills in the background.

An American bison, or plains buffalo (Bison bison), stands in tall yellow grass with open plains in the background.

Side-by-side thematic maps of North America showing two major bird migration routes. The left map highlights the Mississippi Flyway in green, stretching from northern Canada and the Arctic through the central United States to the Gulf of Mexico. The right map highlights the Atlantic Flyway in purple, running along the eastern coast from northeastern Canada down to Florida and the Caribbean. Both maps use shaded regions and arrows to indicate the general paths and directions of migratory movement

Thematic map of North America showing proportions of breeding birds that migrate to the Neotropics, overlaid on vegetation zones including forest, tundra, grassland and scrub, desert, and ice sheets. Circular pie charts at various locations indicate the percentage of local bird populations and species that migrate, with red representing migrating individuals and green representing migrating species.

Pearl mullets' remarkable migration

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Observe an Eciton army ant colony migrating by night and forming a bivouac nest entirely out of themselves

Examine habits of lemmings and dangers they face during migration, such as predation, starvation, and accidents

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