How far do blue wildebeest migrate across East Africa each year?

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Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: herd of gnu (wildebeests) — Animal social behavior Herd of gnu (wildebeests) in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) in the Serengeti region of Tanzania undertake extensive seasonal migrations in response to the succession of wet and dry seasons. During these annual movements, they travel more than 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles).1

These artiodactyls follow a pattern where herds spread outward across the plains during the rainy season to graze and concentrate around available water holes during the dry season.1