"avian migration" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used to refer to the seasonal movement of birds from one region to another for breeding, feeding, or climate-related reasons. Example: The study of avian migration patterns is crucial for understanding the effects of climate change on bird populations.
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We use STEM built with decision trees to adapt to a wide variety avian migration patterns without requiring a detailed understanding of the underlying dynamic local processes.
The only human behaviors directly implicated in West Nile's arrival in the Americas seem to be world travel and living close to avian migration routes -- less than sinister forces.
After making the longest (measured in body lengths) known avian migration, individuals from Alaskan populations face a short breeding season but the longest day-length seen by any hummingbird.
Second, they are a food source for a variety of birds, fish, and amphibians, and it is known that certain species of mosquitoes are an essential food resource during avian migration in the Arctic.
The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of Animal Ecology, is not the first to note the ties between climate change and avian migration.
And what about the penultimate paragraph, mysteriously about avian migrations, followed by the final, one-line one, consisting of "We live in a place that is not our own (Wallace Stevens)"?
Gwinner, E. Circannual clocks in avian reproduction and migration.
Due to the global spread of avian influenza, bird migration has been studied as a possible mechanism of disease transmission, but it has been found not to present a special risk; import of pet and domestic birds is a greater threat.
Pre-adult ticks can stay attached to avian hosts during migration, thereafter detaching at breeding or stopover sites, where mammalian hosts can potentially establish new foci (4 ).
Other factors could also have been at play, such as avian immunity, mosquito migration, human activity, and land use changes, which might have countered the effect of wetting and reduced its association with epidemic SLEV transmission to levels below significance.
