Sentence examples for migrator from inspiring English sources
The word "migrator" is correct and usable in written English
Generally, the word "migrator" is used to describe someone or something that migrates or moves from one place to another, either to find new sources of food or shelter, or to escape harsh weather. For example, you could say, "The ducks were migrators, flying south for the winter."
noun
Any creature that migrates.
May spotted four saddlebag dragonflies — another migrator — hawking over goldenrod by the water.
The only other migrator spotted that day was a single monarch butterfly wobbling north like a lost drunk.
There have been several suggestions that certain long-range migrators are sensitive to the Earth's magnetic forces; sensitivity to auditory cues has also been suggested in some cases.
Thomson studied the island intensely over the course of several years, visiting it, poring over its literature, and contacting the Jamaican diaspora in Britain to get the migrators' viewpoint.
There are eels, among the world's champion migrators; a gorgonian called Iridogorgia, a geometrical fan of polyps that would have made Alexander Calder smile; and single-cell planktonic organisms like radiolarians and foraminifera (the latter have fantastically aesthetic shells).
But a study out of Britain shows that some moths and other high-fliers are active, not passive, migrators.
In the 1980s, the genetically marked late migrators made up about a third of the population.
Toothfish, which restaurant diners know better as Chilean sea bass, have a reputation as long-distance migrators, but the farthest north they had been found was 32 degrees south latitude, off Uruguay.
While pigeons are known to use sun compasses on homing flights, and some birds that migrate at night take directional cues from polarized light at twilight, there has been little evidence that daytime migrators make direct use of the sun.
