Sentence examples for migratory journeys from inspiring English sources

Petrels are highly philopatric and return from migratory journeys of thousands of kilometres to breed in the same burrow year after year.

They may be vanishing because of problems here, problems on their African wintering grounds, or problems on their 3,000-mile 3,000-milejourneys.

There may be two other drivers of decline: being hunted on their migratory journeys to and from Africa, especially in France and Spain; and the effects of a parasite, trichomonas, which is known to infect many of the birds.

They are the five cuckoos caught in East Anglia last summer and fitted with miniature satellite transmitters, enabling their migratory journeys back to Africa to be followed by scientists for the first time.

In like manner a multitude of little birds, robins and the like, which we are apt to think of as bad or unskilful flyers, turn out to be very good flyers indeed upon their migratory journeys, when all they have to do is to pursue an even course in high and relatively calm regions of the atmosphere, and also (as we may suppose) in carefully selected weather.

Instead, the birds either disperse or migrate to a discrete molting location before continuing their migratory journeys to their wintering grounds.

Whooping cranes following an ultralight on their migratory journey.

Many of these birds would have been undertaking their very first migratory journey, having only hatched a couple of months before.

Not only does it undertake the greatest migratory journey of any creature on the planet, it also looks more graceful than any bird has a right to.

What caused the accident, no one can say — the only witnesses are the sandhill cranes, half a million of them, who stop outside Kearney each year on their migratory journey.

These include respiratory infections from the cold, infected cuts from barbed wire, scabies from living in overcrowded tents, eye problems from exposure to tear gas, fractures and sprains from falls related to the migratory journey and post-traumatic stress and psychological disorders.