migratory
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Scientists have long known that homing pigeons and migratory birds use Earth's magnetic field as one of several tools for navigation.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Resident birds show more smarts than migratory ones, and city birds are sharper than their country brethren.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Humpback whales in the Southern Hemisphere live in well-defined pods and usually follow the same migratory routes every year, travelling between feeding areas in cold water and breeding grounds in the tropics.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
WHO officials say the outbreak is of particular concern because the Ituri Province — the region around Mongbwalu and Bunia — is considered a “commercial and migratory hub” where Uganda, Congo and South Sudan meet.
From MarketWatch • May 17, 2026
Once in those early years he’d wakened in a barren wood and lay listening to flocks of migratory birds overhead in that bitter dark.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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