What Animals Migrate In The Winter
After readinglistening to a book on animals in winter the class sorts the animals into categories as a whole group on what they do in winter.
What animals migrate in the winter. During the summer these creatures live in trees while they migrate to caves for hibernation in the winter. During the winter months they migrate south to escape harsh cold. 1250 miles 2000km.
Animals adapt to the winter by hibernating. Other animals migrate too. Video that showed how the geese fly to the south in a V formation so they can find food.
They join resident starlings in huge circling whirling flocks at. Across the world animals of all kinds migrate ranging from huge whales to tiny insects. The majority of the 650 species of birds found in North America are migratory.
Some insects also migrate. Below is a list of animals that migrate traveling to avoid bad weather to find food or to reproduce. There are a few animals that migrate - the Monarch butterfly caribou moose wapiti elk and some species of bats.
About 18 of the 10000 species of birds in the world migrate due to changes in the weather seasons. To be counted as a true migration and not just a local dispersal or irruption the movement of the animals should be an annual or seasonal occurrence such as Northern Hemisphere birds migrating south for the winter. It also shows some amazing wint.
Or a major habitat change as part of their life such as young Atlantic salmon or sea lamprey leaving the river of their birth when they. But there are other reasons to migrate as we will see below. ANIMALS IN WINTER - some birds migrate to warmer places.