fall migration
Seasonal southward travel
Fall migration is the seasonal movement of animals, especially birds, from breeding grounds to wintering areas as temperatures drop and food becomes scarce.
The term appears most often in birdwatching contexts: The fall migration brings warblers through our area in September.
Distinguished from spring migration, when animals return north to breed.
- autumnPost-summer cooling period
- cold frontIncoming cooler air mass
- heading southMoving toward the equator
- geesePlural of goose
- flywayEstablished bird migration path
southward · birds · flock · honking · V-formation · flock together · staging · stopover · rest stop · waterfowl · warblers · journey · instinct · restless · departure · sandhill · seasonal journey · monarch
- seasonal cyclesbloom, blooming, budding, dormancy, emergence
- migrationimmigrants, refugees, refugee, asylum seekers, displaced persons
- wildlife cyclesmating season, breeding season, rutting season, spawning season, nesting season
- spring awakeningfirst bloom, leaf out, green up, greening, emergence