non-breeding
Without producing offspring
Non-breeding describes animals not currently reproducing or in reproductive condition.
A non-breeding season is when a species doesn't mate.
Non-breeding plumage is the duller coloring birds display outside mating season.
Non-breeding pairs may bond socially without producing offspring.
The non-breeding population winters further south.
Regularly moving between regions
- winteringPassing the cold season
- overwinteringEnduring the cold months
- summeringWarm-season sojourning
- stagingPreparing for presentation
stopover · dispersal · nomadic · vagrant · passage · transient · molting · moulting
Not fully developed
- juvenileYoung person or animal
- subadultImmature but developing individual
- yearlingAnimal aged one
- fledglingInexperienced newcomer
second-year · unpaired · unmated · sterile · infertile · senescent · quiescent · dormant
Settling to sleep aloft
- flockingGathering in crowds
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- loafingPassing time idly
- raftingTraveling on buoyant platform
aggregation · congregation · gregarious · colonial · solitary · territorial · feeding · resting
migratory
Regularly moving between regions
- winteringPassing the cold season
- overwinteringEnduring the cold months
- summeringWarm-season sojourning
staging · stopover · dispersal · nomadic · vagrant · passage · transient · molting · moulting · non-migratory
immature
Not fully developed
fledgling · second-year · unpaired · unmated · sterile · infertile · senescent · quiescent · dormant · hormonal
roosting
Settling to sleep aloft
rafting · aggregation · congregation · gregarious · colonial · solitary · territorial · feeding · resting · preening
- wildlife statusendangered, extinct, vulnerable, threatened, rare species
- fertility statesfertile, infertile, sterile, barren, fecund
non-breedingbreeding
Reproductive cultivation of organisms
reproductive · mating · procreating · nesting · fertile
non-breedingbreeding season
Reproductive cycle timing
mating season · rutting season · spawning season · nesting season · breeding plumage
breed, breeding, bred, breeds, breeder, breeders, inbreeding, inbred, crossbreed