Sentences with phrase «annual migration»

Spanning from the semi-arid Karoo to the north of Darlington Dam, across the Zuurberg Mountains, through the Sundays River valley and south to the Sundays and Bushman's river mouths, Addo also incorporates a marine reserve that includes the second largest breeding colony of African penguins, annual migration of whales, and St Croix and Bird islands.

Scientists believe the road will eventually cripple the world's largest big animal migration — two million wildebeest, zebra, and Thomson's gazelle pass along this route in annual migration from Tanzania to Kenya — and devastate regional tourism.

Migratory tiang and other antelopes are vulnerable due to annual migration between Badingilo National Park and the Sudd.

In China, the festival also results in the largest annual migration of people in the world.

This round trip of 16,000 — 22,000 km (9,900 — 13,700 mi) is believed to be the longest annual migration of any mammal.

In the Spring, the waters around Ucluelet see as many as 20,000 grey whales in one of the greatest annual migration on the planet.

From June to November every year, humpback whales undertake a 10,000 km annual migration from Antarctica to have a babymoon holiday along the Queensland coast.

Gray Whales are noted for their 12,000 - mile annual migration from the Arctic Ocean to Mexico in the winter and their return north in the spring.

[58] This single ovulation event is believed to coincide with the species» annual migration patterns, when births can occur in warmer waters.

Stone estimates that before Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico was seeing -2 percent net annual migration: About 1 in every 50 people was leaving every year.

Morrison makes his own annual migration to the bay, where he continues the aerial surveys that he and Ross conducted in the 1980s.

In June a study of two annual migrations revealed that the flying part is relatively easy — the thrushes use half as much energy as they use to keep warm during stopovers.

Khichan, which lies in Rajasthan 100 kilometres from the Pakistani border, only became a major attraction for the cranes in the 1980s when local Jain priests began leaving them grain as they rested after gruelling annual migrations to India from Eurasia.

This day - use park offers panoramic views and is one of the coast's best points for spotting Gray Whales on their twice annual migration.

The California Gray Whale annual migration allows for whale watching beginning in December and lasting through March.

Warrnambool is surrounded by rivers, with a short drive bringing visitors to the Hopkins Falls for the amazing annual migration from the Coral Sea of short - finned eels who negotiate the falls in their millions.

At 45 feet long and 33 tons, these magnificent creatures can be seen off our coast between December and March during their epic annual migrations.

It migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly and makes one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal, traveling some 5,000 miles each way from its northern feeding grounds in Alaska to its breeding and calving grounds in the warm lagoons of Baja Mexico.

Read next: You can now watch the world's largest annual migration, during Chinese New Year, in real - time

The Hervey Bay marine park is the only known resting area on the whales» twelve thousand km annual migration.

More than 160,000 mainlanders vacation in the islands every year, and of late the annual migrations have included more and more sportsmen who find the islands offer action both ordinary and unusual.

Their annual migration from North America to Mexico has been called «one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in the world,» but the monarch butterfly is not only in decline — it's closer to extinction than previously thought, research shows.

LINCOLN — Each March, as spring approaches and birds begin their annual migration to New England breeding and nesting grounds, hundreds of people gather in their own seasonal rite, at the Mass Audubon Birders Meeting.

Gang of ants kill the island's iconic red land crabs by spraying them with formic acid; the crabs» annual migration, when millions of them scuttle to the sea, has been called one of the natural wonders of the world.

To record their sounds, scientists placed temporary tagging devices on eight humpback whale mothers and calves in the Exmouth Gulf off Western Australia, where the young whales spend months suckling to gain enough weight for their annual migrations to the Antarctic or Arctic.

The lost energy can approximate the amount a whale needs for its annual migration; to compensate, it would need to feed an extra 1 to 2 hours a day.

Who knew that the ostrich is one of the few birds with a mammal - like phallus, that warblers lay down their own weight in fat to fuel their annual migrations, or that every year the flightless and now extinct great auk paddled a round trip between sub-Arctic breeding grounds and Florida summer - feeding sites?

In order for the shorebirds known as red knots to survive their annual migration from the Southern Hemisphere to the species» Arctic breeding grounds, they rely on a series of site along the way to provide enough food for their stay and to fuel their onward flight.

In recent years, scientists have discovered that the tiny globe skimmer dragonfly (Pantala flavescens) steals the monarch's crown: These bold aviators travel over 11,000 miles during their annual migration.

The black - and - gold lepidopterans had just completed their annual migration from Canada and the eastern United States when the storm hit, pelting them with rain and snow and carpeting the ground with their frozen carcasses.

THE low hum rumbling across Kenya's Masai Mara isn't the sound of a distant herd of wildebeest on their annual migration — it's the trundling motor of an armoured robot called Beetlecam 2 as it sneaks up on a pride of feasting lions.

A year earlier, the team had tagged golden - winged warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera, pictured) with leg trackers in order to study their annual migrations to South America.

High - tech tracking reveals that the bird's annual migration is the longest in the animal kingdom — and almost twice as long as previously thought

Eastern North America is home to a small population of Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos), but despite their potential vulnerability to habitat loss and other threats, little information has been available on the patterns of their annual migration.

«This leads to asymmetric information flow through the herd and, interestingly, agrees with the traditional knowledge of the Inuit, which states that a subset of «lead» caribou effectively guide the path of the annual migration,» says Berdahl.

Climate change has scientists worried that birds» annual migration and reproduction will be thrown out of sync with the seasons.

The blackpoll warbler is capable of traveling up to 1,700 miles over the open ocean during its annual migration.

Jacques Perrin's spectacular documentary takes observation a step further as he literally seems to take flight with flocks of birds as they make their annual migration.

It is kind of an annual migration for me, to go to the show and see all the latest technical developments and gizmos that we can expect to hit the market in the next months.

Elsie, along with the majority of the domestic staff, lamented the annual migration to London for the Season, but could see its necessity.

More than 10,000 species of birds exist in the world, with about 10 percent of those species found in the U.S.. Although most birds fly when they need to travel any distance, some are flightless, and the mountain quail of California actually makes its annual migration on foot.

It's estimated that the annual migration of Chinese New Year revelers takes some 40 days to complete.

If it's an adrenaline rush you want, I am sure this is one experience you would want to check out... The Greatest Shoal on Earth, as it has been named, sees thousands of visitors flock to the KwaZulu Natal east coast to witness the annual migration of million...

On colder months, you could visit Maui and witness one of nature's incredible activities, the annual migration of humpback whales from cool Alaskan waters to the warm Hawaiian sea.

Who hasn't marveled at the annual migrations that take place in Africa?

May to September and sometimes even throughout October depending on the ocean temperatures and currents is a great time to be on the Great Barrier Reef to swim with the inquisitive Minke Whales and witness the giant Humpbacks on their annual migration with their calves.

Here you can see whales playing in the bay, or watch the gannets and dolphins following and feasting on the Sardine Run, an annual migration of huge shoals of sardines who sometimes come so close to the shore that they swim on to the beach.

The 1895 Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse is one of Australia's best land - based vantage points for spotting humpback and southern right whales on their annual migration.

The whales are starting to arrive on their annual migration and if you're lucky, you might even catch the great sardine run.