Sentences with phrase «migrate southward»

Moose are indeed sensitive to warmer temperatures, so why would moose migrate southward to a warmer region that was also experiencing rapid «global warming».

Each winter bearded seals in the Pacific sector migrate southward as winter ice prevents access to their favored feeding grounds.

We have learnt in school that, in autumn, geese migrate southward from the ice - cold North and pass through Denmark on their way to wintering sites in, among other countries, the Netherlands and Belgium.

It is, however, unclear if Canada's banks — collectively the country's largest companies — could reverse the tide of expertise migrating southward on their own.

In other words, the founders of the Hebrew race to which Israel belonged were nomads of Syrian extraction, who migrated southward to Egypt.

Paige and his colleagues found that when glaciers rolled through the American Midwest some 18,000 years ago, the eastern chipmunk stayed put rather than migrating southward to warmer areas.

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After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

The work used upward - facing radar systems and recorded insects flying between 150 meters and 1200 meters high, documenting thousands of mass migrations northward in spring and southward in fall, suggesting the insects know when and in what direction to migrate and pick favorable winds to do so.

Unable to prevent an estimated $ 5 million to $ 10 million worth of bird damage each fall to a sunflower crop which fetches between $ 330 million and $ 500 million per year, Wildlife Services staff theorized in 1994 that they might accomplish more by poisoning the birds as they migrate north each spring, so that fewer would join the fall migrations southward.

In addition, Orff failed to mention that moose have been migrating from New Hampshire southward and thriving where climates averaged 4 °F to 6 °F warmer and winters are much milder.