Sentences with phrase «mile long migration»
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Covering an area of approximately 8,500 square miles (22,000 square kilometers), Botswana's Okavango Delta is one end of the second - longest zebra migration on Earth, a 360 - mile (580 - kilometer) round trip to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans — the largest salt pan system on the planet.
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Norway's Svalbard archipelago hosts some 150 bird species, including the Arctic tern, which makes the longest migration of any animal (nearly 45,000 miles to the Antarctic and back).
The Porcupine herd of caribou (named for the Porcupine River) in Alaska travel 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) throughout the year from feeding ground to breeding ground — one of the longest overland migrations in the world.
This 8,000 - mile round trip is one of the longest migrations of any mammal.
Gray whales have the longest migration route of any mammal and some of these giants swim as much as 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) round - trip from their summer stay in BC and Alaskan waters to the warmer waters off the Mexican coast.
The humpback whale is known for making an annual migration of nearly 6,000 miles, one of the longest of any mammal.
Their migration patterns are among the longest of any mammal, spanning over 10,000 miles.
Their long migration of about 10,000 miles (16000 km) usually takes about 2 - 3 months.
Almost 2000 seals come here twice a year after completing the longest migration of any marine mammal (12,000 - 14,000 miles!).
Engaging in the longest migration of any mammal, the California gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) swims 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) each year, spending about one third of its life migrating from the cold, nutrient - rich waters of Alaska, to the warm, shallow lagoons of Baja California.
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.