What Animals Migrate In Autumn

Birdwatching inland during the autumn can also produce some good birds with Pied Flycatchers waders and terns moving through.

What animals migrate in autumn. Their migration journeys coincide with the changing of the seasons with Britains winter residents arriving during autumn from colder countries to the north and east. Other migratory creatures include whales and dolphins bats butterflies and fish. Hedgehogs and bats are two examples of British hibernating animals.

For example swallows migrate south once the weather begins to cool and their food sources dwindle. Birds can fly very long distances. As winter sets in Alaska most of the ocean animals migrate southwards to the warmer oceans prompting the grey whales to follow.

The main reason animals migrate is to escape adverse conditions by moving to areas in which conditions are more favourable for their own and their offsprings survival. Scientists are still studying this. Some species travel here for the winter and others arrive in spring and summer.

Around the month of October the gray whales in the Alaskan waters start the migration from the feeding ground to the Gulf of California and Baja peninsula. When its cold we wrap ourselves up but. In autumn it flys south all the way to Antarctica.

Berries that emerge on bushes provide important nutrients for migratory birds such as crows and geese as they pass through on their seasonal migration routes. Its worth spending some time looking at tit flocks as these often harbour warblers like Blackcap and Chiffchaff. For example the Arctic tern nests close to the North Pole in the summer.

Birds and butterflies also are on the move in autumn. When natural habitats are destroyed plants and animals suffer. Here in the UK the most obvious migrants are birds.