Why and How Birds Migrate?
How and why do birds migrate?
Why and How Birds Migrate?
Migration is a true wonder of nature. Birds fly, by the hundreds and thousands of miles, to find you the very best environment and habitat, food, breeding, and rearing of their children. If the conditions at the breeding sites are tough, it’s time for you to fly to the regions where the conditions are better.
There are a lot of different migration models. The majority of the birds migrate from northern breeding grounds to southern wintering areas. However, some of the birds breed in the southern parts of Africa and migrate to the north to spend the winter, or a horizontally to enjoy a milder sea climate in the winter months. Other species of birds spend the winter in the lowlands, and in the summer they go to the mountains.
Birds have a great morphology and physiology to fly faster and over longer distances. Often, their journey, be a very difficult period, during which they will go the extra mile. The Red Knot has one of the longest, a total of migration routes for each bird, and the crossing of 16,000-kilometre-two kilometers twice a year. It breeds in Siberia and winters along the west coast of Africa, and some even fall to the southern tip of the African continent.
It’s amazing how birds can move to the precision of a point. Exactly how migratory birds find their paths is not fully understood. It has been shown that they can move on to the sun during the day and the stars at night, in the Earth’s magnetic field. Some of the species are even able to detect polarized light, which many migratory birds use to navigate at night.
– Written By Shivani Thakkar
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