What Animals Migrate In Autumn

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.

What animals migrate in autumn. Birds can fly very long distances. Across the world animals of all kinds migrate ranging from huge whales to tiny insects. They fatten themselves up in the spring and summer before entering a very deep sleep in the autumn.

Even rarer species like Yellow-browed Warbler are sometimes found amongst tit flocks in October and November. 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. About 50 species in all leave our shores each year on a substantial southward journey to spend the British winter in gentler climates.

In North America free-tailed bats migrate in huge numbers to hibernation sites in Texas and Mexico. When its cold we wrap ourselves up but. In autumn it flys south all the way to Antarctica.

Because temperatures begin to drop during the fall season these creatures begin to find more suitable conditions. For example the Arctic tern nests close to the North Pole in the summer. Scientists are still studying this.

Natures changes in autumn are a sad reminder of the cycle of life. Days are getting shorter leaves are turning brown and temperatures are dropping autumns here. 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.

There are some other methods of getting through the autumn. Monarch butterflies migrate 2950 miles in autumn 5900 miles round trip according to the Nature Education Knowledge Project. When hedgehogs are born there can be up to seven babies in a single litter their coat of spines are soft and short.