Migrating animals have for a long time been tracked by recapturing tagged individuals. More recently, radio-telemetry, which requires an observer to physically follow the tagged animal, has been used.

Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop flight ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Field biologists tend to be a patient lot, often resigned to long days and weeks in ...

West Africa correspondent Sam Mednick spent half a year fighting for access to cover South Sudan’s spring animal migration, and it paid off when AP was the only international team to gather ...

A recent groundbreaking study has revealed an astonishing natural event: terrestrial animals that managed to journey across the Pacific Ocean, covering an immense 8,000 kilometers, to settle on a new ...

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal ...

Do songbirds talk to each other during nocturnal migration, and how does this influence their migration? This is what a recent study published in Current Biology hopes to address as an international ...

All storks choose to migrate with conspecifics, but young storks rely more on social influences than adults do. With long legs and large wings, the white stork is a prominent star of the pageant that ...

Animal migration is the long distance movement of the species that usually happens seasonally. Birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, insects and reptiles around the world migrate. The reason behind it ...

New maps show the massive impact of fencing on the long-distance movements of one of Africa’s most iconic migratory wildlife ...

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