What Animals Migrate In Autumn

About 50 species in all leave our shores each year on a substantial southward journey to spend the British winter in gentler climates.

What animals migrate in autumn. SUBSCRIBE httpbitlyCreators365SubThe migration of animals is a periodic displacement f. Many birds and insects migrate to warmer areas during the chillier months of fall. But at the same time many bird species such as geese swans and ducks migrate to Britain in autumn overwintering on our shores before leaving once more in spring.

Natures changes in autumn are a sad reminder of the cycle of life. When natural habitats are destroyed plants and animals suffer. What do animals do.

When the seasons change animals migrate to new homes. Birdwatching inland during the autumn can also produce some good birds with Pied Flycatchers waders and terns moving through. 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.

Its worth spending some time looking at tit flocks as these often harbour warblers like Blackcap and Chiffchaff. Here in the UK the most obvious migrants are birds. Birds and butterflies also are on the move in autumn.

In the UK pipistrelle bats migrate in autumn from the north to spend winter in the warmer south-west. Hedgehogs and bats are two examples of British hibernating animals. Some of Britains resident birds like partridges never move than a kilometre from their birthplace but more than 40 per cent of the worlds bird population are migrants.

In autumn it flys south all the way to Antarctica. Many see migration as part of a yearly cycle of changes a bird goes through. The cycle is controlled by changes in the amount of daylight and the weather.