Every year, gray whales embark on one of nature’s most epic migration journeys. Here’s what we know about it, according to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patterns of animal migration -- Movement and migration in a changing world -- Beyond dispersal: the role of animal movement in modern agricultural landscapes -- Migration and flight strategies in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animal migration : a context for using new techniques and approaches / Keith A. Hobson and D. Ryan Norris -- An introduction to light stable isotopes for use in terrestrial animal migration studies / ...

With long legs and large wings, the white stork is a prominent star of the pageant that is animal migration. Flying from Europe towards Africa in autumn, and then back again in spring, birds can be ...

Millions of antelope migrate through the wetlands and grasslands of South Sudan every year in a global wildlife spectacle that outshines the more famous wildebeest and zebra migration of East Africa.