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The most beautiful migratory birds in the world

How many do you know of?

By Lu DaPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Animals are a group of living things. They generally feed on organic matter, can feel, can move, can move autonomously, or can move things. Animals also have a variety of behaviors that can be seen as animal responses to stimuli. Behavior is the science of animal behavior. One of the more famous behavioral theories is the instinct theory proposed by Conrad Lorenz. Here is a detailed introduction to it, take a look!

Bird migration, as a natural instinctive response to survival in nature, is performed by many of its birds. It is a seasonal event that occurs at a specific time of the year. Do you know of any beautiful migratory birds?

1. Male birds

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This is a beautiful bird that belongs to the family Painted Murrieta but is now considered to be a flycatcher in the Eastern Hemisphere, Muscatel. This bird can grow up to 13-14 cm and they migrate from Alaska to Central Europe and Asia. It is a very shy bird because it often hides in the dense bushes of Alaska and it likes to eat insects, caterpillars, and berries.

2、Raptor

The raptor is one of the birds with the longest migratory route, with two annual migrations of 16,000 km, which take them from the far north of the Arctic to the southern tip of South America. This medium-sized shorebird prefers to breed in Canada, Europe, and northern Russia. It usually nests near water or inland, and adults are 23 to 26 cm long with a wingspan of 47-53 cm. Body weight varies between 100 and 200 grams, but they double their weight before migration.

3. Arctic Tern

These tiny birds perform extraordinary feats because they are the birds with the longest migration paths ever recorded. They are native to the Arctic side of the planet, but in the winter, they migrate to the other side of the planet, to the Antarctic. This species loses its feathers during the winter and then grows new ones. In addition, during this time, they are unable to fly until new feathers grow. Preferring to eat insects, small fish, worms, mollusks, and crustaceans, such as crayfish or shrimp, the young have gray or brown fluffy feathers.

4、Great red stork

Also called the Great Flamingo, found in the Indian subcontinent, this species has an amazing lifestyle and unlike many other birds, they are monogamous, meaning that they live with one partner for the rest of their lives. This bird can grow up to 145 cm in height, making them one of the tallest flamingos in the world. Initially, this species is white, but later, when they get older, the color turns pink.

5. Wild goose

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Also often referred to as geese, wild geese are the highest-flying migratory birds, often flying at altitudes of up to six miles above sea level. It takes about eight hours to fly over the Himalayas from Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent. One of the most beautiful migratory birds in the world, the Spotted Goose can migrate 1,000 miles in a single day. Up to 75 cm long and weighing about 1.87-3 kg, it prefers to eat plants and occasionally crustaceans and invertebrates. The birds are mainly found in Russia, northern India, and western China during the breeding season, and migrate to northern India and northern Myanmar in winter.

6、Cormorant

Also known as a fish eagle, it is a predator that lives on live fish and has a good diving ability, allowing it to dive up to three feet below the surface of the water. It lives near shallow waters and is the most widely distributed bird in the world, they depend mainly on fish for survival, however, it has been seen capturing several other animals such as birds, reptiles, and even crustaceans. They have been breeding off the coasts of North America, Northern Europe, Asia, and Australia, and their lifespan is about 10 years or more, with the oldest known North American fish eagle living to be 25 years old.

7、Great swans

A medium-sized bird known for its short legs and long, straight bill, the trumpeter swan flies around at 60 miles per hour over a distance of 4,200 miles, making it the fastest of all migratory birds. However, this species is listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, and its numbers have been declining rapidly due to habitat loss and destruction, these birds are also under threat of human hunting.

8. Cuckoo bird

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Migrating between Asia and Africa, they are known for their pleasant sound. Medium-sized birds can reach 12.6 to 14.1 inches in length, and during migration, they travel to Africa each September to avoid cold periods and food shortages in temperate winter regions of Europe and Asia. This bird species looks like an eagle in flight and makes a bulbous sound.

9. Egret

This long-billed, long-legged bird travels the British coast in winter, where it enjoys eating shellfish, marine snails, worms, and shrimp. They fly in flocks between East Asia, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and can fly up to 7,000 miles non-stop. This species has been listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and is protected. They migrate in flocks to the coasts of East Asia, Alaska, Australia, Africa, northwestern Europe, and New Zealand.

10. Hummingbird

Spending most of their time resting on tree branches, living alone, feeding on small insects and spiders, and able to fly at speeds of over 33 miles per hour, they are also the only bird that can fly backward. This bird migrates to the U.S. in the spring, crossing the Gulf of Mexico 500 miles in a 20-hour flight, and can fly without stopping in between.

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