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    Altitudinal migration is a short-distance animal migration from lower altitudes to higher altitudes and back. Altitudinal migrants change their elevation...
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    southern ocean. Shorter migrations are common, while longer ones are not. The shorter migrations include altitudinal migrations on mountains, including...
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    significant implications for these natural habitats. Endemism, altitudinal migration, and relict populations are some of the natural phenomena to be...
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    Bird (section Migration)
    32% of passerines were partially migratory. Altitudinal migration is a form of short-distance migration in which birds spend the breeding season at higher...
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    (Psittacula himalayana) is the only psittacid species to exhibit altitudinal migration. The species' range extends from Pakistan, to Western Himalayas...
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    Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another. Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging...
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    each generation is estimated to be about 6.6 years. Parallels in altitudinal migration with the equally solitary mockingbird might be taken as indication...
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    bird has not gone extinct on smaller islands such as Molokaʻi. Altitudinal migration complicates population assessment. Although 'I'iwi are still relatively...
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    1093/condor/106.3.449. Bjork, Robin; Powell, George (1994). "Implications of altitudinal migration for conservation strategies to protect tropical biodiversity: a...
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    do not normally migrate other than for local movements, such as altitudinal migrations in the Himalayan species. The treecreepers are small woodland birds...
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    January 2008). "Can variation in risk of nest predation explain altitudinal migration in tropical birds?". Oecologia. 155 (2): 397–403. Bibcode:2008Oecol...
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  • also track altitudinal migration. However, this is technically hard to do, and the resolution seems to be too poor to track small altitudinal changes. 2H...
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    lowland rainforest, typical from Sarapiquí and Tortuguero, had an altitudinal migration to 500–600 m high, and flora of the highlands did not descent to...
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    species (such as quail) do migrate over considerable distances. Altitudinal migration is evidently quite common amongst montane species, and a few species...
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    largely resident, some show limited migratory behaviour, particularly altitudinal migration by those breeding at high altitudes moving to lower levels in winter...
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    are adapted for extreme cold, and some are adapted for long-distance migration. Reindeer vary greatly in size and color from the smallest, the Svalbard...
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    forests, and the subtropical Andes. Some highland species have altitudinal migrations. Manakins feed in the understory on small fruit (but often remarkably...
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    resident, territorial species, but has been known to undertake limited altitudinal migration or form flocks outside of the breeding season. Like other wagtails...
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    It primarily occurs at 500–3,000 m, but there appears to be some altitudinal migration with birds observed at lower elevations in winter. In Haiti, it...
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    farmland, parks and gardens. In New Zealand, T. sanctus vagans shows altitudinal migration, with post-breeding movement from higher altitudes to the coast...
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    Feng, Kaize; Peng, Kexin; Ran, Jianghong; Wu, Yongjie (2023). "Altitudinal migration behavior patterns of birds on the eastern slope of Mt. Gongga, China"...
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    woodland. It is mainly resident, but some populations take part in altitudinal migrations; breeding at altitudes of up to 1,900 m (6,200 ft) and spending...
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    America. Altitudinal migration Kuchis List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Albania Rarámuri Sarakatsani Seasonal human migration Yaylak Alachig...
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    organism to perform the behavior. For example, birds that engage in altitudinal migration might make "trial runs" lasting a few hours that would induce physiological...
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    winter to 1,900–2,400 m (rarely down to 75 m) altitude; similar altitudinal migration also occurs in Kazakhstan. It occupies open and sparse deciduous...
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    taking place on current forest migration based on recent information. These studies are generally directed to the altitudinal shifts in forest species on...
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    habitat it is usually found near water. The species undertakes some altitudinal migration, moving closer to sea level during the winter over some of its range...
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    tending to stay in the same area all year round, although some altitudinal migration, to lower elevations in the cooler winter months, occurs. Lewin's...
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    In addition to seasonal migration, N. nepalensis also exhibits altitudinal migration. Researchers found that N. nepalensis migrate to higher elevations...
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    understory and near fruiting trees. The species follows an annual altitudinal migration based on fruit availability, with most of the year being spent in...
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