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Massive bird migration taking place this week in Jackson, TN!
Massive bird migration taking place this week in Jackson, TN!
It's peak migration season in North America, which means that billions of birds are flying south across one of four flyways. But what are flyways, and how can we visualize them? To answer those questions, Audubon and partners created the Bird Migration Explorer, and Matt Forrest (@matt_forrest) walks us through it.
It's peak migration season in North America, which means that billions of birds are flying south across one of four flyways. But what are flyways, and how can we visualize them? To answer those questions, Audubon and partners created the Bird Migration Explorer, and Matt Forrest (@matt_forrest) walks us through it.
🐦 It’s World Migratory Bird Day! Migratory birds play a vital role in ecosystems, but climate change is threatening their habitats - 30% of breeding species are in decline. The 🇪🇺 #LIFEProject - LIFE4AquaticWarbler is restoring habitats across 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇱🇹Lithuania, 🇵🇱 Poland and 🇺🇦 Ukraine to protect one of Europe’s rarest songbirds. To support this effort, the #CopernicusEU Climate Change Service (C3S) provides ERA5 reanalysis data to understand how climate variations affect bird migration - helping inform policy makers, engage birdwatchers, and protect biodiversity. #WMBD2025 #EUSpace #worldmigratorybirdday
🐦 It’s World Migratory Bird Day! Migratory birds play a vital role in ecosystems, but climate change is threatening their habitats - 30% of breeding species are in decline. The 🇪🇺 #LIFEProject - LIFE4AquaticWarbler is restoring habitats across 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇱🇹Lithuania, 🇵🇱 Poland and 🇺🇦 Ukraine to protect one of Europe’s rarest songbirds. To support this effort, the #CopernicusEU Climate Change Service (C3S) provides ERA5 reanalysis data to understand how climate variations affect bird migration - helping inform policy makers, engage birdwatchers, and protect biodiversity. #WMBD2025 #EUSpace #worldmigratorybirdday
One year as a Long-tailed Jaeger. 🪶 This swift-flying seabird is extremely graceful and agile in flight. Of the three jaeger species, the Long-tail is the smallest and migrates farthest offshore, seldom coming within sight of land. Explore the movements of over 450 birds with the @audubonsociety Bird Migration Explorer desktop app. Link in bio. #audubon #audubonsociety #birds #bird #birding #science #ciencia #conservation #geography #geografia #map #mapping #gis #nature #natura
One year as a Long-tailed Jaeger. 🪶 This swift-flying seabird is extremely graceful and agile in flight. Of the three jaeger species, the Long-tail is the smallest and migrates farthest offshore, seldom coming within sight of land. Explore the movements of over 450 birds with the @audubonsociety Bird Migration Explorer desktop app. Link in bio. #audubon #audubonsociety #birds #bird #birding #science #ciencia #conservation #geography #geografia #map #mapping #gis #nature #natura
Semipalmated Sandpipers arrive at the Bay of Fundy already running out of time. Each one has about two weeks to double its body weight on a mud flat in Nova Scotia before attempting one of the longest nonstop overwater flights made by any animal its size. More than three thousand kilometers, four days, no land. The math that makes this possible was worked out in the mud. A small crustacean called Corophium lives below the surface of the Minas Basin in such density that a sandpiper can eat seventeen per minute. The birds track the tidal cycle around the clock, feeding in rotating flocks as the flat appears and disappears beneath the water. Shorebird migration routes converge on this one estuary because nowhere else offers what this one does. The nonstop bird migration that follows is not a dramatic choice. It is the only option. Open Atlantic, no rest stops, trade winds after the thirtieth parallel. What lands in South America is what survived the crossing. What draws you to bird behavior, the science of how it works, or the fact that it works at all? #shorebirds #birdmigration #birdsofinstagram #wildlifephotography #BayofFundy
Semipalmated Sandpipers arrive at the Bay of Fundy already running out of time. Each one has about two weeks to double its body weight on a mud flat in Nova Scotia before attempting one of the longest nonstop overwater flights made by any animal its size. More than three thousand kilometers, four days, no land. The math that makes this possible was worked out in the mud. A small crustacean called Corophium lives below the surface of the Minas Basin in such density that a sandpiper can eat seventeen per minute. The birds track the tidal cycle around the clock, feeding in rotating flocks as the flat appears and disappears beneath the water. Shorebird migration routes converge on this one estuary because nowhere else offers what this one does. The nonstop bird migration that follows is not a dramatic choice. It is the only option. Open Atlantic, no rest stops, trade winds after the thirtieth parallel. What lands in South America is what survived the crossing. What draws you to bird behavior, the science of how it works, or the fact that it works at all? #shorebirds #birdmigration #birdsofinstagram #wildlifephotography #BayofFundy
The lights go back on 💡 Spring Bird Migration wraps up
The lights go back on 💡 Spring Bird Migration wraps up
Bird migration is an amazing phenomenon in the natural world! 🤩🪶 #WorldMigratoryBirdDay 🪺 Not only does migration allow birds to access the resources they need, but it also benefits the ecosystem with seed dispersal, pollination, and pest control. 💡 Help birds out with these tips from our resident bird nerd, Ranger Tori. Next time you’re visiting a state park, pick up a bird list from the park rangers to learn which birds are permanent residents and which might be passing through on their migratory path.
Bird migration is an amazing phenomenon in the natural world! 🤩🪶 #WorldMigratoryBirdDay 🪺 Not only does migration allow birds to access the resources they need, but it also benefits the ecosystem with seed dispersal, pollination, and pest control. 💡 Help birds out with these tips from our resident bird nerd, Ranger Tori. Next time you’re visiting a state park, pick up a bird list from the park rangers to learn which birds are permanent residents and which might be passing through on their migratory path.
With the cold front coming in, it’ll be a big weekend for bird migration! Here’s what to expect. #birds #migration #birdmigration #coldfront #kctv
With the cold front coming in, it’ll be a big weekend for bird migration! Here’s what to expect. #birds #migration #birdmigration #coldfront #kctv
Begleitet die Reise einer Rauchschwalbe bis nach Südafrika. 🇿🇦 🐦‍⬛‍ Die Rauchschwalbe (Hirundo rustica) gehört zu den Vögeln, die spät in den Süden ziehen – erst gegen Ende September/Anfang Oktober machen sie sich auf den Weg. 🐦‍⬛‍ ‍Einige fliegen beeindruckende 12.000 Kilometer weit und legen dabei täglich etwa 300 Kilometer zurück. ‍🐦‍⬛‍ Während manche bis ins südafrikanische Winterquartier reisen, überwintern andere „nur“ in Nordafrika, Nigeria oder der Zentralafrikanischen Republik. ‍🐦‍⬛‍ Rekordhalter: Die Küstenseeschwalbe (Sterna paradisaea) fliegt am weitesten. Von den Brutgebieten in Grönland oder Alaska bis zur Antarktis legt sie über 20.000 Kilometer zurück. Mit dem Rückflug summiert sich ihre Reise auf bis zu 50.000 Kilometer im Jahr – buchstäblich einmal um die Welt. Hinweis: Die gezeigte Route ist natürlich nur eine von sehr vielen möglichen. So nehmen einige auch den direkten Weg über das Mittelmeer von Italien aus. Auch Routen über den Balkan und über den Libanon/Israel sind bereits dokumentiert worden. Quelle: Bird Migration Atlas. // schlägt seinem Chef direkt ein Winterquartier im Süden vor: das schreibende 🦘. © Getty Images / Ashley Cooper, xavierarnau, Ascent Xmedia, Robert Hollingworth, Steffen Schnur, gogoloji, Eyal Bartov, cameraguy, Gallo Images, Imazins, Stand Up for Nature, Leander Ward, John Downer Productions, John Downer Productions, Sandrine Hecq, Larry Grant, Raimund Linke, Gary Chalker © Adobe Stock / syoko, bullet_chained #TerraX #ZDF #TerraXTiere #Zugvögel #Bird #Birdmigration
Begleitet die Reise einer Rauchschwalbe bis nach Südafrika. 🇿🇦 🐦‍⬛‍ Die Rauchschwalbe (Hirundo rustica) gehört zu den Vögeln, die spät in den Süden ziehen – erst gegen Ende September/Anfang Oktober machen sie sich auf den Weg. 🐦‍⬛‍ ‍Einige fliegen beeindruckende 12.000 Kilometer weit und legen dabei täglich etwa 300 Kilometer zurück. ‍🐦‍⬛‍ Während manche bis ins südafrikanische Winterquartier reisen, überwintern andere „nur“ in Nordafrika, Nigeria oder der Zentralafrikanischen Republik. ‍🐦‍⬛‍ Rekordhalter: Die Küstenseeschwalbe (Sterna paradisaea) fliegt am weitesten. Von den Brutgebieten in Grönland oder Alaska bis zur Antarktis legt sie über 20.000 Kilometer zurück. Mit dem Rückflug summiert sich ihre Reise auf bis zu 50.000 Kilometer im Jahr – buchstäblich einmal um die Welt. Hinweis: Die gezeigte Route ist natürlich nur eine von sehr vielen möglichen. So nehmen einige auch den direkten Weg über das Mittelmeer von Italien aus. Auch Routen über den Balkan und über den Libanon/Israel sind bereits dokumentiert worden. Quelle: Bird Migration Atlas. // schlägt seinem Chef direkt ein Winterquartier im Süden vor: das schreibende 🦘. © Getty Images / Ashley Cooper, xavierarnau, Ascent Xmedia, Robert Hollingworth, Steffen Schnur, gogoloji, Eyal Bartov, cameraguy, Gallo Images, Imazins, Stand Up for Nature, Leander Ward, John Downer Productions, John Downer Productions, Sandrine Hecq, Larry Grant, Raimund Linke, Gary Chalker © Adobe Stock / syoko, bullet_chained #TerraX #ZDF #TerraXTiere #Zugvögel #Bird #Birdmigration
🔊 Sound UP for full immersion Witnessing (and hearing👂) a scene like the one featured on this Florida Wildlife Magazine Cover can be truly breathtaking! This 1963 cover features beautiful roseate spoonbills that Floridians have observed for many years. From eye-catching oystercatchers to peregrine falcons to white pelicans, there are countless feathered flocks that are passing through the state during this time of year, Fall migration. Florida’s Fall bird migration season peaks from September to November. Migratory birds join resident birds at stop over sites within the Atlantic Flyway and have been documented in Florida for decades. @America250FL Learn more about bird migration here using the link in our bio! #OldFlorida #FLHeritage
🔊 Sound UP for full immersion Witnessing (and hearing👂) a scene like the one featured on this Florida Wildlife Magazine Cover can be truly breathtaking! This 1963 cover features beautiful roseate spoonbills that Floridians have observed for many years. From eye-catching oystercatchers to peregrine falcons to white pelicans, there are countless feathered flocks that are passing through the state during this time of year, Fall migration. Florida’s Fall bird migration season peaks from September to November. Migratory birds join resident birds at stop over sites within the Atlantic Flyway and have been documented in Florida for decades. @America250FL Learn more about bird migration here using the link in our bio! #OldFlorida #FLHeritage
Welcome to Chhari Dhand, one of India's largest bird migration destinations. 🦩 Every year, thousands of birds from different parts of the world arrive here, turning these wetlands into a spectacular wildlife haven. Some species gather in such huge numbers that the landscape becomes a living canvas of wings. #ChhariDhand #KutchWildlife #BirdMigration #NatureReel #IncredibleIndia
Welcome to Chhari Dhand, one of India's largest bird migration destinations. 🦩 Every year, thousands of birds from different parts of the world arrive here, turning these wetlands into a spectacular wildlife haven. Some species gather in such huge numbers that the landscape becomes a living canvas of wings. #ChhariDhand #KutchWildlife #BirdMigration #NatureReel #IncredibleIndia
Bird migration is still going strong! 373 million birds are predicted to fly over the U.S. tonight - and it’s a dangerous journey. Up to 1 billion birds die from window strikes in the U.S. every year. Collisions spike during migration, when exhausted birds descend near buildings after being pulled off course by artificial light. When windows reflect sky or foliage, birds fly into them. But you can help! Find out how by clicking on the link in our bio. Birdcast Credit: Van Doren, B. M., and Horton, K. G. 2026. BirdCast, migration forecast map; May 12, 2026, 06:00 ET. University of Illinois, Purdue University, and Cornell Lab of Ornithology. birdcast.org. access: May 12, 2026. #FeatherWeatherForecast #Bird #SpringMigration #Birding #MDCDiscoverNature
Bird migration is still going strong! 373 million birds are predicted to fly over the U.S. tonight - and it’s a dangerous journey. Up to 1 billion birds die from window strikes in the U.S. every year. Collisions spike during migration, when exhausted birds descend near buildings after being pulled off course by artificial light. When windows reflect sky or foliage, birds fly into them. But you can help! Find out how by clicking on the link in our bio. Birdcast Credit: Van Doren, B. M., and Horton, K. G. 2026. BirdCast, migration forecast map; May 12, 2026, 06:00 ET. University of Illinois, Purdue University, and Cornell Lab of Ornithology. birdcast.org. access: May 12, 2026. #FeatherWeatherForecast #Bird #SpringMigration #Birding #MDCDiscoverNature
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