Topic
Migration
Movement on a schedule set by daylight, fat, and weather.
Animals
A concept is only useful against a specific animal. These are the ones this idea explains most directly.
- Alder flycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- American golden-ploverPluvialis dominica
- American redstartSetophaga ruticilla
- Baird's sandpiperCalidris bairdii
- Bank swallowRiparia riparia
- Bay-breasted warblerSetophaga castanea
- Black-bellied ploverPluvialis squatarola
- Black-billed cuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Black-chinned hummingbirdArchilochus alexandri
- Blackpoll warblerSetophaga striata
- Black ternChlidonias niger
- Blue-winged tealSpatula discors
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- Brazilian free-tailed batTadarida brasiliensis
- Broad-winged hawkButeo platypterus
- Buff-breasted sandpiperCalidris subruficollis
- Cape May warblerSetophaga tigrina
- Chimney swiftChaetura pelagica
- Clay-colored sparrowSpizella pallida
- Common nighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common ternSterna hirundo
- Connecticut warblerOporornis agilis
- Dark-eyed juncoJunco hyemalis
- Eastern red batLasiurus borealis
- Franklin's gullLeucophaeus pipixcan
- Gray-cheeked thrushCatharus minimus
- Greater white-fronted gooseAnser albifrons
- Greater yellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Great shearwaterArdenna gravis
- Green sea turtleChelonia mydas
- Hoary batLasiurus cinereus
- Indigo buntingPasserina cyanea
- Kemp's ridley sea turtleLepidochelys kempii
- Least sandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Leatherback sea turtleDermochelys coriacea
- Lesser black-backed gullLarus fuscus
- Lesser yellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Loggerhead sea turtleCaretta caretta
- Magnolia warblerSetophaga magnolia
- Manx shearwaterPuffinus puffinus
- Mississippi kiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Nashville warblerLeiothlypis ruficapilla
- North Atlantic right whaleEubalaena glacialis
- Northern pintailAnas acuta
- Northern waterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
- Olive-sided flycatcherContopus cooperi
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pectoral sandpiperCalidris melanotos
- Philadelphia vireoVireo philadelphicus
- Pine siskinSpinus pinus
- Piping ploverCharadrius melodus
- Purple finchHaemorhous purpureus
- Red-breasted nuthatchSitta canadensis
- Red-eyed vireoVireo olivaceus
- Red knotCalidris canutus
- Red-necked phalaropePhalaropus lobatus
- Rose-breasted grosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Ross's gooseAnser rossii
- Ruby-throated hummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Ruddy turnstoneArenaria interpres
- Rufous hummingbirdSelasphorus rufus
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Sandhill craneAntigone canadensis
- Scissor-tailed flycatcherTyrannus forficatus
- Semipalmated ploverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Semipalmated sandpiperCalidris pusilla
- Short-billed dowitcherLimnodromus griseus
- Silver-haired batLasionycteris noctivagans
- Snow gooseAnser caerulescens
- Solitary sandpiperTringa solitaria
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Spotted salamanderAmbystoma maculatum
- Stilt sandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Swainson's thrushCatharus ustulatus
- Swallow-tailed kiteElanoides forficatus
- Tennessee warblerLeiothlypis peregrina
- Tree swallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tundra swanCygnus columbianus
- Upland sandpiperBartramia longicauda
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Virginia railRallus limicola
- Western kingbirdTyrannus verticalis
- Western sandpiperCalidris mauri
- Western tanagerPiranga ludoviciana
- West Indian manateeTrichechus manatus
- WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- White-rumped sandpiperCalidris fuscicollis
- Wilson's storm-petrelOceanites oceanicus
- Wood thrushHylocichla mustelina
- Yellow-bellied flycatcherEmpidonax flaviventris
- Yellow-billed cuckooCoccyzus americanus