migratory

CEFRC1

/ˈmaɪ.ɡɹəˌtɔɹ.i/

adjective

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Examples

Many migratory birds come to this pond every year in winter.
Most migratory birds don't get why, once they've flown south, they don't just stay there.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

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In context

That one is a migratory species.
migratory habits; a migratory life
Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer.

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Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer.
2015 December 5, “Diel Vertical Dynamics of Gelatinous Zooplankton (Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Thaliacea) in a Subtropical Stratified Ecosystem (South Brazilian Bight)”, in PLOS ONE...
To cope with daily variation of environmental parameters, talitrids evolved a migratory behaviour, synchronized with tidal and nictemeral cycles, that enable them to locate the suitable patches of habitat on the shore (Pardi and Ercolini 1986).
2012, F.M. Faranda, Mediterranean Ecosystems: Structures and Processes, page 392

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Borrowed from Latin migrātōrius or migrate + -ory.