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Bird Migration

Bird Migration. Migration is the seasonal movement of animals between geographically separate places. Painted Bunting on breeding grounds in Texas.

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Bird Migration

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  1. Bird Migration

  2. Migration is the seasonal movement of animals between geographically separate places Painted Bunting on breeding grounds in Texas

  3. Migratory birds of the western hemisphere breed in the United States and Canada but winter in México, the caribbean islands, and Central and South America

  4. Birds that breed in the United States and Canada but winter in México, the caribbean islands, and Central and South America are called Neotropical migratory birds

  5. Neotropical Migratory Songbirds Birds (left to right, top to bottom) Dickcissel, Orchard Oriole, Painted Bunting, Eastern Kingbird, Common Yellowthroat, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Rufous Hummingbird, Prothonotary Warbler, Indigo Bunting

  6. Neotropical Migratory Birds • nearly three fourths of North American birds migrate • wood warblers are the largest group of Neotropical migratory birds • the Golden-cheeked Warbler is a wood warbler

  7. Golden-cheeked Warbler (GCWA) breeding and wintering grounds

  8. Golden-cheeked Warbler breeding and wintering grounds and migration route

  9. Why do birds migrate?

  10. Birds migrate to areas where food is more abundant

  11. Birds like the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher have less competition for nesting places in the United States and Canada

  12. Birds migrate to find a milder climate and longer days for hunting food

  13. Do birds have flyways or highways? Upper Texas Coast Along the Central Flyway

  14. Pacific FlywayCentral FlywayMississippi FlywayAtlantic Flyway Four major flyways of North America

  15. Do birds fly long distances across seawater?

  16. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds fly up to 600 miles non-stop across the Gulf of Mexico to reach their wintering grounds Baird’s Sandpipers fly over water several thousand miles from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America

  17. Do birds migrate during the night? Do birds migrate during the day?

  18. Strong swift fliers like pelicans, gulls, swallows, nighthawks and raptors all fly during the day

  19. Many shorebirds, flycatchers, sparrows, vireos, orioles, thrushes & warblers fly at night

  20. Birds navigate using the sun, stars, rivers, valleys, mountain ranges, coastlines and even the earth’s magnetic field

  21. Funding to develop these instructional resources was provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department contract #409330 and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Section 6 grant TX E-133-R Snow Geese and Pintails on wintering grounds on Texas coastPhotos by Pat and Nicole Merkord, Gil Eckrich, and USFWS

  22. Alignment Alignment is provided to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for English Language Arts and Reading, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies where applicable and color-coded for each grade level. Grade 3 (red) Grade 4 (blue) Grade 5 (green) Grade 6 (purple) English Language Arts & Reading student expectations: 3, 4(A,B); 1, 2(A,B), 13(B); 1, 2(A,B), 13(B); 1, 2(A,B), 12(B) Mathematics student expectations: N/A Science student expectations: 3(A), 9(A,C); 3(A); 3(A), 9(A); 3(A), 10(C), 12(E,F) Social studies student expectations: 4(A), 5(C,D), 17(C,E); 6(A), 7(C), 21(A-C), 22(A); 6(A), 7(B,D), 24(A-C), 25(A); 3(A-C), 4(D,F), 6(B), 21(A-C), 22(A) Funding to develop these instructional resources was provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department contract #409330 and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Section 6 grant TX E-133-R

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