The great majority of households gain their livelihoods from subsistence farming and migrant labor; a large portion of the adult male workforce is employed in South African mines.
But he sends all his children away to seek their fortunes elsewhere, and on our coasts flights of migrant robins, whom either their parents, or the bad weather, have sent from Norway over the foam, arrive all through the autumn.
All sheep have retained this distinguishing habit of their ancestors, that they are by nature migratory, and share with nearly allmigrant animals a capacity for thought and organisation, and a knowledge of localities.
In the big migrant herds, bucks bring up the rear.
Here we are interested in whether a species is broadly resident or migrant in Kansas; 70 species are available for analysis.
First and last annual occurrences in the State formigrant species are indicated by both a range of dates and a median date.
The second, smaller peak is due to the inclusion of relatively large samples of three migrant species (Robin, Bank Swallow, and Barn Swallow).
Any migrant tends to arrive on breeding grounds relatively late, hence migrants ordinarily have higher index values than do residents.
The distribution of the season in time is almost identical with that for migrant species, reflecting the large number of migrant species in woodland habitats in Kansas.
Migrant Species Forty-six species, furnishing 2,522 records of breeding, are considered to be migrant in northeastern Kansas.
Temperate and tropical America; breeds in interior from California, Kansas, and Illinois to Alaska; irregular migrant on Atlantic coast from New Brunswick southward; winters south of United States to Chili.
A rare migrant on Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida.
Northern hemisphere; breeds from Labrador and northern British America north to Greenland and Alaska; winters apparently south of United States where it is known as a migrant chiefly off the coasts.
North America; breeds in the interior from Minnesota and British Columbia north to Alaska; winters from British Columbia and Virginia south to South America; only a migrant on northeast Atlantic coast to Labrador.
Mississippi Valley; breeds from northern Illinois and Nebraska north to Lake Winnipeg, east to Magdalen and Sable Islands; winters from Gulf southward; casual migrant on Atlantic coast.
The railroad outran the settler and "beckoned him on," just as the coureur de bois outran the slower-going migrant and beckoned him on to ever new frontiers.
The Common Egret is an uncommon migrant in Coahuila.
The Chipping Sparrow is a common spring and possibly fall migrant in Coahuila.
The Marsh Hawk is a commonmigrant and winter visitant in Coahuila.
In Coahuila this subspecies of the Swamp Sparrow has been recorded as a migrant or winter visitant.
The Black and White Warbler is an uncommon visitant or migrant in Coahuila.
The American Widgeon is a fairly common spring migrant in Coahuila.
This subspecies of the Orange-crowned Warbler is an uncommon migrant in Coahuila.
The Greater Yellowlegs is an uncommon spring and probably fall migrant in Coahuila.
The Hermit Warbler seems to be an uncommon spring and probably fallmigrant in Coahuila.
Coahuila as a migrant or winter visitant; however, I do not believe that representatives of noveboracensis normally are resident in Coahuila.
Wilson's Warbler is a common spring and probably fallmigrant in Coahuila.
The Field Sparrow is an uncommon spring and probably fallmigrant in Coahuila.
Our recent studies, however, have yielded twelve additional specimens and a number of sight records, all of which indicate that the species is a regular and sometimes common migrant in spring and fall.
Contrary to published accounts, the Long-billed Curlew is a fairly common migrant in certain parts of southern Louisiana.
Since Oberholser cited so few Louisiana records, it might be well to mention in this connection that the species is after all a fairly common fall migrant in southern Louisiana.
Miller has recently examined our large series of migrant Water-thrushes and identified three as good examples of limnaeus, and six as noveboracensis, neither one of which has been recorded previously from the state.
Certainly nowhere else in Europe has there been such constant shifting of a population, such risings and wanings of divers factors in history, such a coming and going of migrant mortals.
In those dark ages preceding the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Central Europe was seething with migrant nations dimly desirous of settling in some more favoured regions than the vast plains and dense forests whence they came.
Beside the ordinarie birds which keep constantly in the country many are discouerable both in winter & summer wch are of a migrant nature & exchange their seats according to the season.
The Avoset is another bird which formerly frequented the marshy districts of Norfolk at the breeding time, but which has now been lost to us except as a very rare passing migrant in the spring.
The Angles and Saxons were cradled among the mixed or mongrel peoples that had been dropped by the great migrant races in the southeastern corner of the northern sea--a population, says Marsh, of "very mixed and diversified blood.
The great majority of households gain their livelihoods from subsistence farming and migrant labor; a large portion of the adult male work force is employed in South African mines.
In short, the coastal plain would be emptied well before midnight of its migrant bird life, or at least that part of the population destined to migrate on any particular night in question.
Of particular interest would be studies comparing the activity of caged American migrant species and the nightly variations in the flight rates.
Studies on daily rhythm of caged migrantbirds (review of Palmgren article).
Though chiefly a migrant in the United States, yet a few winter in Florida.
It is a migrant in the northern parts of New England, and the same may be true of places situated in corresponding latitudes, while in the southern districts it remains through the entire year.
The Tufted Duck is a winter migrantto western Micronesia.
In the Marianas it is apparently an uncommon migrant but it is considered to be a regular visitor in the Palau Islands.
The bird is apparently an occasional migrant to western Micronesia.
Aside from a few migrant hawks and two kinds of resident owls, most of the avifauna feeds on vegetable and invertebrate foods.
It is apparently a less common migrant in the Marianas, although it has been recorded from Guam.
The character mentioned by Sharpe is very artificial and merely indicates the difference in the wing between a migrant of the temperate zone and a resident of the tropics.
The Bristle-thighed Curlew is a regular migrant through the Marshall Islands of eastern Micronesia.
This swallow is a winter migrant to western Micronesia from Asia.
It may also be considered as a regular migrant in western Micronesia, and probably reaches eastern Micronesia as an uncommon visitor, since it is occasionally recorded in the Hawaiian Islands.
It may be classed as a rare migrant to western Micronesia.
We have no other record of the Sora Rail on the barrier island, but in all probability it occurs as a migrant and winter visitant along margins of the laguna.
The number of migrant species doubtless will be greatly increased by field work at those times when birds migrate.
In this group too we have the Greenland wheatear, so closely allied to our familiar early migrant that, unless the bird can be measured, its identification is uncertain.
Few woods in our experience more abounded with Titmice than the birch and alder coppices along the Rivelin Valley, especially in autumn, and invariably mingled with them at that season were flights of migrant Goldcrests.
It is a spring migrant to the moors, and is not known to breed with certainty south of Wales.
They are the one spot where the migrant Pipits, Thrushes, and even Warblers can always be certain of a meal, to say nothing of an odd Woodcock now and then and the last lingering coveys of Partridges.
As most readers may know, the Ring-ouzel is a spring migrant to the British Islands, and the only migratory Thrush that comes to that area to rear its young.
We have upon many occasions, during the twenty years or so that we resided in Sheffield, met with these waves of migrant Goldcrests and Titmice in the birch and alder coppices of the Rivelin Valley.
Unfortunately, the Osprey is a summer migrant to our area, and the poor birds in travelling to and from their Highland haunts are exposed to much persecution.
The first-named of these is a summer migrant and a late one.
Unlike the Water Rail, however, it is a summer migrant to the British Islands.
Another March migrant is the Ring-ouzel, but these are venturesome birds ahead of their companions, and the usual date of this bird's arrival in the northern shires is April.
Vast numbers of migrant small birds follow such river-valleys as the Tees and the Humber, on their way into Yorkshire, Notts, and Derbyshire, by way of the Don and its tributary streams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "migrant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
