Watch Animals Migrate with Journey North

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Watch Animals Migrate with Journey North

Written by Conor Gearin

This is BirdNote. 

Birds accomplish incredible feats of migration, but they’re not the only ones. Monarch butterflies travel between the U.S. and Mexico. Gray Whales split their time between Arctic feeding grounds and warmer waters where they raise their young. 

    [Gray Whale Spouting]

An organization called Journey North is studying all of these migrations and more. Journey North volunteers observe local animal migrations and report what they see online. If you’re interested in hummingbirds appearing in the neighborhood, Monarchs wafting gently past, or Gray Whales spouting offshore, you can contribute to the project.

    [Rufous Hummingbird calling]

And these efforts build on each other. If you watch for your local hummers, you’ll probably spot a Monarch or two as well. While you’re at it, you can keep track of signs of spring and fall in the plant community, too. 

    [Baltimore Oriole song]

Observing these seasonal changes can help make you a well-rounded community scientist, attuned to life’s ebbs and flows. And the info collected by Journey North helps build a picture of how wildlife is responding to changes in habitat and the climate.

    [Baltimore Oriole song]

Learn more about Journey North and other community science projects on our website, BirdNote.org. I’m Ariana Remmel.

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Managing Producer: Conor Gearin
Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Baltimore Oriole song ML242872891 recorded by Jay McGowan. Rufous Hummingbird ML73025891 recorded by Laura Gooch
BirdNote’s theme was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
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Narrator: Ariana Remmel

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