flyway
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- noun
- /ˈflaɪˌweɪ/
- Specialized
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ruta migratoria
- Mallards, the most abundant duck in the Mississippi flyway, rely on the seeds of native plants and on corn left in fields after harvest.
- bird flyways
Examples
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Many species of birds rely on the flyway during their seasonal migrations.
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Projected changes in the quantity and quality of their breeding habitat are likely to change their abundances and distributions throughout continental flyways.
Academic text (2011) -
Over the past two centuries, this key habitat has dropped from 25 million acres to 4 million in the entire flyway.
Academic text (1993) -
Waterfowl make extensive use of the bay in their migrations along the Atlantic Flyway.
Academic text (2005) -
After harvest, they often flood their paddies, which then become habitat for migratory birds in the Pacific Flyway.
Academic text (2013) -
Migratory birds also depend on Rio Grande Valley habitat for lunch breaks as they travel the central flyway system between the Arctic and Central America.
Academic text (1999) -
Thereafter, I watched a green mallard wing its solitary way southward down the broad, invisible flyway.
Fiction book (1999) -
Scientists took special note of the Eastern Asian flyway used by birds nesting in Siberia to reach southeastern Asia for wintering.
Academic text (2005) -
The Pacific flyway is crucial for many migratory birds traveling along the West Coast.
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Wildlife experts are studying the East Coast flyway to better understand bird migration patterns.
Synonyms
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A path that birds or animals follow when they move between places each year
How Major
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word flyway is a simple combination of fly ('to move through the air') and way ('route' or 'road'). So think of it as a 'highway for birds' that migrating birds follow each year.