Migratory is an English word with synonyms like migrant or unsettled. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Migratory in a sentence
Migratory meaning
- Migrating.
- Roving; wandering; nomadic.
Using Migratory
- The main meaning on this page is: Migrating. | Roving; wandering; nomadic.
- Useful related words include: nonmigratory, migrant, unsettled.
- In the example corpus, migratory often appears in combinations such as: migratory birds, the migratory, of migratory.
Context around Migratory
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Migratory
- In this selection, "migratory" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fully, partly, wholly, birds, bird and heading stand out and add context to how "migratory" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the migratory behavior of, after a migratory bird adept and migratory birds. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "migratory" sits close to words such as badges, basins and bazaar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with migratory
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All shearwaters are migratory, heading south of the equator for winter. (11 words)
Every year the observatory tracks and captures birds during the migratory season in the fall. (15 words)
Basically any migratory bird is protected, regardless as to whether or not that's actually warranted. (16 words)
According to official sources, as many as 21 teams comprising 105 forest department officials have been engaged in the counting of both the domestic and migratory birds, which commenced from 6 am and would continue till 12 pm today. (39 words)
Several studies have shown that some species of birds change their migratory routes to avoid passing through wind turbines and "many die as a result of impacts", warns the head of the marine area of Ecologists in Action. (38 words)
The BAS suspects that migratory brown skuas from South America may have inadvertently brought the virus over to Bird Island, highlighting the risk that migration poses in spreading diseases across vast distances. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
With artificially created islands for shelter and breeding grounds to the migratory birds, the lake is home to more than 106 species of migratory and resident birds.
Some species, mostly in the genus Falco, are fully migratory, with some species summering in Eurasia and wintering entirely in Africa, other species may be partly migratory.
The whooper swan and tundra swan are wholly migratory, and the trumpeter swans are almost entirely migratory.
According to official sources, as many as 21 teams comprising 105 forest department officials have been engaged in the counting of both the domestic and migratory birds, which commenced from 6 am and would continue till 12 pm today.
All shearwaters are migratory, heading south of the equator for winter.
Basically any migratory bird is protected, regardless as to whether or not that's actually warranted.
Behavioral experiments with the migratory locust Locusta migratoria showed that cannibalism rates increased with the number of gregarious animals that were kept together in a cage.
Bird life abounds, including scarlet tanager, northern waterthrush, ovenbird, American loon, and many other migratory and resident species.
But despite decades of work, the truth is we don’t know enough about the migratory behavior of many bird species to target conservation efforts effectively.
But Halder denied that the water level has decreased to such an extent that it cannot attract migratory birds.
Every year the observatory tracks and captures birds during the migratory season in the fall.
Fairweather said this can even impact more deep seeded migratory trends if people are finding climate change is becoming an ongoing issue that is only getting worse each year.
Higher-tax states (see our third map) are also among the places losing population – sometimes with wealthier residents leading the migratory march.
Several studies have shown that some species of birds change their migratory routes to avoid passing through wind turbines and "many die as a result of impacts", warns the head of the marine area of Ecologists in Action.
Spurred by slumping striped bass reproduction in Maryland waters, the state Department of Natural Resources is moving to curtail fishing for the popular migratory species during its spawning run next spring.
The American Goldfinch is a migratory bird, spending the winter months in the southern United States and Mexico.
The BAS suspects that migratory brown skuas from South America may have inadvertently brought the virus over to Bird Island, highlighting the risk that migration poses in spreading diseases across vast distances.
The beginning of spring means the return of migratory birds in Ohio, including shorebirds, waterfowl, songbirds, hummingbirds and grassland birds.
The Madan Sara, named after a migratory bird adept at foraging food, work together and rely on public transport to move local produce between communities.
Those and other efforts, for example, helped boost local populations of Least Bell’s vireo, small migratory songbirds listed as endangered in the 1980s.
Phrases with migratory
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with migratory
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: