migration
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These slender, long-winged raptors make an epic annual migration to Africa in winter and return to Europe to nest over summer, often setting up home in agricultural fields.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
"These results suggest that uncompensable heat could increasingly drive internal displacement and transboundary climate migration, raising new policy and humanitarian challenges," the study warned.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
But a large-scale migration to China’s open-weight models, at least among large Western companies, seems unlikely even if they do remain cheaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Pointing out the perfect V formation, Ferguson would tell his players that each bird would take its turn to lead from the front as they embarked on a 4,000-mile migration in the winter.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Oksi peeled off at the top and joined the great North American bird migration.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Since the indexes are weighted by market cap, migrations prevent large companies from dramatically skewing the performance of indexes meant for smaller companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
According to the researchers, this suggests that ideas and cultural practices spread mostly through contact, trade, and social interaction rather than through large migrations of people.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
Fish species that undertake mammoth migrations through rivers, lakes and ponds are facing a combined threat from dams, pollution and overfishing preventing them from reaching their breeding grounds.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
But over hundreds of millennia, human migrations resulted in interbreeding, researchers say.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
These were not just hunting paths that followed game trails or routes that peoples could easily follow during seasonal migrations.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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