Bogong Moths
Bogong Moths belong to the Family Noctuidae and are well known in south-eastern Australia for their mass migration in spring. In some years, they have descended upon cities such as Sydney and Canberra in their thousands, causing disruption around ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Introduced by humans
Since the beginning of human migration, people will have been transporting organisms from one place to another. Sometimes this was done intentionally, at other times by accident. Before the advent of stricter quarantine laws, Europeans have ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
Susanne Akesson
Susanne Åkesson, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, in Sweden. She teaches evolutionary animal ecology and ornithology and does research in animal migration and navigation. She also does popular science ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
William Attaway
This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they ... [... more]
Random House |
Darryl Pinckney
This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they ... [... more]
Random House |
Karen Fisher
A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson's Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life... follows two characters of ... [... more]
Random House |
Nathan Irvin Huggins
This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of [... more]
Random House |
Fred Bodsworth
The Eskimo curlew, which once made its migration from Patagonia to the Arctic in flocks so dense that they darkened the sky, was brought to the verge of extinction by the wanton slaughter of game-hunters. Following the doomed search of a solitary ... [... more]
Random House |
Nicholas Lemann
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators ... [... more]
Random House |
Antoine O Flatharta
When the beautiful orange Monarch on her fall migration route from Canada to Mexico stops to rest at Wichita Falls, Texas, she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry. She tells him, "Maybe one day you'll break out of that shell, grow ... [... more]
Random House |
Caper White Butterfly
Caper White Butterfly is a distinctive black and white butterfly that belongs to the Family Pieridae and may be seen during its spring migration in eastern Australia. The Caper White Butterfly is a distinctive black and white butterfly that ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
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