The Great Animal Journeys

What this quiz asks

• Which bird is famous for the longest known yearly migration, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back?
• What mainly drives the great circular migration of wildebeest in East Africa?
• Monarch butterflies from eastern North America spend the winter clustered in mountain forests of which country?
• Most salmon return to spawn in the same river where they hatched.
• Many North Pacific humpback whales feed off Alaska in summer. Near which islands do they breed in winter?
• Each year millions of red crabs march from the forest to the sea to release their eggs on which island?
• Select ALL of these European birds that spend the winter in Africa, south of the Sahara.
• Tiny hummingbirds migrate by riding on the backs of geese.
• Do some dragonflies migrate across the open ocean?
• Green turtles that feed off the coast of Brazil swim over 2,000 km to lay their eggs on which tiny Atlantic island?
• Fish that live in the sea but swim up rivers to spawn, like salmon and shad, are known by which term?
• Order these migratory animals from lightest to heaviest typical adult weight.
• Which goose is famous for migrating over the Himalayas, with tracked birds flying above 7,000 metres?
• Which butterfly migrates between Europe and tropical Africa over several generations, crossing the Sahara?
• Select ALL of these birds that cross the Strait of Gibraltar in large numbers on migration.
• In 2022 a young bar-tailed godwit flew nonstop from Alaska to Tasmania in about 11 days. How far did it fly, in km?
• In 1822 a white stork shot in Germany carried proof that birds fly to Africa for the winter. What was it?
• What do scientists call the restless behaviour that caged migratory birds show when it is time to migrate?
• In the 1960s, experiments with which European songbird gave the first evidence that birds navigate with a magnetic compass?
• Each year up to 10 million straw-coloured fruit bats gather in Kasanka National Park, in which country?