Animal Migrations

Reviews

"Animal life cycles, behaviour, and biodiversity are all covered in Animal Migrations, with detailed information, many photographs, a glossary and recommended further reading in awell-designed package. Animal Migrations offers a wealth of information, perfect for assignments, or for anyone wanting to learn more about the animal world."
Shayne Wardrop, Kids' Book Review, 9 August 2022

"This informative and attractively presented book provides snapshots of migrating animals from across the globe. The journeys are long, dangerous, and often arduous yet will surprise the reader with how complex and determined each species is to reach their destination."
Kathryn Beilby, Readplus, 1 August 2022

"This book, written by Diane Jackson Hill, offers a fascinating insight into what, where and why animals make those incredible migration journeys. Readers will learn many interesting facts, such as pigs’ sense of smell being 2,000 times more sensitive than humans. It features many amazing photos too."
Shiloh Kwok, Double Helix 58, September 2022

"Divided into sections on flying, walking and swimming migrations, beautiful photographs of creatures such as caribou, wildebeest, whales, penguins, bats, shearwaters, crabs and salmon are shown, and their travels explained. [...] This is a good introduction to this intriguing subject. The text is accurate but not too complicated and tinged with touches of humour. There are maps, a glossary, and an index along with a further reading section. Teachers Notes are available from the CSIRO website."
Lynne Babbage, CBCA Reading Time, 17 September 2022

"The photographs included are captivating, allowing the reader to see the animals in their various habitats navigating their way sometime to the other side of the world to breed or find food."
Vanessa Ryan Rendall, Educate Empower, 4 August 2022

Features

• An engaging introduction for kids to animal migrations and how they play out around the globe.
• Features exceptional and unusual animal migration journeys, by land, air and sea.
• Packed with fascinating facts, photos and fun illustrations.
• Shares the migration stories of a broad range of mammals, birds, insects, fish, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans and aquatic microorganisms.
• Explores the threats migrating animals face, and the different ways we can help.

Contents

Mysteries of animal migrations

Chapter 1: What is animal migration?
Chapter 2: Walking migrations
Chapter 3: Swimming migrations
Chapter 4: Flying migrations
Chapter 5: Navigation
Chapter 6: Rule breakers, riddles and research
Chapter 7: Animal migrations, food chains and pollination
Chapter 8: Animal migrations celebrated
Chapter 9: Warnings and way forward
Chapter 10: Helping hands

World map
Further reading and resources
Glossary
Index

Authors

Diane Jackson Hill is a retired primary school teacher who is passionate about connecting children to the beauty of our incredible world. She is also the author of Windcatcher: Migration of the Short-tailed Shearwater, which made the CBCA Awards Notables list and was awarded a Certificate of Commendation in The Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Awards.

For Teachers

We have created these Teacher Notes as a free PDF download to support the use of this book in the classroom.

Teacher Notes (433.95 KB)