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This makes nomadic species genuinely unpredictable for birdwatchers: a location that hosted large flocks one winter may see none for several years running, then an unexpected influx the next.",[10,45,47],{"id":46},"recognizing-nomadic-behavior","Recognizing nomadic behavior",[15,49,50],{},"A few practical signs distinguish nomadic movement from true migration. Numbers at a given site vary enormously between years rather than showing the fairly consistent year-to-year pattern typical of migratory arrivals. Movements can happen at unusual times of year, triggered by a food shortage rather than day length. And breeding itself can shift location year to year in the most extreme nomadic species, following wherever conditions are currently favorable rather than returning to a fixed breeding ground.",[15,52,53],{},"Seed- and fruit-eating northern species are disproportionately nomadic, since cone and berry crops are naturally boom-and-bust from year to year in a way that insect supply — the food base for most true long-distance migrants — is not.",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":57},"",2,[58,59],{"id":12,"depth":56,"text":13},{"id":46,"depth":56,"text":47},"\u002Fimages\u002Fslovar\u002Fkochuyushchie-ptitsy.png","Nomadic (irruptive) birds move irregularly and unpredictably between areas in response to fluctuating food supply, rather than following a fixed seasonal migration.","md",[64,67],{"q":65,"a":66},"What's the difference between a nomadic bird and a migratory one?","A migratory bird follows a predictable route on a predictable schedule every year — same departure window, same wintering region. 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