# The greatest animal migrations on Earth

Arctic terns flying pole to pole every year, more than a million wildebeest in the Serengeti, tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island: nature's most spectacular migrations. Which amazes you most?

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- Nov 2, 2025 · quotable_indore
- https://even.best/en/l/3648/the-greatest-animal-migrations-on-earth

## Top 12

1. **Arctic tern** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From the Arctic to Antarctica and back every year: the longest migration of any animal.
2. **The Serengeti Great Migration** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — More than a million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras.
3. **Humpback whale** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — More than 8,000 kilometres each way between feeding and breeding grounds.
4. **Monarch butterfly** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A journey from Canada to Mexico completed over several generations.
5. **Salmon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hundreds of kilometres upstream to return to where they were born.
6. **Leatherback sea turtle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One turtle swam 20,000 kilometres from Indonesia to Oregon.
7. **Reindeer and caribou** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The longest migration of any land mammal.
8. **Great white shark** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thousands of kilometres powered by the fat in its liver.
9. **Christmas Island red crabs** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tens of millions of crabs head to the sea to spawn and roads are closed.
10. **The South African sardine run** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hundreds of millions of sardines heading north along the coast.
11. **The springbok treks** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The historic migrations of southern Africa, which vanished after the 1800s.
12. **The daily plankton migration** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Billions of organisms rise to the surface every night and sink back by day.

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