The greatest animal migrations on Earth
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Arctic tern · The Serengeti Great Migration · Humpback whale. (Updated Nov 2, 2025.)
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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Top 12
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Arctic tern
From the Arctic to Antarctica and back every year: the longest migration of any animal.
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The Serengeti Great Migration
More than a million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras.
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Humpback whale
More than 8,000 kilometres each way between feeding and breeding grounds.
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Monarch butterfly
A journey from Canada to Mexico completed over several generations.
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Salmon
Hundreds of kilometres upstream to return to where they were born.
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Leatherback sea turtle
One turtle swam 20,000 kilometres from Indonesia to Oregon.
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Reindeer and caribou
The longest migration of any land mammal.
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Great white shark
Thousands of kilometres powered by the fat in its liver.
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Christmas Island red crabs
Tens of millions of crabs head to the sea to spawn and roads are closed.
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The South African sardine run
Hundreds of millions of sardines heading north along the coast.
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The springbok treks
The historic migrations of southern Africa, which vanished after the 1800s.
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The daily plankton migration
Billions of organisms rise to the surface every night and sink back by day.
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