flyway

American  

[flahy-wey] / ˈflaɪˌweɪ /

noun

1. a route between breeding and wintering areas taken by concentrations of migrating birds.

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Etymology

Origin of flyway

First recorded in 1890–95; fly ² + way ¹

Example Sentences

The flyway spans more than 1,000 miles in the U.S., from Texas to North Dakota.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2023

How did a dirt parking lot in the San Gabriel Mountains become a major flyway for migrating birds?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Audubon has a project to protect and improve several hundred acres of wetlands on the sea’s eastern shore to attract birds on what is an important migratory flyway.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Experts say this increases the risk of disease outbreaks like the one that happened in 2020 along the Pacific flyway in California and Oregon, when 60,000 birds crowded into sparse wetlands perished from avian botulism.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2022

The wild duck rests there and the Canada goose, for this is a fringe of the central migratory flyway.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford