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Four species, four migrations, one map.

We're following monarch butterflies, raptors riding the coastal ridge, whales along blue corridors, and sea turtles on their ancient nesting rounds.

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About the species

Monarchs

A 3,000-mile migration on tissue-paper wings

Eastern monarchs funnel through Cape May each fall en route to oyamel fir forests in central Mexico.

Journey North · Monarch Watch

Raptors

Ridges, thermals, and the river of hawks

Broad-wings, Cooper's, sharp-shinned, kestrels and merlins — counted at watch sites along the Appalachians.

HMANA · HawkCount

Whales

Blue corridors — migrations the size of oceans

Humpbacks, grays, right whales, and orcas tracing ancient routes across shipping lanes and international borders.

WWF Blue Corridors · Happywhale

Turtles

Ancient mariners, satellite tags

Loggerheads, greens, leatherbacks, Kemp's ridleys — tracked via iNaturalist sightings and seaturtle.org.

iNaturalist · Sea Turtle Conservancy

Featured: Journey North

The gold standard for monarch migration

Journey North aggregates citizen-science monarch sightings across North America in real time, producing weekly migration maps each spring and fall. Essential reading when the funnel hits Cape May.

Open Journey North

On the whale beat

Thirty years of tracks, one map

WWF's Blue Corridors platform brings together decades of satellite-tracking data from researchers worldwide, visualizing the migration superhighways of nine whale species across ocean basins.

Open Blue Corridors

Key sites on the map

Cape May, NJ
Monarch superhighway + raptor bottleneck. RNN home base.

Hawk Mountain, PA
Keystone raptor watch site. 125k+ raptors counted each fall.

Stellwagen Bank, MA
Humpback and right whale feeding grounds, spring through fall.

Archie Carr NWR, FL
Most important loggerhead & green turtle nesting beach in the US.

Michoacán, Mexico
Monarch overwintering sanctuaries. Final destination.

What counts as a ping. Points are verified citizen-science sightings from iNaturalist — a photo, a time, a location. Most are wild encounters, which is how we learn the shape of a migration.

What counts as live. The feed refreshes every five minutes. For deeper migration context, see Journey North (monarchs) and WWF Blue Corridors (whales).

Sources: iNaturalist · Journey North · WWF Blue Corridors · seaturtle.org