migratory

migratory
    adj 1: used of animals that move seasonally; "migratory birds"
           [ant: {nonmigratory}, {resident}]
    2: habitually moving from place to place especially in search of
       seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant
       life"; "migratory workers" [syn: {migrant}, {migratory}]
    

Migratory \Mi"gra*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. migratoire.]
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   1. Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or
      climate to another; as, migratory birds.
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   2. Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a
      migratory life.
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   {Migratory locust} (Zool.) See {Locust}.

   {Migratory thrush} (Zool.), the American robin. See {Robin}.
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35 Moby Thesaurus words for "migratory":
      circumforaneous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, errant,
      flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive,
      gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, landloping, meandering, migrant,
      migrational, mobile, nomad, nomadic, rambling, ranging, roaming,
      roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing,
      transient, transitory, transmigratory, vagabond, vagrant,
      wandering