Are cuckoos and magpies migratory birds?

No

Migratory birds generally refer to birds that have migration habits and regularly travel between wintering and breeding grounds with seasonal changes. The groups are large and the time of arrival and departure is The locations are very regular, with fixed wintering sites, breeding grounds and migration sites.

Generally speaking, migratory birds are divided into winter migratory birds and summer migratory birds. The main characteristic of migratory birds is that they migrate along relatively stable routes in spring and autumn. There are about 1,300 species of birds in my country, including about 600 species of migratory birds, which are distributed throughout the country.

There are three major migration routes for migratory birds in China——

One is the western route, in the arid grassland zone. Migratory birds including Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai and other provinces mainly migrate southward along the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Sichuan and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau further south. Some migratory birds in Tibet fly to India to spend the winter.

The central route includes eastern Inner Mongolia, western North China and Shaanxi Province. Migratory birds mainly fly along the Taihang Mountains and Luliang Mountains, over the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountains to Sichuan and central and southern China to spend the winter.

Another very important route is the eastern seaboard. Migratory birds from Northeast and North China mainly fly to East and South China along this route, and some even fly to Southeast Asia and even further to Australia.