non-migratingadj.

1869 G. P. Marsh Man & Nature 93 Severe winters are usually followed by a sensible diminution in the numbers of the non-migrating birds.

1892 Science 19 Aug. 106/1 The Tenebrionidae present a typical family of non-migrating beetles.

1925 Amer. Mercury July 344/2 It would be difficult to name a single non-migrating native who had become a national hero.

1978 Sci. Amer. Apr. 74/1 When a 3T3 cell comes into contact with..a nonmigrating cell, the sheetlike lamellipodium at the front end of the cell ceases its ruffling movement.

1992 A. Fisher Day Trips in Delmarva x. 139 In Maryland alone, the non-migrating population of Canada geese..was estimated at 10,000.