non-migratoryadj.

a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) 308 The peculiar habits of many of the non-migratory birds.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 7/3 The Committee have proceeded with the experiment of attempting the introduction into the river [sc. the Thames] of the huchen, the non-migratory salmon.

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 171 This occupation of territory [by birds] takes place in..the same way in migratory and non-migratory forms.

1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 186 That it is independent of species is apparent from comparison of examples such as the brown trout and sea trout, non-migratory and migratory forms respectively of the species, Salmo trutta.

1991 Connecticut Environment Mar. 15/2 The raptors which produce young earliest in Connecticut are the nonmigratory great horned owls.

1994 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 2 Jan. Out of cyclical, non-migratory agriculture grew the first permanent human settlements—and the next thing anybody knew, you had rush-hour gridlock at Wilshire and Westwood.