Definition of "wintering" []

• Present participle of winter. (verb)

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• "The warbler's habitats are precarious due in part to tree-growth patterns in managed timberlands and to the conversion of forests to agricultural lands on Latin American wintering grounds."
• "The delta is also well known as a wintering and staging area for million of migratory birds."
• "Nothing remained to be done, therefore, but to relinquish the idea of wintering in"