This essay asserts that seasonal and permanent migration may be connected, although there is
no direct evidence for this relationship in the current research literature. We draw circumstantial
and incomplete evidence for this proposition from findings of a recent survey of Canadian
snowbirds in Florida and a parallel study of Canadian-Americans using the 1980 census public
use sample migrant file. Other researchers are encouraged to settle the issue by including
appropriate items in surveys of snowbirds that would determine whether or not some of the
permanent migrants from the same origin serve as an unofficial reception committee for winter
visitors, providing for them a socially receptive place to "nest" for the season.
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