Part 3 — MIGRATION LISTS
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Dates of Arrival of “Summer Visitants” Near New York City
February 15 to 28 Purple Grackle Rusty Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Robin Winter Residents and Visitants
BIRDS SEEN IN MARCH
Winter Residents Leaving For The North Snowflake Northern Shrike Horned Lark Redpoll
Migrants Arriving From The South
Loon 4 species of Ducks
March 1 to 10 Purple Grackle Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Robin
March 10 to 20 Phœbe Meadowlark Cowbird Fox Sparrow Woodcock
March 20 to 31 Kingfisher Mourning Dove Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Wilson’s Snipe
BIRDS SEEN IN APRIL
Winter Residents Leaving For The North Junco Tree Sparrow Winter Wren Brown Creeper Red-breasted Nuthatch Golden-crowned Kinglet
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Migrants Arriving From The South
April 1 to 10 Great Blue Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Osprey Vesper Sparrow Field Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Tree Swallow Myrtle Warbler Hermit Thrush
April 10 to 20 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Barn Swallow Yellow Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Louisiana Water-thrush Ruby-crowned Kinglet Green Heron
April 20 to 30 Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Least Flycatcher Towhee Purple Martin Cliff Swallow Bank Swallow Rough-winged Swallow Black and White Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Brown Thrasher Spotted Sandpiper
BIRDS ARRIVING IN MAY
May 1 to 10 Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Nighthawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird Crested Flycatcher Kingbird Baltimore Oriole Bobolink Indigo Bunting Rose-breasted Grosbeak Scarlet Tanager Red-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo White-eyed Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Parula Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Chestnut-sided Warbler Hooded Warbler Yellow Warbler Maryland Yellow-throat Oven-bird Redstart House Wren Catbird Wood Thrush Veery
May 10 to 20 Wood Pewee White-crowned Sparrow Golden-winged Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-poll Warbler Wilson’s Warbler 93 Canadian Warbler Marsh Wrens Olive-backed Thrush Gray-cheeked Thrush Bicknell’s Thrush
SUMMER VISITORS THAT BREED FARTHER SOUTH AND ARE OCCASIONALLY SEEN NEAR NEW YORK
Red-bellied Woodpecker Summer Tanager Carolina Chickadee Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Mockingbird Numerous Water-birds that nest in the Antarctic regions visit our shores during the summer.
FALL MIGRATION
Summer Residents Leaving For The South
September 1 to 10 Orchard Oriole Rough-winged Swallow Worm-eating Warbler Blue-winged Warbler
September 10 to 20 Baltimore Oriole Purple Martin Yellow Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat
September 20 to 30 Green Heron Hummingbird Kingbird Crested Flycatcher Wood Pewee Rose-breasted Grosbeak Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Hooded Warbler Louisiana Water-thrush Veery
Migrants Arriving From The North
September 1 to 10 Black-poll Warbler Connecticut Warbler
September 10 to 20 Wilson’s Snipe Olive-backed Thrush Bicknell’s Thrush
September 20 to 30 Herring Gull Junco White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Myrtle Warbler Yellow Palm Warbler Brown Creeper Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Winter Wren Gray-cheeked Thrush
October 1 to 10 Black-crowned Night Heron Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Chimney Swift Least Flycatcher Bobolink Indigo Bunting Scarlet Tanager 94 Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Bank Swallow White-eyed Vireo Black and White Warbler Oven-bird Redstart Wood Thrush
October 10 to 20 Spotted Sandpiper Whip-poor-will Nighthawk Red-eyed Vireo Maryland Yellow-throat Catbird Brown Thrasher House Wren Marsh Wren
October 20 to 31 Phœbe Towhee Tree Swallow
Migrants Arriving From The North
October 1 to 10 Bronzed Grackle Rusty Blackbird Hermit Thrush Canada Goose Loon Pintail and Mallard Ducks
October 10 to 20 Fox Sparrow
October 20 to 31 Horned Lark Tree Sparrow Snowflake Redpoll Northern Shrike
NOVEMBER
Migrants Leaving For The South Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Cowbird Red-winged Blackbird Purple Grackle Vesper Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow
BIRDS SEEN IN DECEMBER
Permanent Residents Winter Residents and Visitants
It is interesting to note that the earliest arrivals in the spring are the last to migrate in the fall. The reason is the food-supply. The insectivorous birds arrive later and leave earlier than those that have a more varied diet. An unusually severe winter sends birds south of their usual winter range.
The dates of migration must necessarily vary with latitude. 95 Migrants arrive near Washington a week or two earlier than near New York City, and near Boston a few days later. The lateness of the spring sometimes causes a delay of a week or two. The May arrivals appear more nearly on schedule. After May 15 birds begin to decrease in number, the “Transient Visitors” passing farther north; by June 5 we have with us our “Permanent Residents” and “Summer Residents.”
In the fall the mildness of a season may cause November migrants to remain into December, or an open winter may tempt those that habitually migrate only a short distance to remain north of their usual winter range.
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