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SPRING MIGRATION SCHEDULE
FOR LONG ISLAND
(this schedule is historically when to start looking.
However, some species (due to climate change)
may now spend winters here on LI)
February 12-28
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle


March 1-10
Eastern Bluebird
Rusty Blackbird
Wood Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Killdeer
Robin
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
American Woodcock


March 11-20

Brown-headed cowbird
Fish Crow
Mourning Dove
Northern Flicker
Gannet
Snow goose
Black-crowned Night Heron
Belted Kingfisher
Eastern Meadowlark
American Oystercatcher
American Pipit
Eastern Phoebe
Piping Plover
Common Snipe


March 21-31
Double-crested Cormorant
Laughing Gull
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Osprey
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Tree Swallow
Greater Yellowlegs


April 1-10
American Bittern
Brown Creeper
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Merlin
Pectoral Sandpiper
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Blue-winged Teal
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler


April 11-20
Snowy Egret
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Broad-winged Hawk
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Purple Martin
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
Upland Sandpiper
Sora
Barn Swallow
Norther Rough-winged Swallow
Chipping Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush


April 21-30

Dunlin
Little Blue Heron
Northern Parula
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Grasshopper Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Chimney Swift
Brown Thrasher
Solitary Vireo
Black & White Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Whimbrel
Whip-poor-will
House Wren


May 1-10

Least Bittern
Bobolink
Gray Catbird
Short-billed Dowitcher
Great-crested Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Northern Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Ovenbird
American Redstart
Scarlet Tanager
Common Tern
Least Tern
Wood Thrush
Ruddy Turnstone
Veery
White-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Willet
Marsh Wren
Common Yellowthroat


May 11-20

Indigo Bunting
Yellow-breasted Chat
Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Red Knot
Common Nighthawk
Eastern Wood Pewee
White-rumped Sandpiper
Black Skimmer
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Roseate Tern
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Red-eyed Vireo
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Canada Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Cedar Waxwing


May 21-31

Olive-sided Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Wilson's Storm Petral
Sooty Shearwater
Black Tern
Mourning Warbler