| 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 |