Osprey are arriving back in the Upper Midwest and Northeast this week!
Spring has arrived in North America, and we’ll be featuring the BirdCast migration forecasts weekly to keep you up to date with what birds are arriving in your area. If you want to know what species of migrant birds will be showing up in your neck of the woods on any given week throughout the migration season, this is the place to look! These updates will also be posted on the eBird Facebook and Twitter pages – by following those pages you can get the same information delivered to your social media platform of choice. The BirdCast forecast highlights migrant species that you can expect to see in each of the regions covered: Upper Midwest and Northeast; Gulf Coast and Southeast; Great Plains; and West.
Below are links to each of the regions, where you can see what to expect in your backyard or favorite birding spot! All of these forecasts are generated entirely with your eBird data, and wouldn’t be possible without eBirders like you! Thank you!
BirdCast Continental Summary for 27 March–3 April 2015
Friday and Monday nights will be the most extensive of the light to moderate movements that occur in the West this week featuring Cassin’s Vireo, Tree Swallow, Orange-crowned Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Black-throated Gray Warbler, White-crowned Sparrow, while several pulses of more extensive light to moderate movements grace the East from Saturday through Wednesday featuring Double-crested Cormorant, Osprey, Pectoral Sandpiper, Baird’s Sandpiper, Eastern Phoebe, Yellow-throated Vireo, Hooded Warbler, and Fox Sparrow.