Birds Of Massachusetts Arrival Dates
Returning Birds By Month & Week

italics = non-breeding species
 

March

3A

3B

3C

3D

American Wigeon 3A-5B

Pied-billed Grebe 3B-12B

Snow Goose 3C-5B

Double-crested Cormorant 3D-11B

Northern Pintail 3A-12B

Great Blue Heron 3B-12B

Gadwall 3C-11C

Black-crowned Night Heron 3D-10B

Green-winged Teal 3A-12B

Turkey Vulture 3B-11B

Northern Shoveler 3C-5D

Blue-winged Teal 3D-11B

American Woodcock 3A-11B

Tundra Swan 3B-4A

Piping Plover 3C-9C

Osprey 3D-10D

Fox Sparrow 3A-4D

Wood Duck 3B-11D

Greater Yellowlegs 3C-6A

Broad-winged Hawk 3D-10A

Red-winged Blackbird 3A-11B

Peregrine Falcon 3B-5C

Loggerhead Shrike 3C-4D

American Oystercatcher 3D-10C

Common Grackle 3A-11B

Killdeer 3B-12A

Tree Swallow 3C-10D

Common Snipe 3D-5C

 

Eastern Phoebe 3B-10C

 

American Pipit 3D-5C

 

Rusty Blackbird 3B-5A

 

 

 

Brown-headed Cowbird 3B-11D

 

Pg. 1

 


 

April

4A

4B

4C

4D

Great Egret 4A-10D

American Bittern 4B-11B

Tricolored Heron 4C-9D

Solitary Sandpiper 4D-5C

Snowy Egret 4A-10C

Little Blue Heron 4B-9D

Green Heron 4C-10C

Spotted Sandpiper 4D-9D

Sharp-shinned Hawk 4A-5B

Cattle Egret 4B-10D

Sora 4C-10C

Caspian Tern 4D-5B

American Golden Plover 4A-5C

Glossy Ibis 4B-9C

Black-bellied Plover 4C-6B

Whip-poor-will 4D-9D

Bonaparte's Gull 4A-6B

Virginia Rail 4B-10C

Willet 4C-10C

Least Flycatcher 4D-9C

Winter Wren 4A-12C

Common Moorhen 4B-10B

Upland Sandpiper 4C-9C

Great Crested Flycatcher 4D-9C

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4A-5C

Lesser Yellowlegs 4B-5C

Least Sandpiper 4C-6A

Eastern Kingbird 4D-9C

Pine Warbler 4A-12A

Pectoral Sandpiper 4B-5C

Red Phalarope 4C-5D

Wood Thrush 4D-9D

Palm Warbler 4A-5B

Ruff 4B-5C

Laughing Gull 4C-11D

Gray Catbird 4D-12C

Field Sparrow 4A-11D

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4B-10B

Little Gull 4C-6A

Northern Parula 4D-6A

Vesper Sparrow 4A-11D

Blue-headed Vireo 4B-10B

Chimney Swift 4C-10A

Yellow Warbler 4D-10A

Swamp Sparrow 4A-11D

Purple Martin 4B-9A

Bank Swallow 4C-9B

Black-throated Green Warbler 4D-10D

Yellow-headed Blackbird 4A-5C

No. Rough-winged Swallow 4B-9D

Cliff Swallow 4C-9B

Blackburnian Warbler 4D-9D

 

Barn Swallow 4B-10C

House Wren 4C-10D

Yellow-throated Warbler 4D-5C

 

Hermit Thrush 4B-12C

Marsh Wren 4C-10D

Black & white Warbler 4D-9D

 

Chipping Sparrow 4B-10D

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4C-9D

Northern Waterthrush 4D-9D

 

Blue Grosbeak 4B-5B

Brown Thrasher 4C-10C

Eastern Towhee 4D-10D

 

 

Prothonotary Warbler 4C-5C

 

 

 

Louisiana Waterthrush 4C-8B

 

 

 

Summer Tanager 4C-5C

Pg. 2

 


 

May (pg 1)

5A

5B

5C

5D

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 5A-9C

Manx Shearwater 5B-11C

Sooty Shearwater 5C-10C

Greater Shearwater 5D-11C

Black Vulture 5A-9B

Wilson’s Storm-Petrel 5B-9B

Whimbrel 5B-6B

Acadian Flycatcher 5D-8D

Clapper Rail 5A-12D

Leach’s Storm-Petrel 5B-11C

Red Knot 5C-6A

 

Short-billed Dowitcher 5A-6B

Least Bittern 5B-8D

Pomarine Jaeger 5C-5D

 

Red-necked Phalarope 5A-5D

Semipalmated Plover 5B-6B

Parasitic Jaeger 5C-5D

 

Roseate Tern 5A-9D

Ruddy Turnstone 5B-6A

Sabine’s Gull 5C-5D

 

Common Tern 5A-11C

Semipalmated Sandpiper 5B-6B

Black Tern 5C-6B

 

Least Tern 5A-9B

White-rumped Sandpiper 5B-6B

Black Skimmer 5C-9C

 

Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5A-9C

Wilson’s Phalarope 5B-9D

Black-billed Cuckoo 5C-10B

 

White-eyed Vireo 5A-9D

Arctic Tern 5B-8C

Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5C-10B

 

Warbling Vireo 5A-9B

Chuck-will’s-widow 5B-9C

Common Nighthawk 5C-9C

 

Veery 5A-9C

Yellow-throated Vireo 5B-9C

Olive-sided Flycatcher 5C-9B

 

Tennessee Warbler 5A-6A

Red-eyed Vireo 5B-10B

Eastern Wood-Pewee 5C-10A

 

Orange-crowned Warbler 5A-5D

Sedge Wren 5B-10C

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 5C-6B

 

Nashville Warbler 5A-10C

Gray-cheeked Thrush 5B-10A

Alder Flycatcher 5C-9B

 

 

 

 

Pg. 3

 


 

May (pg 2)

5A

5B

5C

5D

Chestnut-sided Warbler 5A-9D

Bicknell's Thrush 5B-10A

Willow Flycatcher 5C-9B

 

Magnolia Warbler 5A-10D

Swainson's Thrush 5B-10A

Philadelphia Vireo 5C-5D

 

Black-throated Blue Warbler 5A-10B

Blue-winged Warbler 5B-9C

Mourning Warbler 5C-10A

 

Prairie Warbler 5A-10A

Golden-winged Warbler 5B-9A

Yellow-breasted Chat 5C-6A

 

American Redstart 5A-10B

Cape May Warbler 5B-5D

Indigo Bunting 5C-10B

 

Ovenbird 5A-10A

Bay-breasted Warbler 5B-6A

 

 

Kentucky Warbler 5A-5D

Blackpoll Warbler 5B-10D

 

 

Common Yellowthroat 5A-11A

Cerulean Warbler 5B-9C

 

 

White-crowned Sparrow 5A-5C

Worm-eating Warbler 5B-9C

 

 

Rose-breasted Grosbeak 5A-10D

Hooded Warbler 5B-9D

 

 

Bobolink 5A-10A

Wilson's Warbler 5B-5D

 

 

Orchard Oriole 5A-8B

Canada Warbler 5B-9C

 

 

Baltimore Oriole 5A-10B

Scarlet Tanager 5B-10B

 

 

 

Grasshopper Sparrow 5B-10D

 

 

 

Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 5B-6A

 

 

 

Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 5B-11D

 

 

 

Seaside Sparrow 5B-10C

 

 

 

Lincoln's Sparrow 5B-5D

 

Pg. 4

 


 

June

6A

6B

6C

6D

                                     

                                     

                                     

Royal Tern 6D-9A

 

July

7A

7B

7C

7D

Black-bellied Plover 7A-12A

Cory's Shearwater 7B-11B

Audubon's Shearwater 7C-9C

Long-billed Dowitcher 7D-11B

Lesser Yellowlegs 7A-10C

Greater Yellowlegs 7B-11D

Semipalmated Plover 7C-11A

Pomarine Jaeger 7D-11C

Hudsonian Godwit 7A-11A

Solitary Sandpiper 7B-9D

White-rumped Sandpiper 7C-11B

Forster's Tern 7D-11B

Least Sandpiper 7A-10B

Whimbrel 7B-10B

Pectoral Sandpiper 7C-11B

 

Ruff 7A-9A

Ruddy Turnstone 7B-10C

Red-necked Phalarope 7C-10C

 

Short-billed Dowitcher 7A-9D

Red Knot 7B-10D

Parasitic Jaeger 7C-11A

 

Black Tern 7A-9C

Sanderling 7B-6A

 

 

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper 7B-10D

 

 

 

Stilt Sandpiper 7B-9D

 

Pg. 5

 


 

August

8A

8B

8C

8D

Northern Shoveler 8A-12D

Marbled Godwit 8B-10D

American Wigeon 8C-12D

Dunlin 8D-5D

King Rail 8A-10D

Red Phalarope 8B-11C

Surf Scoter 8C-5D

Wilson's Snipe 8D-11D

Caspian Tern 8A-10C

Little Gull 8B-10D

White-winged Scoter 8C-5D

Lesser Black-backed Gull 8D-5A

 

Sabine's Gull 8B-10D

Black Scoter 8C-5D

Philadelphia Vireo 8D-10A

 

Loggerhead Shrike 8B-10A

American Golden Plover 8C-10D

Tennessee Warbler 8D-10A

 

Dickcissel 8B-12D

Western Sandpiper 8C-11A

Northern Parula 8D-10B

 

 

Baird's Sandpiper 8C-10B

Summer Tanager 8D-9C

 

 

Buff-breasted Sandpiper 8C-9C

Nelson's sharp-tailed sparrow 8D-10D

 

 

Bonaparte's Gull 8C-12D

Yellow-headed Blackbird 8D-9D

 

 

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 8C-9C

 

 

 

Cape May Warbler 8C-10C

 

 

 

Yellow-throated Warbler 8C-10C

 

 

 

Bay-breasted Warbler 8C-9D

 

 

 

Prothonotary Warbler 8C-9B

 

 

 

Kentucky Warbler 8C-9C

 

 

 

Wilson's Warbler 8C-9D

 

 

 

Yellow-breasted Chat 8C-10D

 

 

 

Lark Sparrow 8C-10C

Pg. 6

 


 

September

9A

9B

9C

9D

Common Loon 9A-5C

Horned Grebe 9B-5C

Red-throated Loon 9C-5C

Northern Fulmar 9D-6B

Northern Gannet 9A-5C

Greater Scaup 9B-5D

Great Cormorant 9C-5A

Lesser Scaup 9D-4D

Merlin 9A-5C

Sharp-shinned Hawk 9B-10C

Bufflehead 9C-5C

Hooded Merganser 9D-4C

Red-headed Woodpecker 9A-10D

Peregrine Falcon 9B-12C

Clay-colored Sparrow 9C-10D

Black-legged Kittiwake 9D-4A

Western Kingbird 9A-11D

Black-headed Gull 9B-5C

Rusty Blackbird 9C-11A

 

Palm Warbler 9A-11B

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 9B-11A

Eurasian Wigeon 9C-11D

 

Connecticut Warbler 9A-10A

American Pipit 9B-11B

 

 

 

Orange-crowned Warbler 9B-12C

 

 

 

Lincoln's Sparrow 9B-10D

 

 

 

White-crowned Sparrow 9B-12D

 

 

 

Blue Grosbeak 9B-10D

 

Pg. 7

 


 

October

10A

10B

10C