Birds Of Massachusetts
Arrival Dates
Returning Birds By Month & Week
italics = non-breeding
species
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3A |
3B |
3C |
3D |
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American Wigeon 3A-5B |
Pied-billed Grebe 3B-12B |
Snow Goose 3C-5B |
Double-crested Cormorant 3D-11B |
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Northern Pintail 3A-12B |
Great Blue Heron 3B-12B |
Gadwall 3C-11C |
Black-crowned Night Heron 3D-10B |
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Green-winged Teal 3A-12B |
Turkey Vulture 3B-11B |
Northern Shoveler 3C-5D |
Blue-winged Teal 3D-11B |
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American Woodcock 3A-11B |
Tundra Swan 3B-4A |
Piping Plover 3C-9C |
Osprey 3D-10D |
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Fox Sparrow 3A-4D |
Wood Duck 3B-11D |
Greater Yellowlegs 3C-6A |
Broad-winged Hawk 3D-10A |
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Red-winged Blackbird 3A-11B |
Peregrine Falcon 3B-5C |
Loggerhead Shrike 3C-4D |
American Oystercatcher 3D-10C |
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Common Grackle 3A-11B |
Killdeer 3B-12A |
Tree Swallow 3C-10D |
Common Snipe 3D-5C |
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Eastern Phoebe 3B-10C |
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American Pipit 3D-5C |
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Rusty Blackbird 3B-5A |
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Brown-headed Cowbird 3B-11D |
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Pg. 1 |
April
4A |
4B |
4C |
4D |
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Great Egret 4A-10D |
American Bittern 4B-11B |
Tricolored Heron 4C-9D |
Solitary Sandpiper 4D-5C |
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Snowy Egret 4A-10C |
Little Blue Heron 4B-9D |
Green Heron 4C-10C |
Spotted Sandpiper 4D-9D |
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Sharp-shinned Hawk 4A-5B |
Cattle Egret 4B-10D |
Sora 4C-10C |
Caspian Tern 4D-5B |
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American Golden Plover 4A-5C |
Glossy Ibis 4B-9C |
Black-bellied Plover 4C-6B |
Whip-poor-will 4D-9D |
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Bonaparte's Gull 4A-6B |
Virginia Rail 4B-10C |
Willet 4C-10C |
Least Flycatcher 4D-9C |
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Winter Wren 4A-12C |
Common Moorhen 4B-10B |
Upland Sandpiper 4C-9C |
Great Crested Flycatcher 4D-9C |
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4A-5C |
Lesser Yellowlegs 4B-5C |
Least Sandpiper 4C-6A |
Eastern Kingbird 4D-9C |
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Pine Warbler 4A-12A |
Pectoral Sandpiper 4B-5C |
Red Phalarope 4C-5D |
Wood Thrush 4D-9D |
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Palm Warbler 4A-5B |
Ruff 4B-5C |
Laughing Gull 4C-11D |
Gray Catbird 4D-12C |
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Field Sparrow 4A-11D |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4B-10B |
Little Gull 4C-6A |
Northern Parula 4D-6A |
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Vesper Sparrow 4A-11D |
Blue-headed Vireo 4B-10B |
Chimney Swift 4C-10A |
Yellow Warbler 4D-10A |
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Swamp Sparrow 4A-11D |
Purple Martin 4B-9A |
Bank Swallow 4C-9B |
Black-throated Green Warbler 4D-10D |
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Yellow-headed Blackbird 4A-5C |
No. Rough-winged Swallow 4B-9D |
Cliff Swallow 4C-9B |
Blackburnian Warbler 4D-9D |
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Barn Swallow 4B-10C |
House Wren 4C-10D |
Yellow-throated Warbler 4D-5C |
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Hermit Thrush 4B-12C |
Marsh Wren 4C-10D |
Black & white Warbler 4D-9D |
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Chipping Sparrow 4B-10D |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4C-9D |
Northern Waterthrush 4D-9D |
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Blue Grosbeak 4B-5B |
Brown Thrasher 4C-10C |
Eastern Towhee 4D-10D |
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Prothonotary Warbler 4C-5C |
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Louisiana Waterthrush 4C-8B |
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Summer Tanager 4C-5C |
Pg. 2 |
May (pg 1)
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5A |
5B |
5C |
5D |
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 5A-9C |
Manx Shearwater 5B-11C |
Sooty Shearwater 5C-10C |
Greater Shearwater 5D-11C |
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Black Vulture 5A-9B |
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel 5B-9B |
Whimbrel 5B-6B |
Acadian Flycatcher 5D-8D |
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Clapper Rail 5A-12D |
Leach’s Storm-Petrel 5B-11C |
Red Knot 5C-6A |
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Short-billed Dowitcher 5A-6B |
Least Bittern 5B-8D |
Pomarine Jaeger 5C-5D |
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Red-necked Phalarope 5A-5D |
Semipalmated Plover 5B-6B |
Parasitic Jaeger 5C-5D |
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Roseate Tern 5A-9D |
Ruddy Turnstone 5B-6A |
Sabine’s Gull 5C-5D |
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Common Tern 5A-11C |
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5B-6B |
Black Tern 5C-6B |
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Least Tern 5A-9B |
White-rumped Sandpiper 5B-6B |
Black Skimmer 5C-9C |
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5A-9C |
Wilson’s Phalarope 5B-9D |
Black-billed Cuckoo 5C-10B |
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White-eyed Vireo 5A-9D |
Arctic Tern 5B-8C |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5C-10B |
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Warbling Vireo 5A-9B |
Chuck-will’s-widow 5B-9C |
Common Nighthawk 5C-9C |
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Veery 5A-9C |
Yellow-throated Vireo 5B-9C |
Olive-sided Flycatcher 5C-9B |
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Tennessee Warbler 5A-6A |
Red-eyed Vireo 5B-10B |
Eastern Wood-Pewee 5C-10A |
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Orange-crowned Warbler 5A-5D |
Sedge Wren 5B-10C |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 5C-6B |
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Nashville Warbler 5A-10C |
Gray-cheeked Thrush 5B-10A |
Alder Flycatcher 5C-9B |
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Pg. 3 |
May (pg 2)
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5A |
5B |
5C |
5D |
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Chestnut-sided Warbler 5A-9D |
Bicknell's Thrush 5B-10A |
Willow Flycatcher 5C-9B |
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Magnolia Warbler 5A-10D |
Swainson's Thrush 5B-10A |
Philadelphia Vireo 5C-5D |
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Black-throated Blue Warbler 5A-10B |
Blue-winged Warbler 5B-9C |
Mourning Warbler 5C-10A |
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Prairie Warbler 5A-10A |
Golden-winged Warbler 5B-9A |
Yellow-breasted Chat 5C-6A |
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American Redstart 5A-10B |
Cape May Warbler 5B-5D |
Indigo Bunting 5C-10B |
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Ovenbird 5A-10A |
Bay-breasted Warbler 5B-6A |
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Kentucky Warbler 5A-5D |
Blackpoll Warbler 5B-10D |
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Common Yellowthroat 5A-11A |
Cerulean Warbler 5B-9C |
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White-crowned Sparrow 5A-5C |
Worm-eating Warbler 5B-9C |
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak 5A-10D |
Hooded Warbler 5B-9D |
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Bobolink 5A-10A |
Wilson's Warbler 5B-5D |
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Orchard Oriole 5A-8B |
Canada Warbler 5B-9C |
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Baltimore Oriole 5A-10B |
Scarlet Tanager 5B-10B |
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Grasshopper Sparrow 5B-10D |
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Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 5B-6A |
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Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow 5B-11D |
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Seaside Sparrow 5B-10C |
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Lincoln's Sparrow 5B-5D |
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Pg. 4 |
June
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6A |
6B |
6C |
6D |
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Royal Tern 6D-9A |
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7A |
7B |
7C |
7D |
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Black-bellied Plover 7A-12A |
Cory's Shearwater 7B-11B |
Audubon's Shearwater 7C-9C |
Long-billed Dowitcher 7D-11B |
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Lesser Yellowlegs 7A-10C |
Greater Yellowlegs 7B-11D |
Semipalmated Plover 7C-11A |
Pomarine Jaeger 7D-11C |
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Hudsonian Godwit 7A-11A |
Solitary Sandpiper 7B-9D |
White-rumped Sandpiper 7C-11B |
Forster's Tern 7D-11B |
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Least Sandpiper 7A-10B |
Whimbrel 7B-10B |
Pectoral Sandpiper 7C-11B |
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Ruff 7A-9A |
Ruddy Turnstone 7B-10C |
Red-necked Phalarope 7C-10C |
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Short-billed Dowitcher 7A-9D |
Red Knot 7B-10D |
Parasitic Jaeger 7C-11A |
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Black Tern 7A-9C |
Sanderling 7B-6A |
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Semipalmated Sandpiper 7B-10D |
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Stilt Sandpiper 7B-9D |
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Pg. 5 |
August
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8A |
8B |
8C |
8D |
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Northern Shoveler 8A-12D |
Marbled Godwit 8B-10D |
American Wigeon 8C-12D |
Dunlin 8D-5D |
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King Rail 8A-10D |
Red Phalarope 8B-11C |
Surf Scoter 8C-5D |
Wilson's Snipe 8D-11D |
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Caspian Tern 8A-10C |
Little Gull 8B-10D |
White-winged Scoter 8C-5D |
Lesser Black-backed Gull 8D-5A |
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Sabine's Gull 8B-10D |
Black Scoter 8C-5D |
Philadelphia Vireo 8D-10A |
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Loggerhead Shrike 8B-10A |
American Golden Plover 8C-10D |
Tennessee Warbler 8D-10A |
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Dickcissel 8B-12D |
Western Sandpiper 8C-11A |
Northern Parula 8D-10B |
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Baird's Sandpiper 8C-10B |
Summer Tanager 8D-9C |
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper 8C-9C |
Nelson's sharp-tailed sparrow 8D-10D |
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Bonaparte's Gull 8C-12D |
Yellow-headed Blackbird 8D-9D |
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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 8C-9C |
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Cape May Warbler 8C-10C |
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Yellow-throated Warbler 8C-10C |
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Bay-breasted Warbler 8C-9D |
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Prothonotary Warbler 8C-9B |
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Kentucky Warbler 8C-9C |
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Wilson's Warbler 8C-9D |
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Yellow-breasted Chat 8C-10D |
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Lark Sparrow 8C-10C |
Pg. 6 |
September
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9A |
9B |
9C |
9D |
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Common Loon 9A-5C |
Horned Grebe 9B-5C |
Red-throated Loon 9C-5C |
Northern Fulmar 9D-6B |
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Northern Gannet 9A-5C |
Greater Scaup 9B-5D |
Great Cormorant 9C-5A |
Lesser Scaup 9D-4D |
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Merlin 9A-5C |
Sharp-shinned Hawk 9B-10C |
Bufflehead 9C-5C |
Hooded Merganser 9D-4C |
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Red-headed Woodpecker 9A-10D |
Peregrine Falcon 9B-12C |
Clay-colored Sparrow 9C-10D |
Black-legged Kittiwake 9D-4A |
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Western Kingbird 9A-11D |
Black-headed Gull 9B-5C |
Rusty Blackbird 9C-11A |
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Palm Warbler 9A-11B |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 9B-11A |
Eurasian Wigeon 9C-11D |
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Connecticut Warbler 9A-10A |
American Pipit 9B-11B |
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Orange-crowned Warbler 9B-12C |
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Lincoln's Sparrow 9B-10D |
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White-crowned Sparrow 9B-12D |
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Blue Grosbeak 9B-10D |
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Pg. 7 |
October
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10A |
10B |
10C |