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Average First Arrival Date for Migrant Birds
in the Tanana Valley
The upper Tanana Valley is an excellent location for
observing migratory birds. Many migrants travel down the Tanana
River Valley -- which is relatively narrow in the Delta Junction
vicinity. Sawmill Creek Road is one good location as it crosses a
substantial portion of the valley.
(Thanks to Brina Kessel and Dan Gibson of the University of Alaska Museum who compiled the data on which these dates are
based.)
March
18 Snow Bunting
25 Golden Eagle
April
8 Bald Eagle
12 Rough-legged Hawk
13 Common Goldeneye
14 Lapland Longspur
15 Canada Goose
Northern Pintail
Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Harrier
17 Mallard
American Kestrel
Short-eared Owl
19 Trumpeter Swan
Herring Gull
20 Greater White-fronted Goose
American Robin
22 American Wigeon
Sandhill Crane
23 Northern Shoveler
Ruby-crowned Kingler
American Tree Sparrow
24 Snow Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mew Gull
Photo by Michael Kingston
25 Redhead
Canvasback
American Pipit
Yellow-rumped Warbler
26 Barrow's Goldeneye
27 Varied Thrush
28 Rusty Blackbird
Fox Sparrow
29 Sharp-shinned Hawk
Violet-green Swallow
Tree Swallow
30 Red-breasted Merganser
Lesser Yellowlegs
May
1 Common Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
Northern Flicker
Hammond's Flycatcher
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
2 Solitary Sandpiper
Hermit Thrush
3 Lincoln's Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
4 Horned Grebe
American Golden Plover
6 Red-necked Grebe
Semiplamated Plover
7 Orange-crowned Warbler
8 Ring-neck Duck
Pectoral Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Belted Kingfisher
9 Lesser Scaup
10 Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Long-billed Dowitcher
Arctic Tern
Townsend's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
11 Say's Phoebe
Cliff Swallow
12 Surf Scoter
Wimbrel
Swanson's Thrush
Northern Waterthrush
13 Uplands Sandpiper
Yellow Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
14 White-winged Scoter
15 Oldsquaw
Gray-cheeked Thrush
16 Wandering Tattler
Long-tailed Jaeger
Western Wood-pewee
Olive-sided Flycatcher
17 Spotted Sandpiper
19 Bank Swallow
20 Black-bellied Plover
23 Stilt Sandpiper
25 Alder Flycatcher
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