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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

Swans and other waterfowl share a tundra pond during migration 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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