First-of-Year Birding Calendar

 

Select the Month and Year to see the dates on which birds were first seen.
Click on the birds to see photos and ID information.

Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
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30
31
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Canada Goose*
Gadwall
Mallard*
American Black Duck
Hooded Merganser
Mourning Dove*
Ring-billed Gull
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker*
Downy Woodpecker*
Hairy Woodpecker*
Northern Flicker*
Blue Jay*
American Crow*
Black-capped Chickadee*
Tufted Titmouse*
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren*
European Starling*
American Robin*
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
American Tree Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow*
Swamp Sparrow*
Northern Cardinal*
Green-winged Teal
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
2
3
Wild Turkey
4
Turkey Vulture
Pileated Woodpecker*
5
Red-tailed Hawk*
Winter Wren
Red-winged Blackbird*
6
Virginia Rail*
7
8
Eastern Screech Owl*
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
9
10
Fox Sparrow
11
Brown Creeper
12
Fish Crow
Common Raven
Barred Owl
Black Vulture
Common Grackle*
13
Gray Catbird*
14
15
16
17
Field Sparrow
18
Great Blue Heron
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
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