Below is a list of typical spring arrival dates mostly lifted from Birds of the New York Area by Bull(1964)- one of my favorite books. A few things here may be slightly outdated, but overall it's still surprisingly accurate.
Late Feb (Feb 21-28)- Canada Goose, Red-wing, Common Grackle Early March (March 1-10)- Pied-billed Grebe, Wood Duck, Killdeer, Woodcock, Robin, Eastern Bluebird, Rusty Blackbird, Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow Mid March (11-20)- Gannet, Blk-cr Night Heron, Snow Goose, Turkey Vulture, Piping Plover, Wilson's Snipe, Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher, Flicker, Phoebe, Fish Crow, Water Pipit, Meadowlark, Cowbird Late March (21-31) DC Cormorant, Osprey, Greater Yellowlegs, Laughing Gull, Tree Swallow, G-Cr Kinglet, Savannah Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Field Sparrow Early April (1-10) Great Bl Heron, Great Egret, Bittern, Bl winged Teal, Broad-winged Hawk, Merlin, Pectoral Sandpiper, Sapsucker, Creeper, Hermit Thrush, Ruby-cr Kinglet, Pine Warbler, "Yellow" Palm Warbler, Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, White-throat, Swamp Sparrow Mid April- Snowy Egret, Green Heron, Yellow-cr Night Heron, Clapper Rail, Virginia Rail, Sora, Upland Sandpiper, Rough-winged Swallow, Barn Swallow, Purple Martin, Gnatcatcher, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush Late April- Little Blue Heron, Common Moorhen, Semi Plover, Solitary Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Dunlin, Semi Sandpiper, Whip-poor-will, Chimney Swift, Bank Swallow, Cliff swallow, House Wren, Brown Thrasher, Blue-headed Vireo, Blk& White Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Parula, Yellow Warbler, Blk-thr Green Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Grasshopper Sparrow, Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Seaside Sparrow Early May- Least Bittern, Ruddy Turnstone, Willet, Shrt-billed Dowitcher, Common Tern, Least Tern, R-thr Hummingbird, E. Kingbird, Grt-cr. Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Marsh Wren, Catbird, Wood Thrush, Veery, White-eyed Vireo, Yellow-thr Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Golden -w Warbler, Bl-w Warbler, Blk-thr Blue Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Ovenbird, N. Waterthrush, Yellowthroat, Hooded Warbler, Wm. Redstart, Bobolink, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-br Grosbeak Mid May- Knot, White-rumped Sandpiper, Roseate Tern, Black Skimmer, Yellow-b Cuckoo, Blk--b Cuckoo, Common Nighthawk, Wood Peewee, Swainson's Thrush, Gr- Cheeked Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eyed Vireo, Tennessee Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackpoll, Yellow-br. Chat, Wilson's Warbler, Canada Warbler, Indigo Bunting, White-cr Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow Late May- Sooty Shearwater, Wilson's Storm Petrel, Black Tern, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Alder/ Willow Flycatcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Mourning Warbler, Nelson’s Sparrow -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
