When do birds migrate to Alaska?
Interior Alaska
Average date of first arrival for migrant birds
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
- 22 American Wigeon; Sandhill Crane
- 23 Northern Shoveler; Ruby-crowned Kinglet; American Tree Sparrow
- 24 Snow Goose; Green-winged Teal; Mew Gull
- 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; Hammonds Flycatcher; Savannah Sparrow; White-crowned Sparrow
- 2 Solitary Sandpiper; Hermit Thrush
- 3 Golden-crowned Sparrow; Lincoln's Sparrow
- 4 Horned Grebe; American Golden Plover
- 6 Red-necked Grebe; Semipalmated Plover
- 7 Orange-crowned Warbler
- 8 Ring-neck Duck; Pectoral Sandpiper; Least Sandpiper; Belted Kingfisher
- 9 Lesser Scamp
- 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; Whimbrel; Swainson's Thrush; Northern Waterthrush
- 13 Upland Sandpiper; Yellow Warbler; Blackpoll Warbler
- 14 White-winged Scoter
- 15 Oldsquaw; Grey-cheeled Thrush
- 16 Wandering Tattler; Lond-tailed Jaeger; Western Wood-pewee; Olive-sided Flycatcher
- 17 Spotted Sandpiper
- 19 Bank Swallow
- 20 Black-bellied Plover
- 23 Stilt Sandpiper
- 25 Alder Flycatcher
Coastal Alaska
- Thanks to Brina Kessel and Dan Gibson of the University of Alaska Museum who compiled the data on which these average dates of first arrival are based.