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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

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Source : 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.
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