Snow Geese by the tens of thousands lift off and settle back down in the Knox-Marsellus Marsh during the annual spring bird migration at the Montezuma Wetlands Complex in the town of Tyre, Seneca County, Monday, March 9, 2020. During a roughly two week stretch, hundreds of thousands of the geese will migrate from their winter homes in the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, stopping in Montezuma for rest and food, before continuing on to their summer nesting home in the Hudson Bay region in the Canadian arctic.
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Double-crested Cormorants sit on a log in the reservoir at Eagle Creek Park, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019.
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A Great Blue Heron is surrounded by peaceful water and pastel reflections at Eagle Creek Park, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019.
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A smaller flock of snow geese lift off from a flooded corn field along Route 31 during the annual spring bird migration at the Montezuma Wetlands Complex.
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Marbled godwits stand at attention at Bowditch Point Park on Fort Myers Beach on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. The birds, along with hundreds of other shorebirds that included, gulls, terns, skimmers, pelicans and other sand pipers were congregated near the dredge that is dredging the pass. Seconds after this photo was taken, tbe birds were disturbed by a jogger and his unleashed dog. Some shorebirds fly long distances as they migrate, disturbing them can cause them to waste much needed energy that they use to migrate. Walking
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Sandhill Cranes, like this one at Kensington Metropark, is one of the many migrating bird species that birdwatchers can enjoy in the metro Detroit area during the fall migration according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
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American white pelicans make their way to the water as a flock of ring-billed seagulls fly overhead on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at Lake Red Rock near Pella. The pelicans, which can weigh up to 30 pounds and have a 10-foot wingspan, are found throughout the Midwest during the summer months before migrating south during the winter.
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A sandhill crane leaps in the air and furrows it’s feathers at a squabbling group cranes at the UF/IFAS cow pastures at the Beef Teaching Unit off SW 23rs Street, in Gainesville Dec. 2, 2021. As the cold weather starts in the North, the sandhill cranes annually migrate South through Gainesville and Paynes Prairie. The sandhill’s honk like call is a familiar sound from the skies that locals associate with the end of Fall and beginning of Winter.
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A flock of migrating Black Ibis are seen resting in Rancho San Rafael Region Park in Reno on May 22, 2021.
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A migrating Saw-Whet owl peeks out from behind a tree in Owl Woods in Greece, NY Thursday, March 25, 2021.
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A female painted bunting flits through the foliage at Lakes Park on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. It was seen with a host of other migrating birds including a Northern parula, a blue-headed vireo and male painted buntings.
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A painted bunting feeds at Lakes Park on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. The colorful birds are a much sought after sighting when they show up in Southwest Florida. They were seen with a host of other migrating birds including Northern parula, a white eyed vireo, a blue headed vireo and other warblers.
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A palm warbler flits through the foliage at Lakes Park on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. It was seen with a host of other migrating birds including a Northern parula, a blue headed vireo and male painted buntings.
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A blue-headed vireo flits through the foliage at Lakes Park on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. It was seen with a host of other migrating birds including Northern parulas, a white eyed vireo and painted buntings. It was formerly named a solitary vireo. Buntings009
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A Red-winged blackbird sings above a marsh in the west side of Richland County on Thursday morning. The migratory bird has become more common lately. It has been known to migrate over 1000 miles and hearing its song is a sure sign spring is close.
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A flock of swallow-tailed kites soars over the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed on Monday, May 2, 2022. The acrobatic birds are nesting this time of year. Some of the birds could be seen gathering nesting material. In July they will gather in large communal roosts and then make the migration to South America.
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BARNSTABLE 08/25/22 A hummingbird settles into the late afternoon light of August for a long drink at a feeder ahead of migration south. Steve Heaslip/Cape Cod Times
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Raptors, like this hawk at Kensington Metropark, are one of the many migrating bird species that birdwatchers can enjoy in the metro Detroit area during the fall migration according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
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Tundra swans and near other waterfowl and swans Saturday, November 12, 2022 on the Mississippi River between Stoddard, Wis. and Brownsville, Minn. In a half-mile stretch of the river sheltered on the leeward side of restored islands, several thousand tundra swans congregate while on their migration south from Alaska and northern Canada.
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An American White Pelican lets out a yawn as its flock settles in for the night on Kirk Pond northwest of Eugene at sunset. One of the largest North American birds, the American White Pelican migrate through the western United States, Mexico and Central America, but breed at fewer than 60 colonies in the US.
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Snow geese migrate over marshland and the Assawoman Bay in Ocean City, Maryland, during the 2023 winter season.
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An uncommon Caspian tern, the largest of the terns, stops on Wollaston Beach in Quincy during its migration from Canada to northern South America on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022.
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The bright red flash of a male cardinal means spring is in the still-chilled air at Tinker Nature Park in Henrietta Friday, March 10, 2023 as migrating birds return to the area on their way northward.
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A flock of Redhead Diving Ducks stop and feed at Braddock Bay during their migration.
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