During spring migration new birds arrive every day.  We use weather forecasts to decide when to go birding. Wouldn’t it be great to have a bird forecast, too?

Check out Cornell’s Birdcast!

When birds migrate each species moves on its own schedule so Birdcast uses eBird data to map earliest arrival dates across North America.  The maps tell us which species are on the move, who’s about to arrive and who’s left.

Cornell analyzes the past week (here’s the March 24-31 analysis), then makes four regional forecasts for the coming week.  Click here for the March 31-April 7 forecast.

The map above shows ospreys on the move from February 25 to March 25.  Yes, our ospreys are back; Toronto’s will arrive soon.

Better yet, Birdcast provides arrival highlights throughout the week.  The March 28 report has news of scissor-tailed flycatchers, chimney swifts, eastern kingbirds, red-eyed vireos, northern parulas and more!  Click here for all the Birdcast reports.

So when you want to know what’s coming, check out the bird forecast at BirdCast.

(Osprey migration interactive map, 25 Feb to 25 Mar 2017, linked from eBird’s Birdcast)