Recommended fruit-bearing shrubs for migratory birds
This guide authored by Susan Smith and Scott McWilliams is tailored toward the northeastern U.S. but many of the shrub and vine species occur in our area of Mid-Michigan.
USGS Bird Banding Lab
This link will take you to the site where all birds banded in U.S. are reported. Using their longevity tool you can search on a species to see the oldest individuals ever recorded for that species.
BirdCast
Check out this amazing website that gives migration forecasts for your area. “Bird migration forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. These forecasts come from models trained on the last 23 years of bird movements in the atmosphere as detected by the US NEXRAD weather surveillance radar network.“
Citation: Van Doren, B. M and Horton, K. G. Year/s of forecast migration map image. BirdCast, migration forecast map; generation date and time (most easily accessible from data on the image). Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Colorado State University. birdcast.info/live-migration-maps. Date/s of access or download”
Bird Names
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2022/whats-bird-name
