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Magee Marsh is on the southern shore of Lake Erie and is the last stop for migrating birds who are reluctant to cross the lake to their breeding grounds in Canada. So they plunge down into the marsh, build up their food reserves (and perhaps courage) and while doing so, put on a show for the birders who flock with them to the boardwalk. The Biggest Week in American Birding Festival takes place during migration and the boardwalk is jammed. The day after the festival ends, the boardwalk is comparatively empty, yet the birds don't know the festival is over.
Maumee Bay SP 5/14--Cliff Swallow
Oak Openings 5/15--Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Red-headed Woodpecker, Swainson's Thrush, Blue-winged, Nashville, Mourning, Chestnut-sided, Blackpoll, & Wilson's Warblers, Lark Sparrow, HENSLOW'S SPARROW, Scarlet Tanager
Magee Marsh Boardwalk 5/15--Cape May, Bay-breasted, & Blackburnian Warblers
Sandusky County 5/16--Alder Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, Bobolink
Ottawa NWR Estuary Trail 5/16--Common Nighthawk, Gray-cheeked Thrush
Erie County 5/17--Least Flycatcher, Bank Swallow, Northern Waterthrush, Tennessee Warbler, Connecticut Warbler
Ottawa NWR Auto Tour 5/17--Common Gallinule, Sandhill Crane
Metzger Marsh 5/18--Eurasian Collared-Dove-like bird
Maumee Bay SP Boardwalk 5/20-- Virginia Rail
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The list: ALL CAPS=Life Bird; Bold Italics=Year Bird; Underline=Rare Bird
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Species First Sighting
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Canada Goose Oak
Openings
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Mute Swan Pipe Creek
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Trumpeter Swan Arnold
Marsh
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Wood Duck Oak Openings
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Gadwall Pipe Creek
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American Wigeon Pipe
Creek
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Mallard McClure's
Marsh
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Blue-winged Teal Pipe
Creek
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Northern Shoveler
Pickerel Creek Wildlife Area
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Green-winged Teal
Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area
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Redhead Pickerel Creek
Wildlife Area
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Ruddy Duck Pipe Creek
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Common Loon Metzger
Marsh Wildlife Area
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Pied-billed Grebe Ottawa
NWR Auto Tour
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Double-crested Cormorant
McClure's Marsh
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American White Pelican
Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area
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Great Blue Heron McClure's
Marsh
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Great Egret Christy
Farm
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Green Heron Magee
Marsh
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Black-crowned Night-Heron
Arnold Marsh
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Glossy Ibis Pickerel
Creek Wildlife Area
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Turkey Vulture Oak
Openings
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Northern Harrier
McClure's Marsh
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Cooper's Hawk Pipe
Creek
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Bald Eagle McClure's
Marsh
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Red-tailed Hawk Oak
Openings
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Virginia Rail Maumee Bay SP Boardwalk
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Common Gallinule Ottawa NWR Auto Tour
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American Coot Pipe
Creek
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Sandhill Crane Ottawa NWR Auto Tour
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Black-bellied Plover
Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area
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Semipalmated Plover Pearson
Metropark
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Killdeer Magee Marsh
Boardwalk
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Spotted Sandpiper Pipe
Creek
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Solitary Sandpiper Pipe
Creek
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Greater Yellowlegs
Ottawa NWR--Boss Unit
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Lesser Yellowlegs
Pickerel Creek Wildlife Area
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Ruddy Turnstone Ottawa
NWR Estuary Trail
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Dunlin McClure's Marsh
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Least Sandpiper
Pearson Metropark
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Short-billed Dowitcher
Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area
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American Woodcock Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Ring-billed Gull Ottawa
NWR Estuary Trail
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Herring Gull Ottawa
NWR Estuary Trail
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Caspian Tern McClure's
Marsh
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Common Tern Ottawa NWR
Estuary Trail
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Eurasian Collared-Dove Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area
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Mourning Dove Oak
Openings
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo Oak Openings
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Eastern Screech-Owl Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Great Horned Owl Secor
Metropark
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Common Nighthawk Ottawa NWR Estuary Trail
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Chimney Swift Pickerel
Creek Wildlife Area
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Oak Openings
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Red-headed Woodpecker Oak Openings
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
Oak Openings
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Downy Woodpecker Oak
Openings
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Hairy Woodpecker Christy
Farm
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Northern Flicker Oak
Openings
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Pileated Woodpecker Irwin
Prairie
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American Kestrel
Jerusalem Rd
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Merlin Magee Marsh
Boardwalk
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Peregrine Falcon
Pickerel Creek Wildlife Area
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Eastern Wood-Pewee Oak
Openings
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Alder Flycatcher
McClure's Marsh
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Willow Flycatcher Christy Farm
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Least Flycatcher Pipe Creek
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Eastern Phoebe Oak
Openings
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Great Crested Flycatcher
Oak Openings
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Eastern Kingbird Oak
Openings
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White-eyed Vireo Oak
Openings
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Yellow-throated Vireo Oak
Openings
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Blue-headed Vireo
Pearson Metropark
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Warbling Vireo Oak
Openings
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Red-eyed Vireo Oak
Openings
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Blue Jay Oak Openings
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American Crow Oak
Openings
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Horned Lark McClure's
Marsh
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Pipe Creek
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Purple Martin
McClure's Marsh
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Tree Swallow Oak
Openings
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Bank Swallow Pipe Creek
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Barn Swallow Oak
Openings
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Cliff Swallow Maumee Bay SP
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Black-capped Chickadee
Oak Openings
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Tufted Titmouse Oak
Openings
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White-breasted Nuthatch
Oak Openings
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House Wren Oak
Openings
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Marsh Wren McClure's
Marsh
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Oak
Openings
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Eastern Bluebird Oak
Openings
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Veery Oak Openings
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Gray-cheeked Thrush Ottawa NWR Estuary Trail
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Swainson's Thrush Oak Openings
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Wood Thrush Christy
Farm
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American Robin Oak
Openings
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Gray Catbird Oak
Openings
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Brown Thrasher Oak
Openings
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Northern Mockingbird Pipe
Creek
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European Starling Oak
Openings
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Cedar Waxwing Pipe
Creek
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Ovenbird Oak Openings
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Northern Waterthrush Pipe Creek
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Blue-winged Warbler Oak Openings
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Black-and-white Warbler
Oak Openings
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Prothonotary Warbler Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Tennessee Warbler Sheldon Marsh
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Nashville Warbler Oak Openings
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Connecticut Warbler Sheldon Marsh
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Mourning Warbler Oak Openings
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Common Yellowthroat Oak
Openings
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Hooded Warbler Secor
Metropark
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American Redstart Oak
Openings
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Cape May Warbler Magee Marsh Boardwalk
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Northern Parula Magee
Marsh Boardwalk
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Magnolia Warbler Oak
Openings
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Bay-breasted Warbler Magee Marsh Boardwalk
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Blackburnian Warbler Magee Marsh Boardwalk
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Yellow Warbler Oak
Openings
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Chestnut-sided Warbler Oak Openings
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Blackpoll Warbler Oak Openings
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Black-throated Blue Warbler
Magee Marsh Boardwalk
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Yellow-rumped Warbler Oak
Openings
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Black-throated Green Warbler
Magee Marsh Boardwalk
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Canada Warbler Oak
Openings
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Wilson's Warbler Oak Openings
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Eastern Towhee Oak
Openings
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Chipping Sparrow Oak
Openings
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Field Sparrow Oak
Openings
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Lark Sparrow Oak Openings
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Savannah Sparrow Christy
Farm
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Grasshopper Sparrow Oak
Openings
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HENSLOW'S SPARROW Oak Openings
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Song Sparrow Oak
Openings
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White-crowned Sparrow Oak
Openings
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Scarlet Tanager Oak Openings
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Northern Cardinal Oak
Openings
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Sheldon Marsh
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Indigo Bunting Oak
Openings
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Bobolink Harder grasslands
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Red-winged Blackbird Oak
Openings
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Eastern Meadowlark Oak
Openings
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Common Grackle Oak
Openings
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Brown-headed Cowbird Oak
Openings
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Orchard Oriole Maumee
Bay SP Boardwalk
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Baltimore Oriole Oak
Openings
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House Finch Oak
Openings
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Pine Siskin Oak
Openings
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American Goldfinch Oak
Openings
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House Sparrow
McClure's Marsh
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