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Rural School Leaflet 



THE AVERAGE DATE OF THE SPRING ARRIVAL OF BIRDS 

 AT ITHACA, NEW YORK 



February i to 21 

 Prairie homed lark 



February 22 to March 15 



Robin 

 Bluebird 

 Song sparrow 

 Canada goose 

 Red-winged blackbird 

 Bronzed grackle 



March 16 to 25 



Meadow lark 



Killdeer 



Black duck 



Bufflehead 



Paldpate 



Pintail 



Mallard 



"Wood duck 



Phoebe 



Cowbird 



Cedar waxwing 



Rusty blackbird 



Slate-colored junco 



Fox sparrow 



Hooded merganser 



^Mourning dove 



Ring-billed gvdl 



March 26 to 31 

 Golden-cro\\Tied kinglet 

 Piu-ple finch 

 Sparrow hawk 

 Savanna sparrow 

 Vesper sparrow 

 Cooper's hawk 

 Sharp-shinned hawk 

 IMarsh hawk 

 Pied-billed grebe 

 - Belted kingfisher 

 Great blue heron 



April I to 5 



Coot 



Field sparrow 



Chipping sparrow 



Green-winged teal 



Woodcock 



Flicker 



YeUow-bellied sapsucker 



Swamp sparrow 



Lesser scaup duck 



April 6 to 10 



Tree swallow 



Blue-winged teal 



Pectoral sandpiper 



Pipit 



Winter wren 



Osprey 



Bittern 



x\pril II to 15 



Wilson's snipe 

 Red-breasted merganser 

 Hermit thrush 



April 16 to 20 



Goldfinch 



Rub\--crowned kinglet 

 Louisiana water thrush 

 Bam swallow 

 Homed grebe 

 White-throated sparrow 

 Pine warbler 



April 21 to 25 



IMyrtle warbler 

 Towhee 



Spotted sandpiper 

 Chimney swift 

 Virginia rail 

 Bank swallow 

 Broad-winged hawk 

 Green heron 



April 26 to 30 

 Rough-\\-inged swallow 

 House wren 

 Brown thrasher 

 Blue-headed vireo 

 Black and white warbler 

 Yellow warbler 

 Veery 



