Interesting Facts
MIGRATION PHENOLOGY
Median first observation date of birds with at least 5 observations at Cheyenne Bottoms during 1976-2003
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SPECIES |
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MAR |
APR |
MAY |
JUN |
JUL |
AUG |
SEP |
OCT |
NOV |
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Mallard |
4- Feb |
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Common merganser |
4- Feb |
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Hooded merganser |
6- Feb |
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Belted kingfisher |
7- Feb |
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Northern pintail |
8- Feb |
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Common goldeneye |
9- Feb |
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Greater white-fronted goose |
10- Feb |
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Green-winged teal |
15- Feb |
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Tundra swan |
16- Feb |
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Sandhill crane |
17- Feb |
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American wigeon |
19- Feb |
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Redhead |
20- Feb |
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Gadwall |
21- Feb |
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American coot |
22- Feb |
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Northern shoveler |
23- Feb |
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Bufflehead |
23- Feb |
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Snow goose |
24- Feb |
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Lesser scaup |
27- Feb |
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Canvasback |
28- Feb |
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Ring-necked duck |
28- Feb |
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Killdeer |
28- Feb |
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Ruddy duck |
3- Mar |
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Great blue heron |
8- Mar |
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Cinnamon teal |
8- Mar |
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Blue-winged teal |
9- Mar |
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Pied-billed grebe |
10- Mar |
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American white pelican |
16- Mar |
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Wood duck |
16- Mar |
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Greater yellowlegs |
19- Mar |
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Baird's sandpiper |
19- Mar |
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Long-billed dowitcher |
20- Mar |
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Double-crested cormorant |
21- Mar |
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Eastern phoebe |
23- Mar |
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Lesser yellowlegs |
25- Mar |
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Mourning dove |
25- Mar |
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Common snipe |
26- Mar |
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American avocet |
1- Apr |
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Semipalmated sandpiper |
4- Apr |
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Least sandpiper |
4- Apr |
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Western sandpiper |
6- Apr |
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Rough-winged swallow |
6- Apr |
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Pectoral sandpiper |
7- Apr |
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Eared grebe |
7- Apr |
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American bittern |
8- Apr |
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Turkey vulture |
8- Apr |
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Black-crowned night-heron |
9- Apr |
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Swainson's hawk |
9- Apr |
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Yellow-headed blackbird |
9- Apr |
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Great egret |
10- Apr |
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Snowy egret |
10- Apr |
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Snowy plover |
10- Apr |
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Franklin's gull |
11- Apr |
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Wilson's phalarope |
12- Apr |
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Hudsonian godwit |
12- Apr |
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Cattle egret |
12- Apr |
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Black-necked stilt |
12- Apr |
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Burrowing owl |
12- Apr |
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Tree swallow |
12- Apr |
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Long-billed curlew |
13- Apr |
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White-faced ibis |
13- Apr |
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Barn swallow |
13- Apr |
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Marbled godwit |
14- Apr |
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Forster's tern |
14- Apr |
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Stilt sandpiper |
15- Apr |
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Semipalmated plover |
16- Apr |
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American golden-plover |
16- Apr |
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Horned grebe |
16- Apr |
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Little blue heron |
16- Apr |
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Dunlin |
17- Apr |
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Western grebe |
17- Apr |
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Short-billed dowitcher |
18- Apr |
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Osprey |
18- Apr |
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Black-billed magpie |
19- Apr |
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House wren |
19- Apr |
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Willet |
20- Apr |
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Whimbrel |
21- Apr |
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Brown thrasher |
21- Apr |
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Peregrine falcon |
23- Apr |
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Common moorhen |
23- Apr |
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Virginia rail |
24- Apr |
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Sora |
24- Apr |
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Cliff swallow |
24- Apr |
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Piping plover |
25- Apr |
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Spotted sandpiper |
26- Apr |
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Upland sandpiper |
26- Apr |
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Black-bellied plover |
27- Apr |
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Western kingbird |
27- Apr |
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Common yellowthroat |
27- Apr |
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Eastern kingbird |
28- Apr |
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Sanderling |
29- Apr |
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Baltimore oriole |
30- Apr |
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White-rumped sandpiper |
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1- May |
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Solitary sandpiper |
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1- May |
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Red knot |
2- May |
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Buff-breasted sandpiper |
3- May |
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Chimney swift |
3- May |
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Green heron |
4- May |
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Least bittern |
6- May |
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Red-headed woodpecker |
7- May |
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Gray catbird |
7- May |
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Dickcissel |
8- May |
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Ruddy turnstone |
9- May |
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Red-necked phalarope |
9- May |
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Mississippi kite |
9- May |
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Black tern |
12- May |
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Common nighthawk |
12- May |
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Lesser yellowlegs |
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2- Jul |
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Semipalmated sandpiper |
8- Jul |
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Marbled godwit |
8- Jul |
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Western sandpiper |
9- Jul |
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Greater yellowlegs |
10- Jul |
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Long-billed dowitcher |
10- Jul |
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Least sandpiper |
10- Jul |
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Long-billed curlew |
12- Jul |
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Stilt sandpiper |
12- Jul |
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White-rumped sandpiper |
12- Jul |
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Whimbrel |
13- Jul |
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Willet |
17- Jul |
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Baird's sandpiper |
18- Jul |
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Short-billed dowitcher |
21- Jul |
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Pectoral sandpiper |
23- Jul |
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Solitary sandpiper |
23- Jul |
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Semipalmated plover |
27- Jul |
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Ruddy turnstone |
27- Jul |
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Piping plover |
31- Jul |
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Hudsonian godwit |
1- Aug |
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Red knot |
7- Aug |
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Sanderling |
8- Aug |
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Black-bellied plover |
18- Aug |
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Buff-breasted sandpiper |
22- Aug |
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Common snipe |
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6- Sep |
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Dunlin |
8- Sep |
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American golden-plover |
14- Sep |
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Greater white-fronted goose |
24- Sep |
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Sandhill crane |
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1- Oct |
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Whooping crane |
22- Oct |
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Bald eagle |
19- Nov |
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