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The southern half of the U.S. continues to stack the deck with new migrants
National Overview With this cold-warm-stationary front draped across the country, the bulk of heavy migration east of the Rockies continues to be concentrated in the southern half of the U.S. Heavy trans-Gulf and circum-Gulf migration continued from yesterday afternoon through early this morning across the entire Gulf Coast from Texas to the western Florida panhandle. […]
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Birds pouring into the south with some movement up through the Plains and Midwest
National Overview The big story for last night lies along the Gulf Coast, so I’m just sum that up in a few words before moving on: GET READY. With this latest trans-Gulf and circum-Gulf flight we should expect many new Neotropical migrants to be making their way into the continental U.S. which will eventually mean […]
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Getting deep into migration
National Overview There’s a lot of action going on right now as a series of low pressure systems and associated fronts march across the U.S. Precipitation in the west seems to be restricting migration for the time being, while southerly flow up the middle of the country has opened the floodgates for Trans-Gulf and Circum-Gulf […]
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Heavy migration into the Gulf states and up the Central Flyway!
National Overview Wow! So as we know from the various record early arrivals over the last month, some birds have clearly jumped the gun in response to the anomalously warm weather coupled with a series of fronts setting up strong SW winds across the Gulf of Mexico. Many, if not most, of these individuals were […]
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Migration to our west, but little overhead
National Overview Optimal migration conditions continued for the Pacific coast and Southwestern US, as well as the Central Flyway just east of the Rockies. Otherwise unfavorable northwest winds over much of the rest of the country, or very unstable weather in the Northeast, appear to have shut down migration everywhere else. See the bottom of […]