Boreal Songbird Initiative : Migration Map


	Interactive Migration Map

    North America’s Boreal Forest
    A Global Treasure and Haven for Birds
  Click a bird to view individual routes

	© Kevin T. Karlson
	Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata
	© Lang Elliot
	Bay-breasted Warbler Dendroica castanea
	© John Kormendy
	Cape May Warbler Dendroica tigrina
	© Ralph Paonessa
	Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
	© Ralph Paonessa
	Smith's Longspur Calcarius pictus

		© Kevin T. Karlson
		Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
		© Ralph Paonessa
		Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica
		© USFWS
		Whooping Crane Grus americana
		© Ducks Unlimited
		Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica

	Stretching from Alaska across Canada, the vast Boreal Forest is one of the largest unspoiled forest ecosystems remaining on Earth. Many of the birds that migrate through or winter in our yards and neighborhoods breed in North American Boreal Forest.
		Approximately 327 bird species regularly occur in the Boreal – that’s nearly 50% of the species found in the U.S. and Canada! And 90% of those species migrate to or through the Continental U.S. for the winter.
		Up to 3 billion warblers, thrushes, sparrows, flycatchers, hawks and other land birds breed in the Boreal and up to 5 billion - adults and their new young - migrate south from the Boreal each fall. Of these almost 1 billion stay in the U.S. for the winter.
		30% of North America's landbirds (3 billion) 40% of North America's waterfowl (26 million) and 30% of its shorebirds (seven million) nest in the wetlands of the Boreal Forest.

Map created by eNature/NWF supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts

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Map created by eNature/NWF and supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts

Banner photo credit: CPAWS Wildlands League