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In this short post we highlight tonight’s migration forecast in the West. Conditions are favorable for movements from the Desert Southwest north and west along the Pacific Coast into Washington state.

Would you like more information on ways to use and to understand new BirdCast migration monitoring tools for spring 2018? Read on!

BirdCast tracks migration from many angles, including with interactive maps that can give us a bird’s-eye view of migration in progress. Check out arrivals of waves of Purple Martins.

With regular arrivals of spring migrants occurring daily, or nearly so, throughout the US, Team BirdCast returns with species on the move spotlights. This week, we highlight some on-time, early and late arrivals in the BirdCast West region.

Light, inbound trans-Gulf migration over Texas and Louisiana was visible in the Live Migration Map.

Team BirdCast highlights some relationships between migration and weather that could explain why our migration models predict migration in certain areas and not in others. Let’s take a quick look at the migration forecast for the night of 28-29 March 2018.

For our inaugural automated migration forecast and live migration map analysis post, let’s take a quick look to see how the maps compare!

BirdCast has been working toward automatically predicting and analyzing bird migration across the continental US, and we now unveil automated forecast maps and live migration maps. Welcome to the future of migration monitoring, please explore the new visuals and tune in frequently for discussion about movements!

Birders in northeastern North America should watch for Northern Lapwing, among other European vagrants, as low pressure over the North Atlantic couples with easterly flow associated with the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation and cold, snowy conditions in western Europe.

With an unusual period of cold and snowy weather in western Europe, trans Atlantic movements of species like Northern Lapwing are possible. In keeping with previous discussions we have posted about this topic, BirdCast briefly discusses the potential for European vagrants to arrive in North America.

Local light to moderate flights were scattered across the West and feature numerous waterfowl in this late season period, while the pulses of moderate flights in the Great Plains and Southeast featured many species of waterfowl, Turkey Vulture, Bonaparte’s Gull, Eastern Bluebird, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Cedar Waxwing, and Dark-eyed Junco. Please join us throughout the winter for updates and alerts in advance of the first regular spring season forecasts and analyses in March 2018.

Continental Summary Local light to moderate flights were scattered across the West and feature numerous waterfowl in this late season period, while the pulses of moderate flights in the Great Plains and Southeast featured many species of waterfowl, Turkey Vulture,…