17 April 2024
The winds over Pittsburgh had been favorable ultimate evening and the birds had been nervous to go north. There was once top migration over southwestern PA and BirdCast tells the story on their new Migration Dashboard.
Since 2017 we’ve been checking BirdCast for are living migration maps and forecasts. This yr they’ve supplemented the maps with a Migration Dashboard that gives a wealth of county-by-county data together with anticipated species every evening.
Let’s check out this morning’s dashboard for Allegheny County, PA.
As of five:00am these days, greater than one million and a part birds had flown over Pittsburgh however they had been slowing down. Are living site visitors was once sparser (50,700 birds in flight), they had been transferring extra slowly (12 mph), they usually had been shedding altitude (1,400 ft). That is customary; they are going to land ahead of break of day.
The depend of birds peaked at the hours of darkness (graph on left). It was once a in point of fact excellent evening for April (graph at proper.)
You’ll be able to see an extra explanation why the numbers delivered to 5:00am by means of evaluating those two Are living Migration maps. At 1:40am the map in Pittsburgh is brilliant yellow with migrants however a gloomy hollow (no process) develops in Ohio and West Virginia at 5:00am. Birds stopped flying there as it was once raining forward of a chilly entrance.
screenshots of BirdCast Are living maps on 17 April 2024, 1:40am and 5:00am
Who migrated over Pittsburgh ultimate evening? The Dashboard displays 14 anticipated species. (It is a screenshot. Discuss with Allegheny County’s Dashboard and scroll down to peer the remainder of the checklist).
I haven’t noticed a area wren, yellow warbler or brown thrasher but this yr …
Did any of them land in Pittsburgh this morning? It’s arduous to mention. I’ll simply have to move birding to determine.
In the meantime take a look at the BirdCast Migration Dashboard in your county.
(credit are within the captions. Click on the caption hyperlinks to peer the originals)