THE Warbler Tour: Birding 3 States for 30+ Warblers

Spring migration in the eastern United States is an avian phenomenon that draws people from all over the World. Undoubtedly the main attraction among the hordes of migrants are the eastern warblers, and this tour has been designed to look for them all. It is the ultimate one-stop-shop for warblers, while picking up lots of other migrant birds along the way. The tour starts in the south, where the state of Kentucky will offer up some of the southern warblers often missed at sites in the north, like Swainson’s, Kentucky, Hooded, and Worm-eating. Moving north into southern Ohio, Yellow-throated, Prairie, and Cerulean Warblers, and Yellow-breasted Chat are shoe-ins with a visit to Shawnee State Forest. Continuing north, the tour will have an extended stay at the so-called Warbler Capital of North America, Magee Marsh, where at this time of year 20+ warbler days are commonplace. No warbler tour would be complete without the rarest of them all, Kirtland’s Warbler, which we stand a very good chance to see on their breeding grounds, and we will also visit Michigan’s own migration Mecca, Tawas Point.