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The Biggest Week in American Birding

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The BWIAB is a 10-day birding festival in "The Warbler Capital of the World", brought to you by Black Swamp Bird Observatory. Follow for live birding updates from our guides! biggestweekinamericanbirding.com

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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
At least 2 White-rumped Sandpipers feeding where the Caspian Terns hangout at Howard Marsh Metropark - Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Cerulean Warbler - Magee Marsh west end in parking lot across for porta johns near orange barrel- Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Common Nighthawk sitting in parking lot of Magee - west end near porta johns. Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Metzger is still very birdy! Lots of singing warblers in the woodlot, both cuckoos, and some fun migrants like Red-headed Woodpecker and Black-bellied Plovers going by the count. Signing off for BWIAB 2026. - Patrick Maurice
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Alder flycatcher calling from the northeast aspect of the big loop at Magee Marsh - Cassidy Ficker
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Redstarts, Chestnut-sided, and Bay-breasted Warblers are dominating the MM boardwalk this morning. Canada Warbler between 9 & 10. Alder Flycatchers scattered throughout west end. Several Philly Vireos moving near small loop at west end.
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Black-billed Cuckoo showing well in Metzger parking lot - Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Glossy Ibis and King Rails continue at Metzger - Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ruddy Turnstone - Inland beach at MBSP - Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Look up! Common Nighthawks are feeding all along the lakefront!
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher at 19B at Magee. - Patrick
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Keep an eye out for those skulkers on the Magee boardwalk! Just had an Ovenbird and Gray-cheeked Thrush on the ground at #16. - Patrick Maurice
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Nice looks at a Philly Vireo at #2 on the Magee boardwalk. -Patrick Maurice
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Nice looks at a Common Nighthawk flying around & feasting on insects high in the sky - seen from the Magee Marsh parking lot (west side). - Erik Bruhnke/VENT
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Metzger has been productive with visuals of two Mourning Warblers along with several Canada, Wilson’s Blackpoll, etc. - Ethan Kistler/WINGS
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Cerulean Warbler continuing just outside of Secor Metropark’s Lone Oak Area parking lot along Tupelo Way. Singing incessantly - Nate Koszycki
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
At least two Mourning Warblers on the West Beach of Magee Marsh, one right near the eastern path to the Estuary Trail and one on the western edge -SK
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Several Wilson’s Phalaropes, Semipalmated Plovers, etc behind Barnside Creamery but a scope is necessary and you need elevation by standing on the concrete walls. - Ethan Kistler/WINGS
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Mourning Warbler being seen and heard well at Sheldon Marsh approximately half way from parking area to porta potty. - Janice & Trey
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Magee Boardwalk- Mourning Warbler singing, Canada Warbler up close. Marker 14 - Joshua Vardous
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
White-rumped Sandpiper near the Crane Creek bridge (41.6179496, -83.2398368) with a group of Dunlin in Ottawa Wildlife Drive - Ryan S and Eliana F
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Magee Boardwalk..Golden-winged Warbler, Canada, Wilson’s, Black-throated-blue, Chestnut-sided, Prothonotary at marker 8 -Joshua Vardous
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Very birdy on the trails behind the Magee Visitor Center! Just had a Black-billed Cuckoo right across the bridge and directly behind the visitor center. A couple Canada Warblers and Broad-winged Hawks overhead! - Patrick, Erik, and Billie
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Quick glimpse of WILSON’S PHALAROPE at Howard Marsh (east) in the cattails where the Caspian Terns have been hanging out. (41.6426697, -83.2646329) Currently NOT in view. Seen 11:05am. Nicole F. & Dan E.
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Mourning Warbler - singing and showing well for a minute in parking lot of Oak Openings Lodge. Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Seven Broad-winged Hawks moving west over East end of Cabin Road - Maumee Bay State Park. Very very high. David Simpson Big Day Van 6.
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sedge Wren singing away at Stange Prairie platform with Swamp Sparrows, Common Yellowthroat. Also Willow Flycatcher, Indigo Buntings, a Sandhill Crane in the distance, and flyover American White Pelicans. -Joshua Vardous
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Female Cerulean at Metzger wood lot. -Killian Sullivan
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Singing Cerulean Warbler silver trail Oak Openings - (41.5427296, -83.8473072) - Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Female Mourning Warbler being very skulky on the east side of the path at the following coordinates from the Ottawa NWR woodlot: (41.6094127, -83.2066458) -Andrew Marden and Nathan Pieplow
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Singing male Canada warbler along with a female Canada at the Mallard Club parking lot on the corner of Decant Road, 9:53am. - Nicole F. & Dan E.
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Kentucky Warbler singing on Silver Trail at Oak Openings- (41.5415866, -83.8464382)- Acadian Flycatcher also singing. Jeremy Dominguez (Go Birding Nature Tours)
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Please be very cautious when driving the road into Magee Marsh. There are a lot of turtles crossing the road today.
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Hooded Warbler, Black-billed Cuckoo and a couple Mourning Warblers at Pipe Creek. Trey McCuen and Janice Travis
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Singing Canada Warbler at Pearson Lot 3, and singing Gray-cheeked Thrush, Wood Thrush, Swainson's Thrush, and Veery on the Wood Thrush trail behind the lot. -SK
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Connecticut Warbler on the path from the beach to estuary trail. - Jamie Cunningham
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Mourning Warbler popping up every few minutes at marker 15 at Magee Boardwalk -Jack Sullivan
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
At least two Mourning Warblers singing and briefly viewed at Magee between #10 spur and the big loop. - Ethan Kistler/WING
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Very cooperative Henslow’s Sparrow at Irwin Prairie on the east side of Irwin Road. Singing in the open not far off boardwalk. -ER/DH
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
At Ottawa Woodlot: Connecticut Warbler and Yellow-breasted Chat heard (41.6091144, -83.2036059). Also Philadelphia Vireo, Blackpoll, Wilson’s, Bay-breasted, Chestnut-sided warblers, and more - Ryan S and Eliana F
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Philadelphia Vireo showing very well near #2 of Magee boardwalk at the end of the spur. - Ethan Kistler/WINGS
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Multiple Black Terns and a good variety of warblers from Metzger Marsh. All viewed from the dike - Tyler F, Killian S, Kevin P and Gautam A
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Summer Tanager along with variety of warblers (including Blackpoll, Blackburnian, Tennessee, Magnolia, and more!) in the Metzger Marsh parking lot - Cassidy + Mollie Ficker, James, David
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Olive-sided Flycatcher near the east end of the Magee Boardwalk! Sighted towards the middle of the marsh on a tall dead tree! -Michael Onel
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Multiple Nighthawks above the Maumee Lodge parking lots.
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Brief looks at a male Mourning Warbler at Magee Marsh boardwalk, at #16 -SK
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Black-billed Cuckoo with 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos at Metzger in the trees at the back of the parking lot here: (41.6505498, -83.2377337) - Patrick Maurice
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Big crowd watching a female Cerulean Warbler at Metzger! She’s in the trees just before the parking lot. - Patrick Maurice
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Brief looks at Mourning Warbler, okay looks at 2 Canada Warblers, great but brief looks at a Blue-winged Warbler west end of west beach at Magee. 5:15 -ER/JK 41.63200° N, 83.19701° W
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The Biggest Week in American Birding @biggestweekbirding.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Olive-sided Flycatcher flycatching from the dead treetops around (41.6407732, -83.4395538) at Pearson Metropark. - Ethan Kistler/WINGS
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