![]() ![]() This article gives you identification information and photos to help you identify and attract more of the common backyard birds that you can spot in Michigan. They are the birds that appear most frequently on state checklists submitted by bird watchers on ebird. These are the most common backyard birds in Michigan that may visit your lawn or feeders. Also, get a free ID chart to print with the most common backyard birds in Michigan.īackyard birds in Michigan all year: Black-capped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, American Goldfinch, American Crow, Downy Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, European Starling, Tufted Titmouse, House Sparrow, Northern Flicker, House Finch, Hairy Woodpecker, Eastern Bluebirdīackyard birds in Michigan in summer: American Robin, Mourning Dove, Red-winged Blackbird, Song Sparrow, Common Grackle, Common Yellowthroat, Gray Catbird, Barn Swallow, Eastern Kingbird, Yellow Warbler, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Oriole, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Chipping Sparrow, Cedar Waxwingīackyard birds in Michigan in winter: Dark-eyed Juncoīackyard birds in Michigan during migration: White-throated Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler Well, this guide will help you to find out how to identify these birds by sight and sound and what time of year you can spot them in Michigan. ![]() Jonathan Schechter is the Nature Education Writer for Oakland County Government and blogs weekly about nature’s way, trails, and wildlife on the Wilder Side of Oakland County.įor the latest county news and events, visit our website and follow along with us using #OaklandCounty on our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn pages.Have you wondered what those birds are that are visiting your backyard in Michigan? It won’t take long, for whether your journey is in an urban area, on the “ Wilder Side of Oakland County” or anywhere else in our country, one fact remains the same the sky and billboards belong to the Red-Tailed Hawk. Watch your speed, watch for hawks, and make your road trip a “road raptor patrol” for the children in your car. Billboards are now more than the nationwide movie-set hiding places for police officers that run radar they remain the perfect perches for our magnificent Red-tailed Hawks to wait for meaty meals on the move. Spring has arrived and the roads will soon be busy with holiday travelers, spring break celebrants, and spontaneous road trips. This hawk extraction video is courtesy of the Milford Massachusetts Police. On rare occasions, fast flying prey pursuit and swooping low, ends poorly for the hawk as was the case in Milford, Massachusetts in late February when a Red-tailed Hawk winged in front of a car and ended up trapped in the grill. Hawks in urbanized areas are well accustomed to the flow of traffic and noise of vehicles, but if a driver pulls to the side for a closer look they fly off. ![]() Bonding with the hawk is a necessity, and once accomplished the pair shares mutual attraction and loyalty. Regulated falconry flourishes today, and the bird of choice for many is the Red-tailed Hawk. In the far distant past however, falconry was not used as a sport or as a pastime, but mainly as a means to catch food for the family. Sometimes the bird of prey would be a falcon. But the history of birds of prey, and the way humans interacted with them go back thousands of years to the sport of falconry.įalconry is the sport of using raptors to hunt wild quarry in natural habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. Those are my first recollections of any bird of prey. I vaguely remember the horror of seeing some hanging dead on fences. My dad told me that the neighbors called them, chicken hawks. Red-tails soared above the meadow and I fell in love with their sharp cry. I was a five or six-year-old nature-hungry kid running barefoot through the meadow that led to a musty barn full of magical things, and then it was on to my favorite forbidden destination: “grandma’s shack”. I first become aware of Red-tailed Hawks in rural Connecticut. ![]()
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