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href="/wiki/Waterfowl" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterfowl">Waterfowl</a> flyways in the United States. <br /> The Atlantic Flyway is in violet</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Atlantic Flyway</b> is a major north-south <a href="/wiki/Flyway" title="Flyway">flyway</a> for <a href="/wiki/Migratory_birds" class="mw-redirect" title="Migratory birds">migratory birds</a> in North America. The route generally starts in Greenland, then follows the Atlantic coast of Canada, then south down the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">Atlantic Coast</a> of the United States to the tropical areas of South America and the Caribbean.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Every year, migratory birds travel up and down this route following food sources, heading to breeding grounds, or traveling to overwintering sites.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This route is used by birds typically because no mountains block most of this path, though birds cross the <a href="/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains" title="Appalachian Mountains">Appalachian Mountains</a> to join the flyway. Good sources of water, food, and cover exist over its entire length. The warm climates found in the southern portion of the region are home to many northern birds in winter, while in summer the region is home to many bird species from <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Land located within the Atlantic Flyway is the most densely populated land out of the four major flyways crossing the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_journey">The journey</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlantic_Flyway&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The journey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Duck" title="Duck">Ducks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Goose" title="Goose">geese</a> are born in the <a href="/wiki/Tundra" title="Tundra">tundra</a> of <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>, and fly south in autumn to <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>'s famous <a href="/wiki/Back_Bay_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge">Back Bay</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/James_River" title="James River">James River</a>, and then move southward through <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Winter" title="Winter">winter</a>. Northeast and northwest Florida get a great number of teal and divers as the winter progresses. In the northeastern states the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Lawrence River">Saint Lawrence River</a>, the coast of <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>, Long island harbors, <a href="/wiki/Barnegat_Bay" title="Barnegat Bay">Barnegat Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Egg_Harbor" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Egg Harbor">Great Egg Harbor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Little_Egg_Harbor" title="Little Egg Harbor">Little Egg Harbor</a>, Absecon Bay, <a href="/wiki/Delaware_Bay" title="Delaware Bay">Delaware Bay</a>, Chesapeake Bay, <a href="/wiki/Virginia%27s_Eastern_Shore" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia's Eastern Shore">Virginia's Eastern Shore</a> and Back Bays saw presidents and captains of great industry spend part of their winters at their wildfowling clubs. In South Carolina there was <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_South_Carolina" title="Georgetown, South Carolina">Georgetown's</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston's</a> old <a href="/wiki/Rice_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Rice field">rice fields</a>, and backcountry marshes and freshwater rivers and lakes that continued to draw ducks in great numbers until the <a href="/wiki/Santee_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Santee National Wildlife Refuge">Santee National Wildlife Refuge</a> stopped feeding the ducks in the winter months of the 1980s due to the economy and changes in National Wildlife Refuge policy across the nation. In the 1960s to the mid-1980s the upper Santee swamp's upper <a href="/wiki/Lake_Marion_(South_Carolina)" title="Lake Marion (South Carolina)">Lake Marion</a> region used to winter over 150,000 mallards each and every winter's duck count.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_locations">Notable locations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlantic_Flyway&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notable locations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Along the Atlantic Flyway, there are many key sites that migratory birds use to gather to breed, feed, or rest for certain periods. Some species may remain in these rest stops for the entire season.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notable locations include: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canada">Canada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlantic_Flyway&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Plain_of_the_Koukdjuak" title="Great Plain of the Koukdjuak">Great Plain of the Koukdjuak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepody_Bay" title="Shepody Bay">Shepody Bay</a> West, <a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick" title="New Brunswick">New Brunswick</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlantic_Flyway&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_footnotes_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-More_footnotes_needed" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/40px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/60px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/80px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section includes a list of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#General_references" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">general references</a>, but <b>it lacks sufficient corresponding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Inline_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">inline citations</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Reliability" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability">improve</a> this section by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:When_to_cite" title="Wikipedia:When to cite">introducing</a> more precise citations.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acadia_National_Park" title="Acadia National Park">Acadia National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>. The park preserves about half of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Desert_Island" title="Mount Desert Island">Mount Desert Island</a>, many adjacent smaller islands, and part of the <a href="/wiki/Schoodic_Peninsula" title="Schoodic Peninsula">Schoodic Peninsula</a> on the coast of Maine. A total of 215 bird species, including migratory birds, are present at some time during the year. An additional 116 species are possibly present but unconfirmed, making a total of 331 potential species.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assateague_Island_National_Seashore" title="Assateague Island National Seashore">Assateague Island National Seashore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>. Protected area on a long barrier island off the coast of Maryland and Virginia. It is known for its Atlantic beaches and for trails that wind through marshland, dunes and pine forest. In the south, <a href="/wiki/Chincoteague_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge">Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge</a> is home to wild <a href="/wiki/Chincoteague_Pony" class="mw-redirect" title="Chincoteague Pony">Chincoteague ponies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bald_eagle" title="Bald eagle">bald eagles</a> and thousands of migratory seabirds.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Back_Bay_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge">Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia's</a> <a href="/wiki/Outer_Banks" title="Outer Banks">Outer Banks</a>. As part of Virginia's Outer Banks, the refuge's barrier islands feature large sand dunes, maritime forests, freshwater marshes, ponds, ocean beaches, and large impoundments for wintering wildfowl.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackwater_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge">Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland's</a> <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Shore_of_Maryland" title="Eastern Shore of Maryland">Eastern Shore</a>. The refuge includes over 30,000 acres (120 km<sup>2</sup>) of <a href="/wiki/Tidal_marsh" title="Tidal marsh">tidal marsh</a>, managed freshwater wetlands, mixed hardwood and <a href="/wiki/Pinus_taeda" title="Pinus taeda">loblolly pine</a> forests, and croplands.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It hosts over 250 bird species and serves as an important resting and feeding site for migrating and wintering waterfowl,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including more than 35,000 <a href="/wiki/Canada_goose" title="Canada goose">Canada geese</a> and 15,000 ducks using the Atlantic Flyway during the fall migration.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The refuge is home to one of the highest concentrations of nesting bald eagles on the Atlantic coast.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod_National_Seashore" title="Cape Cod National Seashore">Cape Cod National Seashore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. Migratory birds can be found along the 40 miles of public beach and sand dunes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Hatteras_National_Seashore" title="Cape Hatteras National Seashore">Cape Hatteras National Seashore</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>. Cape Hatteras is a wind-swept barrier islands along the North Carolina coast, much of it protected from development. The 75-miles of towering sand dunes, marsh, and forests provide great bird viewing year-round.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Romain_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge">Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>. Cape Romain features over 293 species of birds recorded on the refuge, birdwatching opportunities are excellent year-round. During spring and fall, migratory shorebirds, songbirds and raptors move through the refuge.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delaware_Bay" title="Delaware Bay">Delaware Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a>. This massive bay has been recognized as a globally important bird area. Foremost among these bird-watching paradises is <a href="/wiki/Bombay_Hook_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge">Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge</a> along the Delaware Bay, recognized as one of America's Top 100 “Important Birding Areas” by the <a href="/wiki/American_Bird_Conservancy" title="American Bird Conservancy">American Bird Conservancy</a>. Just to the north in the middle of the Delaware River, <a href="/wiki/Pea_Patch_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Pea Patch Island">Pea Patch Island</a> is home to one of the largest and most diverse heronries on the East Coast, boasting nesting pairs of <a href="/wiki/Great_blue_heron" title="Great blue heron">great blue herons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_egret" title="Great egret">great egrets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snowy_egret" title="Snowy egret">snowy egrets</a>, and many more colorful varieties.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jekyll_Island" title="Jekyll Island">Jekyll Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>. Habitat types include salt marsh, sand dune/beach, maritime forest, and tidal creeks, which host many different species of bird.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mackay_Island_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge">Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>. The refuge is strategically located along the Atlantic Flyway, making it an important wintering area for ducks, geese, and tundra swans. At times, flocks of over 12,000 snow geese may be observed on the refuge after their arrival in November.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merritt_Island_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge">Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>. Merritt Island NWR is one of the top birding sites along the Florida Atlantic coast. In winter, waterfowl and <a href="/wiki/American_coot" title="American coot">American Coots</a> are abundant here; this is also a good site for <a href="/wiki/Northern_pintail" title="Northern pintail">northern pintails</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_wigeon" title="Eurasian wigeon">Eurasian wigeons</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cinnamon_teal" title="Cinnamon teal">cinnamon teal</a>. One of the most interesting parts of the refuge is a one-way driving loop. The Blackpoint Wildlife Drive features wading birds, waterfowl, shorebirds, gulls, <a href="/wiki/Tern" title="Tern">terns</a>, raptors, <a href="/wiki/American_white_pelican" title="American white pelican">American white pelicans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Brown_pelican" title="Brown pelican">brown pelicans</a>, among others.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montezuma_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge">Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>. The 10,004-acre (40.48 km<sup>2</sup>) preserve is composed of swamps, pools and channels and is a stopping point for many migratory marsh and water birds including the great blue heron, <a href="/wiki/Green_heron" title="Green heron">green heron</a>, great egret, <a href="/wiki/Black-crowned_night_heron" title="Black-crowned night heron">black-crowned night heron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_rail" title="Virginia rail">Virginia rail</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sora_(bird)" title="Sora (bird)">sora</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bittern" title="Bittern">bitterns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Common_moorhen" title="Common moorhen">common moorhen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pied-billed_grebe" title="Pied-billed grebe">pied-billed grebes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dry_Tortugas_National_Park" title="Dry Tortugas National Park">Dry Tortugas National Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>. Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys. The archipelago's coral reefs are the least disturbed of the Florida Keys reefs. The park is noted for abundant sea life, tropical bird breeding grounds, colorful coral reefs, and shipwrecks and sunken treasures. The Dry Tortugas provide the only regular nesting site for <a href="/wiki/Sooty_tern" title="Sooty tern">sooty terns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Masked_booby" title="Masked booby">masked boobies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brown_noddy" title="Brown noddy">brown noddies</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Magnificent_frigatebird" title="Magnificent frigatebird">magnificent frigatebirds</a> in the continental U.S. For birders, spring migration is the main attraction in the Tortugas, offering an alluring mix of breeding rarities and exhausted migrants after traveling nonstop over the Gulf of Mexico. During peak migration, this can lead to visitors seeing a mind-boggling variety of birds, including prized species like <a href="/wiki/Hooded_warbler" title="Hooded warbler">hooded warblers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yellow-throated_vireo" title="Yellow-throated vireo">yellow-throated vireos</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Summer_tanager" title="Summer tanager">summer tanagers</a>. In addition to these migrants, Caribbean specialties are also on the menu, including the <a href="/wiki/White-tailed_tropicbird" title="White-tailed tropicbird">white-tailed tropicbird</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antillean_nighthawk" title="Antillean nighthawk">Antillean nighthawk</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Black_noddy" title="Black noddy">black noddy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J.N._%22Ding%22_Darling_National_Wildlife_Refuge" class="mw-redirect" title="J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge">J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>. Abundance of shorebirds, waterfowl, wading birds, <a href="/wiki/Passerine" title="Passerine">passerines</a> and raptors. Alligators can be seen on cold mornings basking in the sun. Neo-tropical migratory birds are present and start migrating through March. Marsh drawdown coincides with shorebird migration. Osprey nesting peaks in March.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_flyways">Other flyways</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlantic_Flyway&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other flyways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The other primary migration routes for North American birds include the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Flyway" title="Mississippi Flyway">Mississippi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_Flyway" title="Central Flyway">Central</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Flyway" title="Pacific Flyway">Pacific Flyways</a>. </p><p>There is an <a href="/wiki/East_Atlantic_Flyway" title="East Atlantic Flyway">East Atlantic Flyway</a> in Europe,<sup id="cite_ref-eur_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eur-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and one in the Atlantic Ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Atlantic_Flyway&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.birdnature.com/north-american-migration-flyways/">"North American Migration Flyways"</a>. <i>www.birdnature.com</i>. 2021-05-11<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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