United States · Michigan
Whitefish Point
337 species and 410,496 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May and September, with up to 272 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalis
Northern RavenCorvus corax
RedpollAcanthis flammea
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
Pine SiskinSpinus pinus
Common LoonGavia immer
Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescensSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 337 species recorded here
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- American Goshawk Astur atricapillus
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Boreal Chickadee Poecile hudsonicus
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Harris's Sparrow Zonotrichia querula
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Spruce Grouse Canachites canadensis
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Lazuli Bunting Passerina amoena
- Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
- Smith's Longspur Calcarius pictus
- Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Sagebrush Sparrow Artemisiospiza nevadensis
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Canada Jay Perisoreus canadensis
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Chestnut-collared Longspur Calcarius ornatus
- Sprague's Pipit Anthus spragueii
- Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
- Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Lark Bunting Calamospiza melanocorys
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Lewis's Woodpecker Melanerpes lewis
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Inca Dove Columbina inca
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii
- Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
- Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis
- Sage Thrasher Oreoscoptes montanus
- Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- King Eider Somateria spectabilis
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia
- Red Tanager Piranga flava
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Common Eider Somateria mollissima
- Brewer's Sparrow Spizella breweri
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- American Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides dorsalis
- Lucy's Warbler Leiothlypis luciae
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana
- Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus
- Ross's Goose Anser rossii
- Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
- Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Thick-billed Longspur Rhynchophanes mccownii
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Eurasian Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Whitefish Point?
May and September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 272 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Whitefish Point?
337 species, from 410,496 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Whitefish Point in November?
The most recorded in November: Black-capped Chickadee, American Herring Gull, Blue Jay, Snow Bunting and Northern Raven.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.