Tree Swallow

Tachycineta bicolor

Tree Swallow photographed by Mark Curtis
June 16, 2026

When to look

Reported most in May, across 7.6M open records.

Records by month. January, 121,989 records. February, 152,238 records. March, 450,113 records. April, 1,553,706 records. May, 2,443,739 records. June, 1,228,774 records. July, 665,823 records. August, 402,290 records. September, 222,595 records. October, 202,635 records. November, 86,335 records. December, 77,868 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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