Bird Watchers Watch BirdCast
If you want to be wowed by the sheer numbers of birds crossing Travis County en route to their breeding grounds, check out Cornell Lab’s BirdCast Migration Dashboard.
From March 1, 2026 through the night of April 28, 2026 over 58 million birds have completely crossed Travis County, with 3.7 million crossing on the night of April 28 alone. The BirdCast tracking will continue through June 15.
Generally, songbirds, which migrate at night, will stop, feed and rest starting around sunrise, and then resume migration 30-45 minutes after sunset. BirdCast can answer your questions like what is the altitude of birds in flight, and what species in particular are on the move, based on reported observations in a huge database called eBird…