Migratory birds in the US: Photos capture birds before, after migration

Snow Geese by the tens of thousands lift off and settle back down in the Knox-Marsellus Marsh during the annual spring bird migration at the Montezuma Wetlands Complex in the town of Tyre, Seneca County, Monday, March 9, 2020. During a roughly two week stretch, hundreds of thousands of the geese will migrate from their winter homes in the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, stopping in Montezuma for rest and food, before continuing on to their summer nesting home in the Hudson Bay region in the Canadian arctic.

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Double-crested Cormorants sit on a log in the reservoir at Eagle Creek Park, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019.

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A Great Blue Heron is surrounded by peaceful water and pastel reflections at Eagle Creek Park, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019.

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A smaller flock of snow geese lift off from a flooded corn field along Route 31 during the annual spring bird migration at the Montezuma Wetlands Complex.

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Marbled godwits stand at attention at Bowditch Point Park on Fort Myers Beach on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. The birds, along with hundreds of other shorebirds that included, gulls, terns, skimmers, pelicans and other sand pipers were congregated near the dredge that is dredging the pass. Seconds after this photo was taken, tbe birds were disturbed by a jogger and his unleashed dog. Some shorebirds fly long distances as they migrate, disturbing them can cause them to waste much needed energy that they use to migrate. Walking

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Sandhill Cranes, like this one at Kensington Metropark, is one of the many migrating bird species that birdwatchers can enjoy in the metro Detroit area during the fall migration according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

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American white pelicans make their way to the water as a flock of ring-billed seagulls fly overhead on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, at Lake Red Rock near Pella. The pelicans, which can weigh up to 30 pounds and have a 10-foot wingspan, are found throughout the Midwest during the summer months before migrating south during the winter.

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A sandhill crane leaps in the air and furrows it’s feathers at a squabbling group cranes at the UF/IFAS cow pastures at the Beef Teaching Unit off SW 23rs Street, in Gainesville Dec. 2, 2021. As the cold weather starts in the North, the sandhill cranes annually migrate South through Gainesville and Paynes Prairie. The sandhill’s honk like call is a familiar sound from the skies that locals associate with the end of Fall and beginning of Winter.

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A flock of migrating Black Ibis are seen resting in Rancho San Rafael Region Park in Reno on May 22, 2021.

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A migrating Saw-Whet owl peeks out from behind a tree in Owl Woods in Greece, NY Thursday, March 25, 2021.

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A female painted bunting flits through the foliage at Lakes Park on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. It was seen with a host of other migrating birds including a Northern parula, a blue-headed vireo and male painted buntings.