Canada is a huge country with a variety of habitats, each of which have their birding specialties. The following pages give more information about birding in each province or territory, including a list of featured birds, rare bird alert phone numbers and much more.
Provincial Bird of British Columbia – Stellar’s Jay
Provincial Bird of Alberta – Great-horned Owl
Provincial Bird of Saskatchewan – Sharp-tailed Grouse
Provincial Bird of Manitoba – Great-grey Owl
Provincial Bird of Ontario – Common Loon
Provincial Bird of Quebec – Snowy Owl
Provincial Bird of Newfoundland and Labrador – Atlantic Puffin
Provincial Bird of New Brunswick – Black-capped Chickadee
Provincial Bird of Nova Scotia -Osprey
Provincial Bird of Prince Edward Island – Blue Jay
Territorial Bird of the Yukon – Common Raven
Territorial Bird of the Northwest Territories – Gyrfalcon
Territorial Bird of Nunavut – Rock Ptarmigan
Sounds like you had an early Baltimore Oriole visiting. They’re the only orange and black birds I know of in Canada, but check out this page to make sure http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Baltimore_Oriole/id
saw a different kind of bird today at 4:00pm.
We live near Creston, BC.
The bird was orange and black, had a black beak, not short, head was striped and down the neck, with bright orange and black, speckled with orange and black, cannot find a picture of it.
Do you know what kind of bird it would be?