Canadian Birds

This list of Canadian birds does not include Rare/Accidental or Extirpated species, but we have included Introduced Species that now make our country home. This page makes a great checklist for the ambitious bird watcher!

• Albatross – black-footed, short-tailed
• Auklet – Cassin’s, rhinoceros, parakeet
• Avocet – American

• Bittern – American, least
• Blackbird – Brewer’s, red-winged, rusty, yellow-headed
• Bluebird – eastern, mountain, western
• Bobolink
• Bunting – indigo, lark, lazuli, snow
• Bushtit

• Cardinal – northern
• Catbird – grey
• Chat – yellow-breasted
• Chickadee – black-capped, boreal, chestnut-backed, mountain
• Chuck-will’s widow
• Coot – American
• Cormorant – Brandt’s, double-crested, great, pelagic
• Cowbird – brown-headed
• Crane – sandhill, whooping
• Creeper – brown
• Crossbill – red, white-winged
• Crows- American, northwestern
• Cuckoo – black-billed, yellow-billed
• Curlew – long-billed, Eskimo (likely extinct)

• Dickcissel
• Dipper – American
• Dove – mourning, rock. Eurasian-collared
• Dovekie
• Dowitcher – long-billed, short-billed
• Duck – American black, bufflehead, canvasback, common eider, king eider, gadwall, harlequin, long-tailed, mallard, northern pintail, redhead, ring-necked, ruddy, northern shoveler, wood
• Dunlin

• Eagle – bald, golden
• Egret – great, snowy, cattle

• Falcon – peregrine, prairie
• Finch – Cassin’s, grey-crowned rosy, house, purple
• Flicker – northern
• Flycatcher – Acadian, alder, cordilleran, dusky, great-crested, Hammond’s, least, olive-sided, Pacific slope, willow, yellow-bellied
• Fulmar – northern

• Gallinule, common
• Gannet – northern
• Gnatcatcher – blue-grey
• Godwit – Hudsonian, marbled
• Goldeneye – Barrow’s, common
• Goldfinch – American
• Goose – Brant, Canada, Ross’, snow, white-fronted
• Goshawk – northern
• Grackle – common
• Grebe – Clarke’s, eared, horned, pied-billed, red-necked, western
• Grosbeak – black-headed, evening, pine, rose-breasted
• Grouse – blue, ruffed, sage, sharp-tailed, spruce
• Guillemot – black, pigeon
• Gull – black-headed, Bonaparte’s, California, Franklin’s, glaucous, glaucous-winged, great black-backed, Heerman’s, herring, Iceland, ivory, laughing, lesser black-backed, little, mew, ring-billed, Ross’, Sabine’s, Thayer’s, western
• Gyrfalcon

• Harrier – northern
• Hawk – broad-winged, Cooper’s, ferruginous, red-shouldered, red-tailed, rough-legged, sharp-shinned, Swainson’s
• Heron – black-crowned night, great blue, green
• Hummingbird – Anna’s, black-chinned, calliope, ruby-throated, rufous

• Ibis – white faced

• Jaeger – long-tailed, pomarine, parasitic
• Jay – blue, grey, Stellar’s
• Junco – dark-eyed

• Kestrel – American
• Killdeer
• Kingbird – eastern, western
• Kingfisher – belted
• Kinglet – golden-crowned, ruby-crowned
• Kittiwake – black-legged
• Knot – red

• Lark – horned
• Longspur – chestnut-collared, Lapland, McCown’s, Smith’s
• Loon – common, Pacific, red-throated, yellow-billed

• Magpie – black-billed
• Martin – purple
• Meadowlark – eastern, western
• Merganser – common, hooded, red-breasted
• Merlin
• Mockingbird – northern
• Moorhen – common
• Murre – common, thick-billed
• Murrelet – ancient, marbled
• Mynah – crested (likely exterpated)

• Nighthawk – common
• Nightjar
• Nutcracker – Clarke’s
• Nuthatch – pygmy, red-breasted, white-breasted

• Oriole – Baltimore, Bullock’s, orchard
• Osprey
• Ovenbird
• Owl – barn, barred, boreal, burrowing, flammulated, great grey, great horned, long-eared, northern pygmy, northern saw-whet, northern hawk, screech eastern and western, short-eared, snowy, spotted
• Oystercatcher – black

• Partridge – chukar, grey
• Parula – northern
• Pewee – eastern and western wood
• Pelican – white
• Phalarope – red, red-necked, Wilson’s
• Pheasant – ring-necked
• Phoebe – eastern, Say’s
• Pigeon – band-tailed
• Pipit – American, Sprague’s
• Plover – American golden, black-bellied, common ringed, mountain, piping, semi-palmated
• Poorwill – common
• Prairie chicken – greater
• Ptarmigan – rock, white-tailed, willow
• Puffin – common, horned, tufted

• Quail – northern bobwhite, California

• Rail – king, sora, Virginia, yellow
• Raven – common
• Razorbill
• Redpoll – common, hoary
• Redstart – American
• Robin – American

• Sanderling
• Sandpiper – Baird’s, buff-breasted, least, pectoral, purple, rock, semi-palmated, sharp-tailed, solitary, spotted, stilt, upland, western, white-rumped
• Sapsucker – red-breasted, red-naped, Williamson’s, yellow-bellied
• Scaup – greater, lesser
• Scoters, black, surf, white-winged
• Shearwater – Buller’s, Cory’s, greater, manx, pink-footed, short-tailed, sooty
• Shrike – loggerhead, northern
• Siskin – pine
• Skylark
• Snipe – Wilson’s (common)
• Solitaire – Townsend’s
• Sparrow – American tree, Baird’s, Brewer’s, chipping, clay-coloured, field, fox, golden-crowned, grasshopper, Harris’, Henslow’s, house, Ipswitch (seaside), lark, Le Conte’s, Lincoln’s, Nelson’s sharp-tailed, savannah, song, swamp, vesper, white-crowned, white-throated
• Starling – European
• Stilt – black-necked
• Storm petrel – fork-tailed, Leach’s, Wilson’s
• Surfbird
• Swallow – bank, barn, cliff, northern rough-winged, tree, violet green
• Swan – mute, trumpeter, tundra
• Swift – black, chimney, Vaux’s, white-throated

• Tanager – scarlet, western
• Tattler – wandering
• Teal – blue-winged, cinnamon, green-winged
• Tern – Arctic, black, Caspian, common, Forster’s, roseate
• Thrasher – brown, sage
• Thrush – Bicknell’s, grey-cheeked, hermit, Swainson’s, varied, wood
• Tit – Siberian
• Titmouse – tufted
• Towhee – spotted, eastern
• Turkey – wild
• Turnstone – black, ruddy

• Veery
• Vireo – blue-headed, Cassin’s, Hutton’s, Philadelphia, red-eyed, warbling, white-eyed, yellow-throated
• Vulture – turkey

• Warbler – bay-breasted, black and white, black-throated blue, black-throated green, black-throated grey, blackburnian, blackpoll, blue-winged, Canada, Cape May, cerulean, chestnut-sided, Connecticut, golden-winged, hooded, MacGillvray’s, magnolia, mourning, Nashville, orange-crowned, palm, pine, prairie, prothonotary, Tennessee, Townsend’s, Wilson’s, yellow, yellow-rumped
• Waterthrush – Lousiana, northern
• Waxwing – Bohemian, cedar
• Wheatear – northern
• Whimbrel
• Whip poor-will – common
• Wigeon – American, Eurasian
• Willet
• Woodcock – American
• Woodpecker – black-backed, downy, hairy, Lewis’s, pileated, red-bellied, red-headed, three-toed, white-headed
• Wren – Bewick’s, canyon, Carolina, house, marsh, rock, sedge, winter

• Yellowlegs – greater, lesser
• Yellowthroat – common