Lifelist Canada

My list of Canadian birds (click on the bird's name to see the pictures) Lifelist home

Family Anatidae

• Snow Goose

• Ross's Goose

• Brant

• Cackling Goose

• Canada Goose

• Mute Swan

• Trumpeter Swan

• Tundra Swan

• Wood Duck

• Gadwall

• American Wigeon

• American Black Duck

• Mallard

• Blue-winged Teal

• Northern Shoveler

• Northern Pintail

• Green-winged Teal

• Canvasback

• Redhead

• Ring-necked Duck

• Greater Scaup

• Lesser Scaup

• King Eider

• Common Eider

• Harlequin Duck

• Surf Scoter

• White-winged Scoter

• Black Scoter

• Long-tailed Duck

• Bufflehead

• Common Goldeneye

• Barrow's Goldeneye

• Hooded Merganser

• Common Merganser

• Red-breasted Merganser

• Ruddy Duck

Family Phasianidae

• Ruffed Grouse

• Spruce Grouse

• Wild Turkey

Family Gaviidae

• Red-throated Loon

• Pacific Loon

• Common Loon

Family Podicipedidae

• Pied-billed Grebe

• Horned Grebe

• Red-necked Grebe

• Eared Grebe

• Western Grebe

Family Sulidae

• Northern Gannet

Family Phalacrocoracidae

• Pelagic Cormorant

• Great Cormorant

• Double-crested Cormorant

• Neotropic Cormorant

Family Pelicanidae

• American White Pelican

Family Ardeidae

• American Bittern

• Least Bittern

• Great Blue Heron

• Great Egret

• Cattle Egret

• Green Heron

• Black-crowned Night-Heron

• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Family Threskiornithidae

• Glossy Ibis

Family Cathartidae

• Black Vulture

• Turkey Vulture

Family Pandionidae

• Osprey

Family Accipitridae

• Bald Eagle

• Northern Harrier

• Sharp-shinned Hawk

• Cooper's Hawk

• Northern Goshawk

• Red-shouldered Hawk

• Broad-winged Hawk

• Red-tailed Hawk

• Rough-legged Hawk

• Golden Eagle

Family Rallidae

• Virginia Rail

• Sora

• Purple Gallinule

• Common Gallinule

• American Coot

Family Gruidae

• Sandhill Crane

Family Haematopodidae

• Black Oystercatcher

Family Charadriidae

• Black-bellied Plover

• American Golden Plover

• Semipalmated Plover

• Piping Plover

• Killdeer

Family Scolopacidae

• Willet

• Upland Sandpiper

• Whimbrel

• Hudsonian Godwit

• Marbled Godwit

• Ruddy Turnstone

• Red Knot

• Stilt Sandpiper

• Sanderling

• Purple Sandpiper

• Dunlin

• Baird's Sandpiper

• Least Sandpiper

• White-rumped Sandpiper

• Pectoral Sandpiper

• Semipalmated Sandpiper

• Short-billed Dowitcher

• Lond-billed Sandpiper

• Wilson's Snipe

• American Woodcock

• Wilson's Phalarope

• Red-necked Phalarope

• Red Phalarope

Family Stercorariidae

• Pomarine Jaeger

• Parasitic Jaeger

Family Laridae

• Bonaparte's Gull

• Ring-billed Gull

• Herring Gull

• Iceland Gull

• Lesser Black-backed Gull

• Slaty-backed Gull

• Glaucous Gull

• Great Black-backed Gull

• Caspian Tern

• Black Tern

• Common Tern

• Forster's Tern

Family Columbidae

• Rock Pigeon

• Mourning Dove

Family Cuculidae

• Yellow-billed Cuckoo

• Black-billed Cuckoo

Family Strigidae

• Eastern Screech-Owl

• Great Horned Owl

• Snowy Owl

• Barred Owl

• Northern Saw-whet Owl

Family Caprimulgidae

• Common Nighthawk

Family Apodidae

• Chimney Swift

Family Trochilidae

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Family Alcedinidae

• Belted Kingfisher

Family Picidae

• Red-headed Woodpecker

• Red-bellied Woodpecker

• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

• Downy Woodpecker

• Hairy Woodpecker

• Northern Flicker

• Pileated Woodpecker

Family Falconidae

• American Kestrel

• Merlin

• Peregrine Falcon

Family Tyrannidae

• Olive-sided Flycatcher

• Eastern Wood-Pewee

• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

• Alder Flycatcher

• Willow Flycatcher

• Least Flycatcher

• Eastern Phoebe

• Great Crested Flycatcher

• Eastern Kingbird

• Variegated Flycatcher

Family Laniidae

• Northern Shrike

Vireos Vireonidae

• White-eyed Vireo

• Blue-headed Vireo

• Warbling Vireo

• Philadelphia Vireo

• Red-eyed Vireo

Family Corvidae

• Blue Jay

• American Crow

• Common Raven

Family Hirundinidae

• Purple Martin

• Tree Swallow

• Northern Rough-winged Swallow

• Bank Swallow

• Cliff Swallow

• Barn Swallow

Family Paridae

• Black-capped Chickadee

Family Sittidae

• Red-breasted Nuthatch

• White-breasted Nuthatch

Family Certhiidae

• Brown Creeper

Family Troglodytidae

• House Wren

• Winter Wren

• Sedge Wren

• Marsh Wren

• Carolina Wren

Family Polioptilidae

• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Family Regulidae

• Golden-crowned Kinglet

• Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Family Turdidae

• Eastern Bluebird

• Veery

• Gray-cheeked Thrush

• Swainson's Thrush

• Hermit Thrush

• Wood Thrush

• American Robin

Family Mimidae

• Gray Catbird

• Brown Thrasher

• Northern Mockingbird

Family Sturnidae

• European Starling

Family Motacillidae

• American Pipit

Family Bombycillidae

• Cedar Waxwing

Family Calcariidae

• Lapland Longspur

• Snow Bunting

Family Parulidae

• Ovenbird

• Northern Waterthrush

• Black-and-White Warbler

• Tennessee Warbler

• Orange-crowned Warbler

• Nashville Warbler

• Mourning Warbler

• Kentucky Warbler

• Common Yellowthroat

• American Redstart

• Cape May Warbler

• Northern Parula

• Magnolia Warbler

• Bay-breasted Warbler

• Blackburnian Warbler

• Yellow Warbler

• Chestnut-sided Warbler

• Blackpoll Warbler

• Black-throated Blue Warbler

• Palm Warbler

• Pine Warbler

• Yellow-rumped Warbler

• Black-throated Gray Warbler

• Black-throated Green Warbler

• Canada Warbler

• Wilson's Warbler

• Yellow-browed Warbler

Family Emberizidae

• Eastern Towhee

• American Tree Sparrow

• Chipping Sparrow

• Field Sparrow

• Vesper Sparrow

• Lark Sparrow

• Savannah Sparrow

• Grasshopper Sparrow

• Nelson's Sparrow

• Fox Sparrow

• Song Sparrow

• Lincoln's Sparrow

• Swamp Sparrow

• White-throated Sparrow

• White-crowned Sparrow

• Dark-eyed Junco

Family Cardinalidae

• Summer Tanager

• Scarlet Tanager

• Northern Cardinal

• Rose-breasted Grosbeak

• Indigo Bunting

Family Icteridae

• Red-winged Blackbird

• Eastern Meadowlark

• Yellow-headed Blackbird

• Rusty Blackbird

• Common Grackle

• Brown-headed Cowbird

• Orchard Oriole

• Baltimore Oriole

Family Fringillidae

• Pine Grosbeak

• House Finch

• Purple Finch

• White-winged Crossbill

• Common Redpoll

• Pine Siskin

• American Goldfinch

Family Passeridae

• House Sparrow