Squamish Estuary Bird Checklist

Squamish is an excellent place to bird-watch. Below is a list of birds which have been sited in what is designated as the Squamish Estuary.

The designation "rare" indicates that a species occur rarely, casually, accidentally or irregularly/erratically as defined by the BC Wildlife Watch checklist compiled by Jim Wisnia. A birder with average skills who birds in the Squamish Estuary several times each month for a year can expect to see some of these species as well as most or all of the other species.

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Loons

Grebes

Gannets, Pelicans & Cormorants

Herons, Storks, Ibises & Vultures

Geese, Swans & Ducks

Hawks, Eagles & Falcons

Grouse & Turkeys

Rails & Cranes

Plovers

Sandpipers

Jaegers, Gulls, Terns & Skimmers

Alcids

Pigeons & Doves

Owls

Nightjars

Swifts & Hummingbirds

Kingfishers

Woodpeckers

Tyrant Flycatchers

Shrikes

Vireos

Jays, Magpies & Crows

Larks, Martins & Swallows

Titmice, Nuthatches & Creepers

Wrens & Dippers

Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, Thrushes &Mimics

Starlings

Pipits & Waxwings

Wood Warblers

Tanagers

Grosbeaks, Buntings & Sparrows

Meadowlarks, Blackbirds & Orioles

Finches

Weaver Finches

Squamish Estuary Checklist

Gaviiformes  [up]

LOONS

• Red-throated Loon
• Pacific Loon (rare)
• Common Loon
• Yellow-billed Loon (rare)

Podicipediformes  [up]

GREBES

• Pied-billed Grebe (rare)
• Horned Grebe
• Red-necked Grebe
• Eared Grebe (rare)
• Western Grebe

Pelicaniformes  [up]

GANNETS, PELICANS & CORMORANTS

• American White Pelican (rare)
• Brant's Cormorant (rare)
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Pelagic Cormorant

Ciconiiformes  [up]

HERONS, STORKS, IBISES &VULTURES

• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret (rare)
• Green Heron (rare)
• Turkey Vulture

Anseriformes  [up]

GEESE, SWANS & DUCKS

• Greater White-fronted Goose (rare)
• Snow Goose (rare)
• Canada Goose
• Trumpeter Swan
• Wood Duck
• Gadwall
• Eurasian Wigeon (rare)
• American Wigeon
• Mallard
• Blue-winged Teal (rare)
• Cinnamon Teal (rare)
• Northern Shoveler (rare)
• Northern Pintail
• Green-winged Teal
• Canvasback (rare)
• Redhead
• Ring-necked Duck (rare)
• Greater Scaup
• Lesser Scaup
• Harlequin Duck (rare)
• Surf Scoter
• White-winged Scoter (rare)
• Black Scoter (rare)
• Oldsquaw (rare)
• Bufflehead
• Common Goldeneye
• Barrow's Goldeneye
• Hooded Merganser
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Common Merganser
• Ruddy Duck (rare)

Falconiformes  [up]

HAWKS, EAGLES & FALCONS

• Osprey (rare)
• Bald Eagle
• Northern Harrier (rare)
• Sharp-shinned Hawk (rare)
• Cooper's Hawk (rare)
• Northern Goshawk (rare)
• Red-tailed Hawk (rare)
• Rough-legged Hawk (rare)
• Golden Eagle (rare)
• American Kestrel (rare)
• Merlin (rare)
• Peregrine Falcon (rare)
• Gyrfalcon

Galliformes   [up]

GROUSE & TURKEYS

• Ring-necked Pheasant (rare)
• Ruffed Grouse (rare)
• Blue Grouse (rare)

Gruiformes  [up]

RAILS & CRANES

• Virginia Rail (rare)
• Sora (rare)
• American Coot (rare)
• Sandhill Crane (rare)

Charadriiformes  [up]

PLOVERS

• Black-bellied Plover (rare)
• Killdeer (rare)
• Black Oystercatcher (rare)

SANDPIPERS

• Greater Yellowlegs (rare)
• Lesser Yellowlegs (rare)
• Solitary Sandpiper (rare)
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Long-billed Curlew (rare)
• Sanderling (rare)
• Western Sandpiper (rare)
• Least Sandpiper (rare)
• Baird's Sandpiper (rare)
• Pectoral Sandpiper (rare)
• Dunlin (rare)
• Stilt Sandpiper (rare)
• Long-billed Dowitcher (rare)
• Common Snipe (rare)

JAEGERS, GULLS, TERNS &SKIMMERS

• Parasitic Jaeger (rare)
• Bonaparte's Gull (rare)
• Mew Gull
• Ring-billed Gull (rare)
• California Gull (rare)
• Herring Gull (rare)
• Thayer's Gull (rare)
• Western Gull (rare)
• Glaucous Gull (rare)
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Caspian Tern (rare)

ALCIDS

• Common Murre (rare)
• Pigeon Guillemot (rare)
• Marbled Murrelet (rare)

Columbiformes  [up]

PIGEONS & DOVES

• Rock Dove
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Mourning Dove (rare)

Strigiformes  [up]

OWLS

• Western Screech-Owl (rare)
• Great Horned Owl (rare)
• Snowy Owl (rare)
• Northern Pygmy Owl (rare)
• Barred Owl (rare)
• Short-eared Owl (rare)
• Northern Saw-whet Owl (rare)

Caprimulgiformes  [up]

NIGHTJARS

• Common Nighthawk (rare)

Apodiformes  [up]

SWIFTS & HUMMINGBIRDS

• Black Swift (rare)
• Vaux's Swift (rare)
• White-throated Swift (rare)
• Anna's Hummingbird (rare)
• Rufous Hummingbird

Coraciiformes  [up]

KINGFISHERS

• Belted Kingfisher

Piciformes  [up]

WOODPECKERS

• Red-breasted Sapsucker (rare)
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker (rare)

Passeriformes  [up]

TYRANT FLYCATCHERS

• Olive-sided Flycatcher (rare)
• Western Wood-Pewee (rare)
• Willow Flycatcher
• Hammond's Flycatcher (rare)
• Pacific-slope Flycatcher
• Western Kingbird (rare)
• Eastern Kingbird (rare)

SHRIKES

• Northern Shrike (rare)

VIREOS

• Cassin's (Solitary) Vireo (rare)
• Hutton's Vireo (rare)
• Warbling Vireo (rare)
• Red-eyed Vireo (rare)

JAYS, MAGPIES & CROWS

• Stellar's Jay
• Clark's Nutcracker (rare)
• Northwestern Crow
• Common Raven

LARKS, MARTINS & SWALLOWS

• Horned Lark (rare)
• Purple Martin (rare)
• Tree Swallow
• Violet-green Swallow
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Bank Swallow (rare)
• Barn Swallow (rare)
• Cliff Swallow

TITMICE, NUTHATCHES & CREEPERS

• Black-capped Chickadee
• Chestnut-backed Chickadee
• Bushtit
• Red-breasted Nuthatch (rare)
• Brown Creeper (rare)

WRENS AND DIPPERS

• Bewick's Wren (rare)
• Winter Wren
• Marsh Wren (rare)
• American Dipper (rare)

KINGLETS, GNATCATCHERS, THRUSHES & MIMICS

• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Mountain Bluebird (rare)
• Townsend's Solitaire (rare)
• Swainson's Thrush
• Hermit Thrush (rare)
• American Robin
• Varied Thrush

STARLINGS

• European Starling

PIPITS & WAXWINGS  [up]

• American Pipit
• Bohemian Waxwing (rare)
• Cedar Waxwing

WOOD WARBLERS

• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Yellow Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Black-throated Gray Warbler (rare)
• Townsend's Warbler (rare)
• American Redstart (rare)
• MacGillivray's Warbler (rare)
• Common Yellowthroat
• Wilson's Warbler (rare)

TANAGERS

• Western Tanager (rare)

SPARROWS, GROSBEAKS & BUNTINGS  [up]

• Spotted Towhee
• American Tree Sparrow (rare)
• Chipping Sparrow (rare)
• Savannah Sparrow
• Fox Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Lincoln's Sparrow (rare)
• Swamp Sparrow (rare)
• White-throated Sparrow (rare)
• Harris's Sparrow (rare)
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Golden-crowned Sparrow (rare)
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Lapland Longspur (rare)
• Snow Bunting (rare)
• Black-headed Grosbeak (rare)

MEADOWLARKS, BLACKBIRDS & ORIOLES

• Red-winged Blackbird
• Western Meadowlark (rare)
• Yellow-headed Blackbird (rare)
• Brewer's Blackbird
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Bullock's Oriole (rare)

FINCHES

• Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (rare)
• Pine Grosbeak (rare)
• Purple Finch (rare)
• House Finch
• Red Crossbill
• Common Redpoll (rare)
• Pine Siskin
• American Goldfinch
• Evening Grosbeak

WEAVER FINCHES  [up]

• House Sparrow

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