Salt Spring Island is a Haven For Birders
A bird watching vacation amidst the spectacular scenery on Salt Spring Island is a birder’s dream! An excellent birding tour and a unique opportunity for nature photography.
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Here is a list of some of the species you may encounter while birding on Salt Spring Island.
Bird Species
| American 3-toed Woodpecker American Coot American Pipit American Robin Ash-throated Flycatcher Bald Eagle Barn Owl Barred Owl Belted Kingfisher Black Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover Black Turnstone Black-throated Gray Warbler Blue Grouse Bonaparte’s Gull Brandt’s Cormorant Brown Creepers Bufflehead Bushtit Caspian Tern Cedar Waxwing Common Tern Cooper’s Hawk Dark-eyed Junco Double-crested Cormorant Dowitcher Downy Woodpecker Eared Grebe Evening Grosbeak Fox Sparrows Glaucous-winged Gull Great Blue Heron Great Egret Great Gray Owl Great Horned Owl Goldeneye Golden-plover Tufted Puffin Hammond’s Flycatcher Heermann’s Gull Hooded Merganser Horned Grebe House Finch Hummingbird Iceland Gull Killdeer King Eider Lincoln’s Sparrow Marbled Murrelet Merganser |
Merlin Mew Gull Northern Flicker Northern Goshawk Northern Pygmy-Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Northwestern Crow Olive-sided Flycatcher Osprey Pacific Loon Pelagic Cormorant Peregrine Falcon Pileated Woodpecker Raven Red-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Sapsucker Red Crossbill Red-necked Grebe Red-tailed Hawk Red-winged Blackbird Rhinoceros Auklet Ring-billed Gull Rock Sandpiper Ruddy Duck Ruddy Turnstone Ruffed Grouse Rufous Hummingbird Sabine’s Gull Sandhill Crane Sandpiper Scoter Semipalmated Plover Short-eared Owl Sooty Shearwater Spotted Towhee Starling Stellar’s Jay Swainson’s Thrush Townsend Warbler Turkey Vulture Western Sandpiper Western Screech-Owl Western Tanager Western Grebe Willet Winter Wren Yellow-billed Loon Yellow-headed Blackbird |
