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Checklist Birds CHECKLIST of British Columbia BIRDS British Columbia Field Ornithologists Taxonomy This checklist follows taxonomy and nomenclature of the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds, including supplements up to the 59th (June 2018). h p://checklist.aou.org/ Legend B Confirmed breeding (as per Atlas) b Possible/Probable breeding (as per Atlas) Winters regularly in region (may be common to rare) N Confirmed provincial nes ng prior to/since Atlas A Accidental (1 or 2 records per ecoprovince) C Casual (>2 records per ecoprovince but less than annual) I Introduced X Ex pated * Review List species Ecoprovinces of British Columbia (See map on back cover) 1 Georgia Depression 2 Coast and Mountains/Northeast Pacific 3 Southern Interior 4 Southern Interior Mountains 5 Central Interior 6 Sub-boreal Interior 7 Boreal Plains 8 Taiga Plains 9 Northern Boreal Mountains/Southern Alaska xxxMountains Steller's Jay cover photo: William Murdock C ode Ecoprovince ü Common Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Main List Anseriformes Ducks, Geese, & Swans CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Fulvous Whistling-Duck * A Emperor Goose * C C Snow Goose Ross's Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Pink-footed Goose * A Brant Cackling Goose Canada Goose B B B B B B B B B Mute Swan I B Trumpeter Swan B B B B B B B Tundra Swan Wood Duck B B B B B B Baikal Teal * A A Garganey * C C A Blue-winged Teal B B B B B B B b B Cinnamon Teal B B B B B B b b Northern Shoveler B b B B B B B b b Gadwall B b B B B b B b Falcated Duck * A Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon B b B B B B B B B Mallard B B B B B B B B B American Black Duck I B CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Northern Pintail B b B b B b B b B Green-winged Teal B B B B B B B B B Canvasback B B B b B b B Redhead B B B b B b b Ring-necked Duck B B B B B B B B B Tufted Duck * C A A A A Greater Scaup b Lesser Scaup b B B B b B b B Steller's Eider * A A King Eider * C C Common Eider * A A A Harlequin Duck B B B B b B B B Surf Scoter N b b b White-winged Scoter b b b b b b b B Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck N b Bufflehead b B B B B B B B B Common Goldeneye B B B B B B B B B Barrow's Goldeneye B B B B B B B B B Smew * A Hooded Merganser B B B B B B B b Common Merganser B B B B B B B b B Red-breasted Merganser B b B B Ruddy Duck B B B B B B b Galliformes New World Quail Mountain Quail I,X California Quail I B B B B B CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies Chukar I B b B Gray Partridge I B b b Ring-necked Pheasant I B B B B Ruffed Grouse B B B B B B B B B Greater Sage-Grouse X Spruce Grouse B B B B B B B B Willow Ptarmigan b B B B Rock Ptarmigan b B B B White-tailed Ptarmigan B B B B B B B Dusky Grouse B B B B B b b B Sooty Grouse B B B B B B Sharp-tailed Grouse B b B B B B Wild Turkey I b B B Podicipediformes Grebes Pied-billed Grebe B B B B B B B b B Horned Grebe B B B B B B B B Red-necked Grebe b B B B B B B B Eared Grebe B B B B B b Western Grebe B B Clark's Grebe B b Columbiformes Pigeons and Doves Rock Pigeon I B B B B b B B b Band-tailed Pigeon B B b b Oriental Turtle-Dove * A A Eurasian Collared-Dove I B B B b B B b b b CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Passenger Pigeon X White-winged Dove * C C A Mourning Dove B b B B b b b Cuculiformes Cuckoos Common Cuckoo * A Yellow-billed Cuckoo * C C C C Black-billed Cuckoo * A C C A A Caprimulgiformes Nightjars Lesser Nighthawk * A A Common Nighthawk B B B B B B B b B Common Poorwill B b b Eastern/Mexican Whip-poor-will * A Apodiformes Swifts Black Swift b B b B b b b Vaux's Swift B B B B b b b White-throated Swift B B B Hummingbirds Mexican Violetear * A Rivoli's Hummingbird * A Ruby-throated Hummingbird * b b b Black-chinned Hummingbird B B b Anna's Hummingbird B b B Costa's Hummingbird * C C A Rufous Hummingbird B B B B B B b b B Calliope Hummingbird b B B B B B b CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Xantus's Hummingbird * A Gruiformes Rails, Gallinules, and Coots Yellow Rail b b b Virginia Rail B B B B B b b Sora B B B B B B B b b Common Gallinule * A American Coot B B B B B B B Cranes Sandhill Crane B B B B B B B B b Common Crane * A Whooping Crane * A A A Charadriiformes Stilts and Avocets Black-necked Stilt B b b American Avocet B B B B Oystercatchers Black Oystercatcher B B Plovers Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover B b Pacific Golden-Plover Lesser Sand-Plover * A A Snowy Plover * C C Semipalmated Plover B B b B Piping Plover * A Killdeer B B B B B B B B B CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Sandpipers and Allies Upland Sandpiper b B b Bristle-thighed Curlew * A Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew B B B B Far Eastern Curlew * A Bar-tailed Godwit * C C Hudsonian Godwit N Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Black Turnstone Red Knot Surfbird Ruff * C C A Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper * C C Temminck's Stint * A Spoon-billed Sandpiper * A Red-necked Stint * C A Sanderling Dunlin Rock Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper * A Baird's Sandpiper N b Little Stint * C A Least Sandpiper B B B White-rumped Sandpiper * C A A A C CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Buff-breasted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher N b Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe B b B B B B B B B Terek Sandpiper * A Spotted Sandpiper B B B B B B B B B Solitary Sandpiper B B B B B B B B Wandering Tattler B Lesser Yellowlegs b B B B b B Willet * C C C A A Spotted Redshank * C Greater Yellowlegs B B b B B B b B Wood Sandpiper * A A Wilson's Phalarope b B B B b B Red-necked Phalarope B Red Phalarope Skuas and Jaegers South Polar Skua Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger B Long-tailed Jaeger Auks Dovekie * A Common Murre B Thick-billed Murre *,N C CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pigeon Guillemot B B Marbled Murrelet B B Kittlitz's Murrelet * A A Scripps's Murrelet * C Guadalupe Murrelet * A Ancient Murrelet B Cassin's Auklet B Parakeet Auklet * C Crested Auklet * A A Rhinoceros Auklet B B Horned Puffin B Tufted Puffin B Gulls and Terns Black-legged Kittiwake B Red-legged Kittiwake * A Ivory Gull * C A A A Sabine's Gull Bonaparte's Gull b b B B B B B Black-headed Gull * C Little Gull * C A A A A Ross's Gull * A A Laughing Gull * A Franklin's Gull N Black-tailed Gull * A A Heermann's Gull Mew Gull B B b b b B Ring-billed Gull B b b b B b Western Gull CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 California Gull b B Herring Gull B B B B B b b B Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull * C A C C Slaty-backed Gull * C C A A Glaucous-winged Gull B B B Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull * A Aleutian Tern * A Least Tern * A Caspian Tern B b b b b Black Tern B B B B B B Common Tern Arctic Tern B B B B Forster's Tern N b Elegant Tern * C C Phaethontiformes Tropicbirds Red-tailed Tropicbird * A Gaviiformes Loons Red-throated Loon B B Pacific Loon b B B Common Loon B B B B B B B b B Yellow-billed Loon Procellariiformes Albatrosses Laysan Albatross CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Black-footed Albatross Short-tailed Albatross * C Northern Storm-Petrels Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel B Leach's Storm-Petrel B Petrels and Shearwaters Northern Fulmar b Murphy's Petrel * C Mottled Petrel * C Cook's Petrel * A Buller's Shearwater Short-tailed Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater * C Pink-footed Shearwater Flesh-footed Shearwater Manx Shearwater * C C Black-vented Shearwater * C C Ciconiiformes Storks Wood Stork * A Suliformes Frigatebirds Magnificent Frigatebird * A Boobies and Gannets Nazca Booby * A Blue-footed Booby * A Brown Booby * A A CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Cormorants Brandt's Cormorant N b b Double-crested Cormorant B b B B b Red-faced Cormorant * A Pelagic Cormorant B B Pelecaniformes Pelicans American White Pelican B Brown Pelican Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns American Bittern b b b B b b b Least Bittern * A A b Great Blue Heron B B B B B b b Great Egret Snowy Egret * C A C A Little Blue Heron * A A Cattle Egret * C C C C A A Green Heron B B b Black-crowned Night-Heron N b Ibises White-faced Ibis * C C C C Cathartiformes New World Vultures Black Vulture * A A Turkey Vulture B b B b b California Condor X CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Accipitriformes Osprey Osprey B B B B B B B B B Hawks, Eagles, and Kites White-tailed Kite * C A Golden Eagle B b B B B B b b B Northern Harrier B B B B B b B B b Sharp-shinned Hawk b B B B b B B B B Cooper's Hawk B B B B B B B Northern Goshawk B B B B b B B b B Bald Eagle B B B B B B B B B Broad-winged Hawk B b B B b Swainson's Hawk b B b b b b Red-tailed Hawk B B B B B B B B B Rough-legged Hawk Ferruginous Hawk *,N C b C Strigiformes Barn Owls Barn Owl B B B Owls Flammulated Owl B B b Western Screech-Owl B B B B b Great Horned Owl B B B B B B B B B Snowy Owl Northern Hawk Owl B B B B B B B Northern Pygmy-Owl B B B B B b b B Burrowing Owl * B b Spotted Owl N b CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Barred Owl B B B B B b B B B Great Gray Owl b B b B B B B b Long-eared Owl b B B B b B Short-eared Owl b b b B B b b b b Boreal Owl b b b b b b B Northern Saw-whet Owl B b B B B b b b Coraciiformes Kingfishers Belted Kingfisher B B B B B B B B B Piciformes Woodpeckers Lewis's Woodpecker b B B B Red-headed Woodpecker * A C Acorn Woodpecker * C C Williamson's Sapsucker B B Yellow-bellied Sapsucker B B B B B B B Red-naped Sapsucker B B B B b Red-breasted Sapsucker B B B B B B b B Am.
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