Grasslands Waterfowl and Shorebirds Game Birds National Park

American Avocet Marbled Godwit Sharp-tailed Grouse Avocets are one of the Due to similar Grouse are well known few birds that have colouring and size, it is for their spring mating different bill shapes often confused with the dances. Look for between males and curlew (down turned Grouse along the Birding 101 females, (female has beak), but has a straight Frenchman Valley upturned, male has a beak. Bottom (Ecotour Stop Beginner's Guide to Birds in straight bill). #5). Green-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Pheasant Grasslands National Park This dabbling duck Shovelers have wide These non-native birds were brought to North has a green patch bills and specialized America for sport. Males display unique, on its wing that is tongues to filter food I colourful clearly visible when from muddy water. plumage in flight. year round.

Willet Killdeer When flushed, look for the Killdeer have a Other Birds striking wing pattern in broken wing display flight (black and white) Common Nighthawk that they will do to and listen for the high- lead predators away This threatened bird is pitched territorial call - from their commonly found at the WILL WILLET, repeated. bare-ground nest. Frenchman Valley Campground. Listen for its unique "snort" as it Long-Billed Curlew Did You know? hunts mosquitos at Birds are decedents of dinosaurs? dusk. Their long billed is used Mourning Dove to remove food deep in Birds that fly have hollow bones to This family of birds are the mud. make them lighter? the only in North Bird lungs are more efficient than America that can drink mammal lungs at getting oxygen to the water without raising blood? their heads, by using Plumage refers to a birds feathers? suction. Parks Pares Canada Canada Canada Songbirds Birds of Prey American Goldfinch Brown Thrasher Red-winged Blackbird Burrowing Owl Goldfinches will Brown Thrasher The red shoulder Burrowing owls are duplicate certain males have patch is only found the size of a pop can songs of their thousands of on males and is used & migrate to Mexico partners perfectly. different songs that to maintain territory every year! They can they sing. not to attract eat as many as 1500 females. mice & 10,000 grasshoppers each summer. Barn Swallow Eastern Kingbird Sparrows Great Horned Owl Barn Swallows have This aggressive bird Many types of These majestic long, forked tails, will defend its area sparrows can be birds are often seen making them easier against all predators, found in the park. on a high perch at to identify. They and will appear to ride Often you only see a dusk, hunting for build mud nests in a flying hawk, while glimpse of brown mammals (up to buildings, like the pecking its head. fluttering past you. rabbit-size). Coulee Centre.

Black-billed Magpie Horned Lark Western Kingbird Northern Harrier This larger bird has Horned Larks are one Western Kingbirds Northern Harriers striking black, white of the first migrant have a courtship are the only type of and blue plumage. birds to return in display where males harrier found in Magpies are one of the February or early fly 15m in the air and North America. few animals capable of March. tumble down wildly. recognizing their own reflection in a mirror!

Brown-headed Cowbird Lark Bunting Western Meadowlark Swainson's Hawk During breeding the Cowbirds will lay their Meadowlarks are able This hawk migrates males are distinctive eggs in another bird's to open their bills with to Argentina yearly. black and white while nest! They are referred enough strength that This is the longest to as nest parasites. females look more like they can create holes migration of any Look for them near sparrows. They are in the ground. hawk. bison as they love eating often seen hunting for insects stirred up by a insects on the ground herd, or off of a bison's and on gravel roads. back!