Sunshine Coast Birds

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PENDER HARBOUR
PAPER MILL

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Migratory and year-round or resident birds are plentiful and varied in Pender Harbour. It's a great place for birdwatching because of our mild winters and the wide variety of habitats in a relatively small area. You could see 50 species in just a couple of hours, and nearly 200 species are sighted annually. There are 114 confirmed or suspected breeding species of bird in the Pender Harbour area.

Want to take part in the annual Pender Harbour Christmas Bird Count? Contact the Pender Harbour & District Wildlife Society.

We thank Tony Greenfield of the Sunshine Coast Natural History Society for providing us with this comprehensive list of resident and migratory birds. If you'd like a checklist of Sunshine Coast bird species, call Tony at 604-885-7869 or 604-885-5539. He'd also like to hear from you if you see any rare or casual species in Pender Harbour.

Common Species

Year-round

Dark-eyed junco, Canada goose, Chesnut-backed chickadee, European starling, Glaucous-winged gull, Great blue heron, Hairy woodpecker, House finch, House sparrow, Kildeer, Northern flicker, Northwestern crow, Pine siskin, Rock dove, Song sparrow, Spotted towhee, Steller's jay, Varied thrush, Winter wren.

Sporadic (absent part of the year)

American goldfinch, American robin, American wigeon, Bald eagle, Band-tailed pigeon, Barn swallow, Barrow's goldeneye, Black oystercatcher, Black turnstone, Black-throated grey warbler, Blue grouse, Bonaparte's gull, Brewer's blackbird, Brown-headed cowbird, Bufflehead, California gull, Cedar waxwing, Common loon, Common merganser, Common yellowthroat, Double-crested cormorant, Evening grosbeak, Golden-crowned kinglet, Golden-crowned sparrow, Green-winged teal, Harlequin duck, Hermit thrush, Horned grebe, Lincoln's sparrow, MacGillivray's warbler, Mallard, Marbled Murrelete, Mew gull, Northern pintail, Orange-crowned warbler, Pacific slope flycatcher, Pelagic cormorant, Purple finch, Red crossbill, Red-breasted nuthatch, Red-necked grebe, Red-winged blackbird, Rock sandpiper, Ruby-crowned kinglet, Rufous hummingbird, Savannah sparrow, Surf scoter, Surf bird, Swainson's thrush, Townsend's warbler, Violet-green swallow, Warbling vireo, Western grebe, Western tanager, White-crowned sparrow, White-winged scoter, Willow flycatcher, Yellow-rumped warbler.

Fairly Common Species

Year-round

Barred owl, Belted kingfisher, Brown creeper, Common raven, Downy woodpecker, Hooded merganser, Pileated woodpecker, Red-breasted sapsucker, Ruffed grouse, Yellow-bellied sapsucker.

Sporadic (absent part of the year)

American coot, American dipper, American pipit, Black scoter, Brandt's cormorant, Cassin's vireo, Common goldeneye, Common murre, Common nighthawk, Common snipe, Common tern, Greater yellowlegs, Greater scaup, Hammond's flycatcher, Hutton's vireo, Least sandpiper, Lesser yellowlegs, Long-billed dowitcher, Northern pigmy owl, Northern rough-winged swallow, Northern saw-whet owl, Olive-sided flycatcher, Osprey, Pacific loon, Pectoral sandpiper, Pigeon guillemot, Red-breasted merganser, Red-tailed hawk, Sharp-shinned hawk, Snow goose, Spotted sandpiper, Turkey vulture, Vaux's swift, Virginia rail, Yellow warbler, Western sandpiper, Western wood-peewee, Wilson's warbler, Wood duck.

Uncommon Species

Year-round

Anna's hummingbird, Bewick's wren, Gray jay, Great horned owl, Pied-billed grebe, Ring-necked duck, Western screech owl.

Sporadic (absent part of the year)

American kestrel, Ancient murrelete, Black swift, Black-headed grosbeak, Blue-winged teal, Caspian tern, Chipping sparrow, Cinnamon teal, Cliff swallow, Cooper's hawk, Gadwall, Gray-crowned rosy finch, Herring gull, Lazuli bunting, Lesser scaup, Marsh wren, Merlin, Mountain bluebird, Northern harrier, Northern shoveler, Northern shrike, Oldsquaw, Red-eyed vireo, Ring-billed gull, Semipalmated plover, Thayer's gull, Tree swallow, Trumpeter swan, Western meadowlark.

Rare Species

Year-round

Mute swan, Northern goshawk, Ring-necked pheasant, Three-toed woodpecker.

Sporadic (absent part of the year)

Baird's sandpiper, Black-bellied plover, Black-capped chickadee, Blue jay, Canvasback, Dunlin, Eared grebe, Eurasian wigeon, Greater white-fronted goose, Green heron, Mourning dove, Parasitic jaegar, Peregrine falcon, Pine grosbeak, Red-necked phalarope, Red-throated loon, Rhinocerous auklet, Rock ptarmigan, Sanderling, Sandhill crane, Semipalmated sandpiper, Solitary sandpiper, Townsend's solitarie, Yellow-billed loon, Yellow-headed blackbird.

Casual Species

American golden-plover, American tree-sparrow, Bank swallow, Bohemian waxwing, Brown pellican, Bullock's oriole, Bushtit, Cattle egret, Common redpoll, Eastern kingbird, Glaucous gull (not the common Glaucous-winged gull), Golden eagle, Golden-crowned sparrow, Gray catbird, Great gray owl, Harris' sparrow, Heermann's gull, Horned lark, House wren, Lark sparrow, Lewis' woodpecker, Mountain chickadee, Northern hawk-owl, Pacific golden-plover, Purple martin, Redhead, Rock wren, Rough-legged hawk, Ruddy duck, Ruddy turnstone, Rusty blackbird, Say's phoebe, Short-eared owl, Snowy owl, Sora, Stilt sandpiper, Tundra swan, Vesper sparrow, Wandering tattler, Western bluebird, Western gull, Western kingbird, Whimbrel, White-throated sparrow, White-winged crossbill.

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