Nova Scotia Bird Records

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Over 400 species of birds have been spotted in the Province of Nova Scotia:

Albatross

  • Black-backed Albatross
  • Yellow-nosed Albatross

American Vultures

  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture

Auks, Murres, Puffins

  • Atlantic Puffin
  • Black Guillemot
  • Common Murre
  • Dovekie
  • Great Auk
  • Razorbill 
  • Thick-billed Murre

Avocets, Stilts

  • American Avocet
  • Black-necked Stilt

 Blackbirds and Allies

  • Bobolink
  • Black-cowled Oriole
  • Brewer's Blackbird 
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Eastern Meadowlink
  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Northern Oriole 
  • Orchard Oriole 
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Rusty Blackbird
  • Western Meadowlink
  • Yellow-headed Blackbird

Boobies, Gannats

  • Northern Gannat
  • Brown Booby

Buntings, Sparrows

  • American Tree Sparrow
  • Cassin's Sparrow
  • Chestnut-collared Longspur
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Clay-colored Longspur
  • Dark-eyed Junco  
  • Field Sparrow
  • Fox Sparrow 
  • Golden-crowned Sparrow
  • Grasshopper Sparrow 
  • Green-tailed Towhee 
  • Harris' Sparrow
  • Henlow's Sparrow
  • Lapland Longspur
  • Lark Bunting
  • Lark Sparrow 
  • Le Conte's Sparrow
  • Lincoln's Sparrow
  • Rufous-sided Towhee  
  • Savannah Sparrow 
  • Seaside Sparrow 
  • Sharp-tailed Sparrow
  • Smith's Longspur 
  • Snow Bunting 
  • Song Sparrow   
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • Vesper Sparrow
  • White-crowned Sparrow
  • White-throated Sparrow

Cardinals, Grosbeaks and Allies

  • Black-headed Grosbeak
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Dickcissel
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Painted Bunting
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Cormorants

  • Double-creasted Cormorant
  • Great Cormorant

Cranes

  • Sandhill Crane

Creepers

  • Brown Creeper

Cuckoos

  • Black-billed Cuckoo
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Falcons

  • American Kestrel  
  • Gyrfalcon
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon

Finches

  • American Goldfinch
  • Common Redpoll 
  • Evening Grosbeak
  • Hoary Redpoll 
  • House Finch 
  • Pine Grosbeak
  • Pine Siskin 
  • Purple Finch
  • Red Crossbill
  • White-winged Crossbill

Flamingos

  • Greater Flamingo

Goatsuckers

  • Chuck-will's-widow
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Whip-poor-will

Grebes

  • Eared Grebe 
  • Horned Grebe
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Red-necked Grebe
  • Western Grebe

Gulls, Terns, Skimmers

  • Arctic Tern
  • Black Skimmer
  • Black Tern
  • Black-legged Kittiwake
  • Bonaparte's Gull 
  • Caspian Tern
  • Common Black-headed Gull 
  • Common Tern
  • Forster's Tern
  • Franklin's Gull
  • Glaucous Gull 
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Herring Gull
  • Iceland Gull
  • Ivory Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Least Tern 
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Little Gull
  • Mew Gull
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Roseate Tern 
  • Royal Tern 
  • Sabine's Gull
  • Sooty Tern 

Herons, Bitterns

  • American Bittern
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron
  • Cattle Egret
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Green-backed Heron
  • Least Bittern
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Reddish Egert
  • Snowy Egret 
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Hummingbirds

  • Black-chinned Hummingbird
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  • Rufous Hummingbird

Ibises

  • Glossy Ibis
  • White Ibis

Jays, Crows

  • American Crow
  • Black-billed Magpie
  • Blue Jay
  • Common Raven
  • Fish Crow
  • Gray Jay
  • Jackdraw

Kingfishers

  • Belted Kingfisher

Kinglets

  • Gold-crowned Kinglet
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Larks

  • Horned Lark

Loons

  • Common Loon 
  • Pacific Loon 
  • Red-throated Loon

Mockers

  • Brown Thrasher
  • Gray Catbird 
  • Northern Mockingbird 

Nuthatches 

  • Red-breasted Nuthatch
  • White-breasted Nuthatch

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow

Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers

  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Ospreys, Eagles, Hawks

  • American Swallow-tailed Kite
  • Bald Eagle
  • Broad-winged Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Golden Eagle 
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Northern Harrier
  • Osprey
  • Red-shouldered Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Rough-legged Hawk
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk 
  • Swainson's Hawk
  • Zone-tailed Hawk

Owls

  • Barred Owl
  • Boreal Owl 
  • Common Barn-Owl 
  • Eastern Screech Owl 
  • Great Gray Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Long-eared Owl 
  • Northern Hawk Owl
  • Northern Saw-whet Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Snowy Owl

Oystercatcher

  • American Oystercatcher

Pelicans

  • American White Pelican 
  • Brown Pelican

 

 

 

 

Pheasants, Grouse and Allies

  • Gray Partridge
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Rock Ptarmigan
  • Ruffled Grouse
  • Spruce Grouse
  • Willow Ptarmigan

Pigeons, Doves

  • Band-tailed Pigeon 
  • Common Ground-Dove
  • Mourning Dove
  • Passenger Pigeon
  • Rock Dove
  • White-winged Dove

Pipits

  • Water Pipit

Plovers

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Killdeer
  • Lesser Golden-Plover
  • Northern Lapwing
  • Piping Plover
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Wilson's Plover

Rails, Gallinules, Coots

  • American Coot
  • Clapper Rail
  • Common Moorhen
  • Corn Crake
  • King Rail
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Sora
  • Virginia Rail
  • Yellow Rail

Sandpipers and Allies

  • American Woodcock
  • Baird's Sandpiper   
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Common Snipe
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Dunlin
  • Eskimo Curlew
  • Eurasian Curlew
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Lesser Sandpiper
  • Little Stint
  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Purple Sandpiper
  • Red Knot
  • Red Phalarope
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Ruff
  • Sanderling
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper
  • Short-biller Dowitcher
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Spotted Sandpiper 
  • Stilt Sandpiper 
  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Whimbrel
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Willet
  • Wilson's Phalarope

Shearwaters, Fulmars

  • Aububon's Shearwater
  • Cory's Shearwater
  • Greater Shearwater
  • Little Shearwater
  • Manx Shearwater
  • Northern Fulmar 
  • Sooty Shearwater

Shrikes

  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Northern Shrike

Skuas, Jaegars

  • Great Skua
  • Long-tailed Jaegar
  • Parasitic Jaegar
  • Pomarine Jaegar
  • Red Jaegar

Starlings

  • European Starling

Storm-Petrels

  • Black-capped Petrel
  • British Storm-Petrel
  • Leach's Storm-Petrel
  • Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Barn Swallow 
  • Cave Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow
  • N. Rough-winged Swallow
  • Purple Martin
  • Tree Swallow
  • Violet-Green Swallow

Swans, Geese, Ducks

  • American Black Duck
  • American Wigeon 
  • Barnacle Goose   
  • Black Scoter
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Brant
  • Canada Goose
  • Canvasback
  • Common Eider
  • Common Goldeneye
  • Eurasian Wigeon 
  • Fulvous Whistling Duck
  • Gadwell
  • Greater Scaup
  • Greater White-fronted Goose
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Harlequin Duck
  • King Eider
  • Labrador Duck
  • Lesser Scaup 
  • Mallard
  • Northern Pintail 
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Oldsquaw
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Redhead
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Ruddy Duck 
  • Snow Goose 
  • Surf Scoter 
  • Tundra Swan 
  • White-winged Scoter
  • Wood Duck

Swifts

  • Chimney Swift

Tanagers

  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Summer Tanager
  • Western Tanager

Thrushes and Allies

  • American Robin  
  • Eastern Bluebird 
  • Gray-cheeked Thrush
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Northern Wheatear
  • Swainson's Thrush 
  • Townsend's Solitaire
  • Varied Thrush
  • Veery

Titmice

  • Black-capped Chickadee 
  • Boreal Chickadee

Tropicbird

  • White-tailed Tropicbird

Tyrant Flycatchers

  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • Alder Flycatcher
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Eastern Phoebe
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher
  • Gray Kingbird
  • Great Crested Flycatcher
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Say's Phoebe
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Western Kingbird
  • Willow Flycatcher 
  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Vireos

  • Philadelphia Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Solitary Vireo
  • Warbling Vireo
  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo

Warblers

  • American Redstart
  • Bay-breasted Warbler
  • Black-and-White Warbler
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Canada Warbler
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Cerulean Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Connecticut Warbler
  • Golden-winged Warbler
  • Hermit Warbler
  • Hooded Warbler
  • Kentucky Warbler
  • Louisiana Warbler
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Mourning Warbler 
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Northern Parula 
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Orange-crowned Waterthrush
  • Ovenbird
  • Palm Warbler
  • Pine Warbler 
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Swainson's Warbler
  • Tennesse Warbler 
  • Townsend's Warbler
  • Wilson's Warbler 
  • Worm-eating Warbler
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Yellow-breasted Chat
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Warbler

 Waxwings

  • Bohemian Waxwing
  • Cedar Waxwing

 Woodpeckers

  • American Three-toed Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker 
  • Northern Flicker 
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • Red-headed Woodpecker
  • Yellow-bellied Woodpecker

 Wrens

  • Carolina Wren
  • House Wren 
  • Marsh Wren 
  • Rock Wren 
  • Sedge Wren
  • Winter Wren

Other

  • Brambling
  • Limpkin
  • Magnificent Frigatebird

 

For more information, please visit Birds of Nova Scotia.

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