Bird Checklist

Species that have been spotted from the West Perth Thames Nature Trails and in the Wetlands

Waterfowl

  • American Widgeon
  • Mallard Duck
  • Wood Duck
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Bufflehead
  • Common Merganser
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Ruddy Duck
  • Canada Goose
  • Snow Goose
  • Tundra Swan
  • Trumpeter Swan
  • Black Duck
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Northern Pintail
  • Redhead
  • Canvasback
  • Greater Scaup
  • White-winged Scoter
  • Gadwall
  • Common Goldeneye
  • Long-tailed Duck

Shorebirds

  • Least Sandpiper
  • Semi-Palmated Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Stilt Sandpiper
  • Dunlin
  • Long-billed Dowitcher
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Semi-palmated Plover
  • Killdeer
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Common Snipe
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Red Knot
  • Lesser Golden Plover
  • Baird’s Sandpiper
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Sanderling
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Willet

Other Birds

  • Bobolink
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • European Starling
  • Blue Jay
  • American Crow
  • American Goldfinch
  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Junco
  • Cardinal
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Common Nighthawk
  • House Wren
  • Carolina Wren
  • Winter Wren
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Willow Flycatcher
  • Great Crested Flycatcher
  • American Robin
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Eastern Towhee
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Mourning Dove
  • Black-billed Cuckoo
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • Eastern Wood-pewee
  • Eastern phoebe
  • Eastern Kingbird

Herons

  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Green Heron
  • Black-crowned Night-heron

Swallows & Swifts

  • Barn Swallow
  • Bank Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Tree Swallow
  • Rough-winged Swallow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • Chimney Swift

Hawks & Falcons & Owls

  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Northern Harrier
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Osprey
  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Rough-legged Hawk
  • Red-shouldered Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Eastern Screech Owl
  • Bald Eagle
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Warbling Vireo
  • Horned Lark
  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Wood Thrush
  • Brown Thrasher
  • American Pipit
  • Sprague’s Pipit (possible)
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Myrtle Warbler (i.e. Yellow-rumped)
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Black-and-White Warbler
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • Lapland Longspur
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • Dickcissel
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Common Grackle
  • Rusty Blackbird
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Orchard Oriole
  • House Finch

Grebes and Terns:

  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Horned Grebe
  • Eared Grebe
  • Red-necked Grebe
  • Caspian Tern
  • Black Tern

Rails and Coots:

  • Sora
  • Virginia Rail
  • American Coot

Loons, Cormorants & Pelicans:

  • Common Loon
  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • American White Pelican

 

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