A Checklist of the Birds of
Churchill and Southern Manitoba

Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
      h = heard only
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  2001 2002 2003 2006 2007
Greater White-fronted Goose   x x    
Snow Goose x x x   x
Ross's Goose         x*
(*included 3 blue morphs)
Brant          
Cackling Goose          
Canada Goose x x x x x
Mute Swan          
Trumpeter Swan x   x    
Tundra Swan   x   x x
Wood Duck x x x x  
Gadwall x x x x x
Eurasian Wigeon          
American Wigeon x x x x x
American Black Duck x x x x x
American Black Duck x Mallard       x  
Mallard x x x x x
Blue-winged Teal x x x x x
Cinnamon Teal          
Northern Shoveler x x x x x
Northern Pintail x x x x x
Garganey          
Green-winged Teal x x x x x
Canvasback x x x   x
Redhead x x x x x
Ring-necked Duck x x x x x
Greater Scaup x x x x x
Lesser Scaup x x x x x
King Eider     x   x
Common Eider x x x x x
Harlequin Duck          
Surf Scoter x x x x x
White-winged Scoter x x x x x
Black Scoter   x x x x
Long-tailed Duck x x x x x
Bufflehead x x x x x
Common Goldeneye x x x x x
Barrow's Goldeneye          
Hooded Merganser   x   x x
Common Merganser x   x x x
Red-breasted Merganser x x x x x
Ruddy Duck x x x x x
Gray Partridge     x   x
Ring-necked Pheasant          
Ruffed Grouse   x x   h
Spruce Grouse   x x x  
Willow Ptarmigan x x x x x
Rock Ptarmigan          
Sharp-tailed Grouse x x x x  
Greater Prairie-Chicken          
Wild Turkey          
Red-throated Loon   x x x x
Pacific Loon x x x x x
Common Loon x x x x x
Yellow-billed Loon          
Pied-billed Grebe x x x x x
Horned Grebe x x x x x
Red-necked Grebe x x x   x
Eared Grebe x x x x x
Western Grebe x x x x x
Clark's Grebe          
Northern Gannet          
American White Pelican x x x x x
Double-crested Cormorant x x x x x
American Bittern x x x x  
Least Bittern     x    
Great Blue Heron x x x x x
Great Egret x       x
Snowy Egret     x    
Little Blue Heron       x  
Tricolored Heron          
Cattle Egret     x   x
Green Heron       x  
Black-crowned Night-Heron x   x x x
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron          
White Ibis          
Glossy Ibis          
White-faced Ibis     x   x
Turkey Vulture x x     x
Osprey x x x x x
Bald Eagle x x x x x
Northern Harrier x x x x x
Sharp-shinned Hawk       x  
Cooper's Hawk   x     x
Northern Goshawk   x      
Red-shouldered Hawk         x
Broad-winged Hawk x x x   x
Swainson's Hawk x x x x x
Red-tailed Hawk x x x x x
Ferruginous Hawk x   x   x
Rough-legged Hawk x x x x x
Golden Eagle       x  
American Kestrel x x x x x
Merlin x x x x x
Gyrfalcon          
Peregrine Falcon   x     x
Prairie Falcon          
Yellow Rail   x h   h
King Rail          
Virginia Rail x x x x x
Sora x x x   x
Common Moorhen          
American Coot x x x x x
Sandhill Crane x x x x x
Whooping Crane          
Black-bellied Plover   x x   x
American Golden-Plover x x x x x
Semipalmated Plover x x x x x
Piping Plover          
Killdeer x x x x x
Black-necked Stilt          
American Avocet x x x x x
Greater Yellowlegs x x x   x
Lesser Yellowlegs x x x x x
Solitary Sandpiper x     x  
Willet x   x x x
Wandering Tattler          
Spotted Sandpiper x x x x x
Upland Sandpiper   x     x
Eskimo Curlew          
Whimbrel x x x x x
Long-billed Curlew          
Hudsonian Godwit x x x x x
Marbled Godwit x x x x x
Ruddy Turnstone x x x   x
Red Knot         x
Sanderling   x x x x
Semipalmated Sandpiper   x x   x
Western Sandpiper          
Least Sandpiper x x x x x
White-rumped Sandpiper x x x x x
Baird's Sandpiper   x x   x
Pectoral Sandpiper     x    
Purple Sandpiper          
Dunlin   x     x
Curlew Sandpiper          
Stilt Sandpiper x x x x x
Buff-breasted Sandpiper          
Ruff          
Short-billed Dowitcher x x x x x
Long-billed Dowitcher          
Wilson's Snipe x x x x x
American Woodcock          
Wilson's Phalarope   x x x x
Red-necked Phalarope x x x x x
Red Phalarope         x
Pomarine Jaeger          
Parasitic Jaeger x x x x x
Long-tailed Jaeger          
Laughing Gull          
Franklin's Gull x x x x x
Little Gull x x x x x
Black-headed Gull          
Bonaparte's Gull x x x x x
Black-tailed Gull          
Mew Gull          
Ring-billed Gull x x x x x
California Gull          
Herring Gull x x x x x
Thayer's Gull x   x    
Iceland Gull          
Lesser Black-backed Gull          
Glaucous-winged Gull          
Glaucous Gull x   x    
Great Black-backed Gull          
Sabine's Gull   x     x
Black-legged Kittiwake          
Ross's Gull x x x x x
Ivory Gull          
Caspian Tern     x    
Common Tern     x    
Arctic Tern x x x x x
Forster's Tern x x x x x
Least Tern          
White-winged Tern          
Black Tern x x x x x
Dovekie          
Black Guillemot          
Ancient Murrelet          
Rock Pigeon x x x x x
Band-tailed Pigeon          
White-winged Dove          
Mourning Dove x x x x x
Black-billed Cuckoo   h     x
Yellow-billed Cuckoo          
Barn Owl          
Eastern Screech-Owl          
Great Horned Owl   x x    
Snowy Owl          
Northern Hawk Owl     x x x
Burrowing Owl          
Barred Owl          
Great Gray Owl x x x    
Long-eared Owl          
Short-eared Owl x x x x x
Boreal Owl          
Northern Saw-whet Owl          
Common Nighthawk x   x    
Whip-poor-will          
Chimney Swift   x x   x
Ruby-throated Hummingbird x x x x  
Rufous Hummingbird          
Belted Kingfisher x x x   x
Lewis's Woodpecker          
Red-headed Woodpecker          
Red-bellied Woodpecker          
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     x   x
Downy Woopecker     x x  
Hairy Woodpecker x x x x  
Amer. Three-toed Woodpecker   x x    
Black-backed Woodpecker     x x  
Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker x x x x x
Pileated Woodpecker   x     x
Olive-sided Flycatcher   x     x
Western Wood-Pewee         x
Eastern Wood-Pewee   x x   x
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher x        
Alder Flycatcher x x x x x
Willow Flycatcher          
Least Flycatcher   x x x x
Eastern Phoebe x x x x x
Say's Phoebe          
Great Crested Flycatcher     x x  
Western Kingbird x x x x x
Eastern Kingbird x x x x x
Scissor-tailed Flyctcher          
Loggerhead Shrike   x      
Northern Shrike   x x   x
White-eyed Vireo          
Yellow-throated Vireo x x      
Blue-headed Vireo x x x   h
Warbling Vireo x x x x x
Philadelphia Vireo          
Red-eyed Vireo x x x x x
Gray Jay x x x x x
Blue Jay x x x x x
Western Scrub-Jay          
Clark's Nutcracker   x      
Black-billed Magpie x x x x x
American Crow x x x x x
Common Raven x x x x x
Horned Lark x x x x x
Purple Martin x x x x x
Tree Swallow x x x x x
Violet-green Swallow          
Northern Rough-winged Swallow   x x   x
Bank Swallow x x x x  
Cliff Swallow x x x x x
Barn Swallow x x x x x
Black-capped Chickadee x x x x x
Boreal Chickadee   x x   x
Red-breasted Nuthatch x x x x x
White-breasted Nuthatch       x x
Brown Creeper   x   x  
Rock Wren          
Carolina Wren          
House Wren x x x   x
Winter Wren          
Sedge Wren x x x   x
Marsh Wren x x x x x
Golden-crowned Kinglet x       x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet x x x   x
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher          
Northern Wheatear          
Eastern Bluebird x     x x
Mountain Bluebird x x x   x
Townsend's Solitaire          
Veery x x x x x
Gray-cheeked Thrush x x x x  
Swainson's Thrush   x x x x
Hermit Thrush x x x   x
Wood Thrush          
American Robin x x x x x
Varied Thrush          
Gray Catbird   x x x x
Northern Mockingbird          
Sage Thrasher          
Brown Thrasher   x x   x
Curve-billed Thrasher          
European Starling x x x x x
American Pipit x x x x x
Sprague's Pipit   x x    
Bohemian Waxwing x x x x x
Cedar Waxwing x x x x x
Blue-winged Warbler          
Golden-winged Warbler          
Tennessee Warbler x x   x x
Orange-crowned Warbler x x x   x
Nashville Warbler   x x   h
Northern Parula          
Yellow Warbler x x x x x
Chestnut-sided Warbler x x x x x
Magnolia Warbler          
Cape May Warbler x       x
Black-throated Blue Warbler x