2016 List of Birds

December 31ST, 2016:    217 species!

1-     Hermit thrush – Wickaninnish beach trail

2-     Varied thrush – Wickaninnish beach trail

3-     American robin – Tofino

4-    Starling – Tofino

5-     Great blue heron – Crab dock, Tofino

6-     Bald eagle – Tofino

7-     Glaucous winged gull –  Tofino

8-     Fox sparrow – 240 Neill street

9-     Hooded merganser – Crab dock, Tofino

10-   Double crested cormorant – Crab dock, Tofino

11-   Common merganser – Crab dock, Tofino

12-   Northwestern crow – Tofino

13-   Common raven – Crab dock, Tofino

14-   Spotted towhee – 240 Neill street, Tofino

15-   Steller jay – 240 Neill street, Tofino

16-   Anna’s hummingbird – 240 Neill street

17-   Mallard – Crab dock, Tofino

18-   Northern Flicker – Crab dock hill, Tofino

19-   Black turnstone – Crab dock, Tofino

20-   Brant cormorant – boat trip

21-   Pelagic cormorant – boat trip

22-   Belted kingfisher – boat trip

23-   Common goldeneye – boat trip

24-   Western grebe – boat trip

25-   Western gull – boat trip

26-   Bufflehead – boat trip

27-   Surf scoter –  boat trip                                          BOAT TRIP

28-   Mew gull – boat trip                                            .Compost island

29-   Eurasian widgeon – boat trip                                 .Calf island

30-   Red throated loon – boat trip                               .Ginnard point

31-   Orange crowned warbler – Mallard lake, Tofino                     Laddie islets

32-   Barrow’s goldeneye – Crab dock, Tofino

33-   Black oystercatcher – Sloman island

34-   Red necked grebe –  Sloman island

35-   Wilson’s snipe – Gas and Go, Tofino

36-   Trumpeter swan – Port Alberni

37-   Red tailed hawk  –  Sproat lake, Port Alberni

38-   Grey jay – Mount Washington

       39 –  Spruce grouse  – Mount Washington

     40 –  Surf bird  – Crab dock

     41 –  American widgeon  – Stone island mudflats

 42 –  Pacific loon  – Stone island mudflats

 43 –  Red breasted merganser  –  Grice Bay

 44 –  Greater scaup  –  Grice Bay

 45 –  Yellow billed loon  –  Grice Bay

 46 –  House sparrow  –  240 Neill Street, Tofino

 47 –  Dunlin  –  Crab dock, Tofino

 48 –  Dark eyed juncos  –  240 Neill Street, Tofino

 49 –  Kill deer  –  Tugwell fields, Ucluelet

 50 –  Rock doves  – Wickaninnish Elementary schoolTofino

 51 –  Chestnut backed chickadee  –  Port Alberni Beaver pond

 52 –  Winter wren  –  Port Alberni Beaver pond

 53 –  Ring necked duck  –  Port Alberni Beaver pond

 54 –  Golden crowned kinglet  –  Port Alberni Beaver pond

 55 –  Song sparrow – Port Alberni sewage lagoons

 56 –  Gadwall – Port Alberni sewage lagoons

 57 –  Northern pintail – Port Alberni sewage lagoons

 58 – Northern shoveller – Port Alberni sewage lagoons

 59 – Canada goose  –  Grice Bay

 60 – Eurasian collared dove – 240 Neill Street, Tofino

 61 – White crowned sparrow – 240 Neill Street, Tofino    

 62 – Violet green swallow – Sobo, Tofino   

 63 – Red breasted nuthach – Port Alberni  

 64 – Turkey vulture –Nanaimo 

 65 – Brewers blackbird – Nanaimo   

 66 –  Coopers hawk –Crofton ferry 

 67 –  Pigeon gillemot – Crofton ferry    

 68 –  Rufous hummingbird –Saltspring Island

 69 –  Barred owl – Saltspring Island    

 70 –  Ring neck pheasant – Saltspring Island     

 71 –  Harlequin duck – Saltspring Island     

 72 –  Northern harrier – Reifel refuge, Delta

 73 –  Lesser scaup – Reifel refuge, Delta

 74 –  Snow goose – Reifel refuge, Delta

 75 –  Wood duck – Reifel refuge, Delta

 76 –  American coot – Reifel refuge, Delta

 77 –  Red winged blackbird – Reifel refuge, Delta

 78 –  Brown headed cowbird – Reifel refuge, Delta

 79 –  Golden crowned sparrow – Reifel refuge, Delta

 80 –  Cedar waxwing – Reifel refuge, Delta

 81 –  Tree swallow – Reifel refuge, Delta

 82 –  Marsh wren – Reifel refuge, Delta

 83 –  Greater yellow legs – Reifel refuge, Delta

 84 –  Green winged teal – Reifel refuge, Delta

 85 –  Sandhill crane – Reifel refuge, Delta

 86 –  Black crowned night heron – Reifel refuge, Delta

 87 –  Black capped chickadee – Reifel refuge, Delta

 88 –  Downy woodpecker –Englishman river, Errington

 89 –  Common loon – Marina west dock, Tofino

 90 –  Marbled Godwit –Deadman island sandbar

 91 –  House finch – St Columba church, Tofino
 92 – Sharp Shinned Hawk, Tofino airport
 93 – Caspian Tern, Clayoquot Island Spit
 94 – Whimbrel, Clayoquot Island Spit
 95 – Common Murre, Crab Dock Tofino
 96 – Black Bellied Plover, near Frank Island, Tofino
 97 – Semi-palmated Plover, near Frank Island, Tofino
 98 – Osprey, Jensen's Bay, Tofino
 99 – American Dipper, Qualicum Falls
100 – Pileated Woodpecker, Port Alberni Beaver Pond
101 – Hairy Woodpecker, Port Alberni Beaver Pond
102 – Savannah Sparrow, the Crab dock, Olsen Rd, Tofino
103 – Western sandpiper, the Crab Dock, Olsen Rd, Tofino
104 – Least sandpiper, the Crab Dock, Olsen Rd, Tofino
105 – Barn swallow, Jamies Whaling Station dock, Tofino
106 – Marbled murrelets, Jamie's boat trip
107 – Sanderlings, Jamie's boat trip
108 – Rhinoceros auklet, Jamie's boat trip
109 – Brant goose, Jamie's boat trip
110 – Herring gull, Jamie's boat trip
111 – White winged scoter, Pelagic trip
112 – Sooty Shearwater, Pelagic trip
113 – Pink-footed shearwater, Pelagic trip
114 – California Gull, Pelagic trip
115 – Northern Fulmar, Pelagic trip
116 – Sabine's gull, Pelagic trip
117 – Red-necked phalarope, Pelagic trip
118 – Cassin's auklet, Pelagic trip
119 – Black-footed albatross, Pelagic trip
120 – Semi-palmated sandpiper! low tide mudflats by boat
121 – Short-billed dowitcher, low tide mudflats by boat
122 – Long-billed dowitcher, Tofino airport
123 – Blue-winged teal, Tofino airport
124 – Peregrine falcon, Schooner cove, near Esowista
125 – Red Knot, Greenpoint
126 – Rough-winged swallow, Florencia bay at Lost Shoe creek
127 – Golden plover, Florencia Bay
128 – Black scoter, Florencia Bay 
129 – Horned Grebe, Incinerator Rock
130 – Spotted Sandpiper, Crab Dock Tofino
131 – Merlin  School field
132 – American Goldfinch, Fourth St, Tofino
133 – Pectoral Sandpiper, Tofino Airport
134 – Bandtailed Pigeon, Port Alberni sewage lagoons
135 – Common Yellowthroat, Port Alberni sewage lagoons
136 – Bushtit, Port Alberni sewage lagoons
137 – Yellow warbler, Port Alberni sewage lagoons
138 – Pacific Slope Flycatcher, Port Alberni sewage lagoons
139 – Cackling Goose, Port Alberni sewage lagoons
140 – Vesper sparrow, Port Alberni sewage lagoons
141 – Redbreasted sapsucker, Burde St, Port Alberni
142 – Swainson's thrush, Burde St, Port Alberni
143 – Western tanager, Burde St, Port Alberni
144 – Tufted Puffins, Cleland Island
145 – Yellow rumped warbler, Strathcona Park
146 – Sooty Grouse, Strathcone Park
147 – Snowy Plover! Florencia Bay
148 – Common Nighthawk, Tofino
149 – Wilson's Warbler, Connector trail, Tofino
150 – McGillivray's warbler, Tofino golf course
151 – Bewick's wren, Buttertubs Marsh Nanaimo
152 – Evening Grosbeak, Pemberton, Mile One parking lot
153 – Indigo Bunting, Pemberton Meadows Road
154 – Clark's nutcracker, Upper Joffre Lake
155 – Townsend's solitaire, Upper Joffre Lake
156 – Pine Siskin, Upper Joffre lake
157 – Red Crossbill, Ucluelet
158 – Brown Creeper, near Sutton Pass
159 – Hammond's Flycatcher, near Sutton Pass
160 – Hutton's Vireo, near Sutton Pass
161 – Black Headed Grosbeak, near Sutton Pass 
162 – Lesser Yellowlegs, Chesterman's Beach
163 – Wandering Tattler, Chetarpe rocks
164 – Townsend's Warbler, Island Beach, Catface
165 – Heerman's Gull, Calmus Passage
166 – Ruddy Turnstone, Cleland Island Ecological reserve
167 – Bonaparte's gull, Oyster Bay, Vancouver Island
168 – Ring Billed gull, Oyster Bay, Vancouver Island
169 – Purple Martin, Oyster Bay, Vancouver Island
170 – Gray Catbird, Tofino Airport
171 – Vaux's swifts, Sutton Pass area
172 – Warbling Vireo, Green Lake
173 – Mountain Chickadee, Whistler Mountain
174 – Rosy finches, Whistler Mountain
175 – Solitary sandpiper, Nahmint Lake
176 – Lincoln's sparrow, Tofino airport
177 – Black swifts, Tofino airport
178 – American pipit – Tofino airport
179 – Black billed magpie, Calgary airport
180 – American crow, Calgary airport
181 – Blue jay, Nova Scotia
182 – Mourning dove, Nov Scotia
183 – Great Black Backed Gull, Nova Scotia
184 – Great cormorant, Shediac Nova Scotia
185 – Ruffed gourse, Nova Scotia
186 – Northern Gannet, ferry to Newfoundland
187 – Red phalarope, ferry to Newfoundland
188 – Atlantic Puffin, Gull Island, Newfoundland
189 – Black legged kittiwake, Newfoundland
190 – Black and white warbler, Notre Dame, Newfoundland
191 – White throated sparrow, Notre Dame, Newfoundland
192 – White-winged grosbeak, Gros Morne trail, Newfoundland
193 – Boreal chickadees, Newfoundland
194 – Black-throated green warbler, Newfoundland Koa campground
195 – Common Eider, Green Point, Newfoundland
196 – Black-headed gull, Green point, Newfoundland
197 – Lapland longsupr, Green Point, Newfoundland
198 – Nashville warbler, Cape Ray, Newfoundland
199 – American Black Duck, Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia
200 – Pied billed grebe, New Brunswick
201 – Aleutian Cackling goose, Tofino
202 – Tropical kingbird, Tofino
203 – Blue-gray gnatcatcher, Clayoquot Island
204 – Thayer's gull, Clayoquot island spit
205 – Northern shrike, Comber's beach
206 – Greater white fronted goose, Comber's beach
207 – Mountain bluebird, Piper's Lagoon, Nanaimo
208 – Ruby-crowned kinglet, Nanaimo harbourfront
209 – Great horned owl, Riefel bird sanctuary
210 – Sawwhet owl, Riefel bird sanctuary
211 – American kestrel, Saanich peninsula
212 – Mute swan, Victoria
213 – Long-tailed duck, Victoria
214 – Sky lark, Saanich peninsula
215 – Canvasback, Victoria
216 – Ruddy duck, Swan Lake
217 – Short-eared owl, Roberts Bank
THE END!!!!!