Birds of Canada
800 bird species have been recorded in Canada on the eBird network — explore the 799 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
800 bird species have been recorded in Canada on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 799 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.
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Birds to know first
Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
Altamira OrioleIcterus gularis
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
American Barn OwlTyto furcata
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
American Black SwiftCypseloides niger
American BushtitPsaltriparus minimus
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
American DipperCinclus mexicanus
American Dusky FlycatcherEmpidonax oberholseri
American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
American Grey FlycatcherEmpidonax wrightii
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
American PipitAnthus rubescens
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
American RobinTurdus migratorius
American Three-toed WoodpeckerPicoides dorsalis
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
American White IbisEudocimus albus
American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
The full checklist — 799 birds of Canada in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- Acorn Woodpecker
- African Collared Dove
- Alder Flycatcher
- Altamira Oriole
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- American Black Swift
- American Bushtit
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Dipper
- American Dusky Flycatcher
- American Flamingo
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Goshawk
- American Grey Flycatcher
- American Herring Gull
- American Kestrel
- American Oystercatcher
- American Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Three-toed Woodpecker
- American Tree Sparrow
- American White Ibis
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- American Woodcock
- American Yellow Warbler
- Amethyst-throated Mountaingem
- Ancient Murrelet
- Anhinga
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Arctic Tern
- Arctic Warbler
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Atlantic Canary
- Atlantic Puffin
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Bachman’s Sparrow
- Baikal Teal
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Baird’s Sparrow
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-rumped Storm Petrel
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barolo Shearwater
- Barred Owl
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Sparrow
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bendire’s Thrasher
- Bermuda Petrel
- Bewick’s Wren
- Bicknell’s Thrush
- Black Guillemot
- Black Oystercatcher
- Black Phoebe
- Black Rail
- Black Scoter
- Black Skimmer
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black Turnstone
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-billed Magpie
- Black-browed Albatross
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-capped Petrel
- Black-capped Vireo
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-footed Albatross
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-tailed Gull
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- Black-throated Loon
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Black-vented Shearwater
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue-footed Booby
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Bluethroat
- Bobolink
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Boreal Chickadee
- Boreal Owl
- Brambling
- Brandt’s Cormorant
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- Bridled Tern
- Bristle-thighed Curlew
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown Booby
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Shrike
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Buller’s Shearwater
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- California Quail
- California Scrub Jay
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Canada Goose
- Canada Jay
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Canyon Wren
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Auklet
- Cassin’s Finch
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Cassin’s Vireo
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut Teal
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Chilean Flamingo
- Chiloe Wigeon
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- Citrine Wagtail
- Clapper Rail
- Clark’s Grebe
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cockatiel
- Cocos Booby
- Collared Finchbill
- Common Blackbird
- Common Crane
- Common Cuckoo
- Common Eider
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Greenshank
- Common Ground Dove
- Common Gull
- Common Hill Myna
- Common Kestrel
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Murre
- Common Myna
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Pochard
- Common Poorwill
- Common Quail
- Common Redshank
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Scoter
- Common Shelduck
- Common Snipe
- Common Starling
- Common Swift
- Common Tern
- Common Waxbill
- Common Wood Pigeon
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cook’s Petrel
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Corn Crake
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Coscoroba Swan
- Costa’s Hummingbird
- Crested Auklet
- Crested Caracara
- Crested Myna
- Crested Pigeon
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Demoiselle Crane
- Desertas Petrel
- Diamond Dove
- Dickcissel
- Double-barred Finch
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Dusky Grouse
- Dusky Thrush
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Screech Owl
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Warbling Vireo
- Eastern Whip-poor-will
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Egyptian Goose
- Elegant Tern
- Emperor Goose
- Emu
- Eskimo Curlew
- Eurasian Blue Tit
- Eurasian Bullfinch
- Eurasian Chaffinch
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Coot
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Dotterel
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Eurasian Siskin
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Whimbrel
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Eurasian Woodcock
- European Golden Plover
- European Goldfinch
- European Greenfinch
- European Herring Gull
- European Robin
- European Storm Petrel
- Evening Grosbeak
- Falcated Duck
- Far Eastern Curlew
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Field Sparrow
- Fieldfare
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Fish Crow
- Flammulated Owl
- Flesh-footed Shearwater
- Florida Scrub Jay
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Fork-tailed Storm Petrel
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Gambel’s Quail
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden Pheasant
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Gouldian Finch
- Grace’s Warbler
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Kiskadee
- Great Shearwater
- Great Skua
- Great Tit
- Great White Pelican
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Prairie Chicken
- Greater Sand Plover
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-cheeked Parakeet
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Heron
- Grey Kingbird
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Grey-crowned Goldfinch
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
- Grey-headed Chickadee
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Greylag Goose
- Groove-billed Ani
- Guadalupe Murrelet
- Gull-billed Tern
- Gyrfalcon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Hawk
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Hawaiian Petrel
- Hawfinch
- Heermann’s Gull
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- Hermit Warbler
- Hooded Crow
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Oriole
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- Horned Puffin
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Hutton’s Vireo
- Iceland Gull
- Inca Dove
- Indian Peafowl
- Indian Spot-billed Duck
- Indigo Bunting
- Ivory Gull
- Jack Snipe
- Japanese Quail
- Java Sparrow
- Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
- Kelp Gull
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- King Quail
- King Rail
- Kirtland’s Warbler
- Kittlitz’s Murrelet
- Labrador Duck
- Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Dove
- Laughing Gull
- Lavender Waxbill
- Laysan Albatross
- Lazuli Bunting
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Least Auklet
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lesson’s Seedeater
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Limpkin
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Auk
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Bunting
- Little Corella
- Little Egret
- Little Gull
- Little Stint
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Murrelet
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Lucy’s Warbler
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Manx Shearwater
- Marbled Duck
- Marbled Godwit
- Marbled Murrelet
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Marsh Wren
- Masked Booby
- McKay’s Bunting
- Merlin
- Mexican Violetear
- Mississippi Kite
- Mistle Thrush
- Mitred Parakeet
- Monk Parakeet
- Mottled Duck
- Mottled Petrel
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Chickadee
- Mountain Plover
- Mountain Pygmy Owl
- Mountain Quail
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Murphy’s Petrel
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nanday Parakeet
- Nashville Warbler
- Nazca Booby
- Nelson’s Sparrow
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Hawk-Owl
- Northern House Wren
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Red Bishop
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shrike
- Northern Waterthrush
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-backed Pipit
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Oriental Greenfinch
- Oriental Turtle Dove
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Loon
- Pacific Swift
- Pacific Wren
- Painted Bunting
- Painted Whitestart
- Pallas’s Reed Bunting
- Palm Warbler
- Parakeet Auklet
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Passenger Pigeon
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Pelagic Cormorant
- Peregrine Falcon
- Phainopepla
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied Crow
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pigeon Guillemot
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Bunting
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Pink-footed Goose
- Pink-footed Shearwater
- Pinyon Jay
- Piping Plover
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Razorbill
- Red Avadavat
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Tanager
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-bellied Parrot
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-billed Leiothrix
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-billed Tropicbird
- Red-breasted Goose
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Sapsucker
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-crested Cardinal
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-faced Cormorant
- Red-flanked Bluetail
- Red-footed Booby
- Red-headed Finch
- Red-headed Lovebird
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-legged Kittiwake
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-rumped Parrot
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Reddish Egret
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Redwing
- Reeves’s Pheasant
- Rhinoceros Auklet
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Dove
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Teal
- Rock Dove
- Rock Partridge
- Rock Ptarmigan
- Rock Sandpiper
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Roseate Tern
- Ross’s Goose
- Ross’s Gull
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Royal Tern
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Ruffed Grouse
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rustic Bunting
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Saffron Finch
- Sage Grouse
- Sage Thrasher
- Sagebrush Sparrow
- Saltmarsh Sparrow
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Sandwich Tern
- Sargasso Shearwater
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scarlet Ibis
- Scarlet Macaw
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Scopoli’s Shearwater
- Scott’s Oriole
- Scripps’s Murrelet
- Seaside Sparrow
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Sharp-tailed Grouse
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Shiny Cowbird
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-billed Gull
- Short-eared Owl
- Short-tailed Albatross
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Siberian Accentor
- Siberian Pipit
- Siberian Rubythroat
- Siberian Sand Plover
- Siberian Stonechat
- Silver Pheasant
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Slender-billed Curlew
- Small-billed Elaenia
- Smew
- Smith’s Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Song Thrush
- Sooty Grouse
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- South African Shelduck
- South Polar Skua
- Southern Red Bishop
- Spectacled Eider
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper
- Spotted Dove
- Spotted Owl
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Spruce Grouse
- Steller’s Eider
- Steller’s Jay
- Steller’s Sea Eagle
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Streak-backed Oriole
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Summer Tanager
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Surf Scoter
- Surfbird
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swainson’s Warbler
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Taiga Bean Goose
- Taiga Flycatcher
- Temminck’s Stint
- Tennessee Warbler
- Terek Sandpiper
- Thick-billed Kingbird
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Thick-billed Murre
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Trindade Petrel
- Tropical Kingbird
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tufted Puffin
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Bean Goose
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Bunting
- Varied Thrush
- Variegated Flycatcher
- Vaux’s Swift
- Veery
- Vega Gull
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Virginia Rail
- Virginia’s Warbler
- Wandering Tattler
- Western Bluebird
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Flycatcher
- Western Grebe
- Western Gull
- Western Jackdaw
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Reef Heron
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Screech Owl
- Western Tanager
- Western Warbling Vireo
- Western Wood Pewee
- White Wagtail
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-cheeked Starling
- White-collared Swift
- White-crowned Pigeon
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eared Bulbul
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-faced Storm Petrel
- White-headed Woodpecker
- White-rumped Munia
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Kite
- White-tailed Ptarmigan
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-throated Swift
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- White-winged Tern
- Whooper Swan
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- Williamson’s Sapsucker
- Willow Flycatcher
- Willow Ptarmigan
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Plover
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Stork
- Wood Thrush
- Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Xantus’s Hummingbird
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-breasted Bunting
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-green Vireo
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-legged Gull
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Zebra Dove
- Zone-tailed Hawk
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Birds of Canada by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Canada (77 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Canada (59 species)
- New World Warblers of Canada (45 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Canada (43 species)
- New World Sparrows of Canada (33 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Canada (30 species)
- Pheasants, Grouse & Allies of Canada (25 species)
- True Finches of Canada (23 species)
- Petrels & Shearwaters of Canada (22 species)
- Auks, Murres & Puffins of Canada (20 species)
- New World Blackbirds & Orioles of Canada (19 species)
- Hawks, Eagles & Kites of Canada (18 species)
- Pigeons & Doves of Canada (18 species)
- Thrushes of Canada (18 species)
Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in Canada?
800 species have been recorded in Canada on eBird; 799 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Canada right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.