Birds of Quebec
559 bird species have been recorded in Quebec on the eBird network — explore the 558 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
559 bird species have been recorded in Quebec on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 558 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
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
American Barn OwlTyto furcata
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
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
American WigeonMareca americana
American WoodcockScolopax minor
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
Amethyst-throated MountaingemLampornis amethystinus
Ancient MurreletSynthliboramphus antiquus
Anna’s HummingbirdCalypte anna
The full checklist — 558 birds of Quebec in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- African Collared Dove
- Alder Flycatcher
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Crow
- 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
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Atlantic Canary
- Atlantic Puffin
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Bar-headed Goose
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barred Owl
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bicknell’s Thrush
- Black Guillemot
- Black Scoter
- Black Skimmer
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- 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 Vireo
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- 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 Sparrow
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Bobolink
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Boreal Chickadee
- Boreal Owl
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown Booby
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- Canada Goose
- Canada Jay
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chiloe Wigeon
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- Clapper Rail
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cockatiel
- 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 Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Murre
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Pochard
- Common Quail
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Scoter
- Common Shelduck
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Waxbill
- Common Wood Pigeon
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Coscoroba Swan
- Crested Caracara
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Screech Owl
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Warbling Vireo
- Eastern Whip-poor-will
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Egyptian Goose
- Emperor Goose
- Eskimo Curlew
- Eurasian Bullfinch
- Eurasian Chaffinch
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Coot
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Siskin
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Whimbrel
- Eurasian Wigeon
- European Golden Plover
- European Goldfinch
- European Greenfinch
- European Herring Gull
- European Robin
- Evening Grosbeak
- Field Sparrow
- Fieldfare
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Fish Crow
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Gambel’s Quail
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden Pheasant
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Gouldian Finch
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Shearwater
- Great Tit
- Great White Pelican
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Kingbird
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Grey-crowned Goldfinch
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
- Greylag Goose
- Gull-billed Tern
- Gyrfalcon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Hawk
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- Hermit Warbler
- Hooded Crow
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Oriole
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Iceland Gull
- Indian Peafowl
- Indian Spot-billed Duck
- Indigo Bunting
- Ivory Gull
- Japanese Quail
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- King Quail
- King Rail
- Kirtland’s Warbler
- Labrador Duck
- Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Dove
- Laughing Gull
- Lavender Waxbill
- Lazuli Bunting
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lesson’s Seedeater
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Auk
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Egret
- Little Gull
- Little Stint
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Murrelet
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-tailed Paradise Whydah
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Manx Shearwater
- Marbled Duck
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin
- Mexican Violetear
- Mississippi Kite
- Mitred Parakeet
- Monk Parakeet
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Quail
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- 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 Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shrike
- Northern Waterthrush
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-cheeked Waxbill
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Loon
- Painted Bunting
- Painted Whitestart
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Passenger Pigeon
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied Crow
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Pink-footed Goose
- Piping Plover
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Razorbill
- Red Avadavat
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Tanager
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-billed Leiothrix
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-crested Cardinal
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-headed Finch
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Redwing
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Teal
- Rock Dove
- Rock Partridge
- Rock Ptarmigan
- 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
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sage Thrasher
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Sandwich Tern
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- 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
- Siberian Sand Plover
- Silver Pheasant
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Small-billed Elaenia
- Smith’s Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Song Thrush
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- South African Shelduck
- Spotted Dove
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Spruce Grouse
- Steller’s Eider
- Steller’s Jay
- Steller’s Sea Eagle
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Streak-backed Oriole
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Summer Tanager
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Taiga Bean Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Murre
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Tropical Kingbird
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Bean Goose
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Veery
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Virginia Rail
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Grebe
- Western Jackdaw
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Tanager
- Western Wood Pewee
- White Wagtail
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-rumped Munia
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Kite
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- White-winged Tern
- Whooper Swan
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- 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
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-green Vireo
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-legged Gull
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Zebra Dove
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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 Quebec?
559 species have been recorded in Quebec on eBird; 558 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Quebec 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.