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Birding

Seasonal birding on Vancouver Island presents opportunities to view over 265 species and spectacular scenery.

See our birding checklist below for birds in the greater Campbell River area on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. They are listed in alphabetical order.

This checkmark indicates birds sighted by season at Narrow Escape Vacation Rental ocean front property, just north of Campbell River, but within the boundaries of the greater Campbell River area.

Right: Steller's Jay – Provincial
bird of British Columbia, Canada

Stellar Jay


Spring Summer Autumn Winter Backyard
bird list
Blackbirds & Orioles
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
  Brown-headed Cowbird
    Bullock's Oriole
         

 

          Bushtits
Bushtit
        Chickadees
Chestnut Backed Chickadee
           
          Cormorants
      Brandt's Cormorant
Double-Crested Cormorant (Yellow bill)
  Small Pelagic Cormorant
           
Spring Summer Autumn Winter Backyard
bird list
Cranes
      Sandhill Crane
           
          Creepers
Brown Creeper
           
          Crows, Magpies & Jays
 

Gray Jay

Steller's Jay
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
           
          Dippers
American Dipper
Spring Summer Autumn Winter Backyard
bird list
Ducks, Geese & Swans
  American Wigeon
  Barrow's Goldeneye
    Black Scoter
      Brandt
  Bufflehead
Canada Goose
      Canvasback
    Common Goldeneye
Common Merganzer
  Eurasian Wigeon
  Greater Scaup
  Greater White-fronted Goose
Green-winged Teal
  Hooded Merganzer
Harlequin Duck
  Lesser Scaup
    Long-tailed Duck
Mallard
    Northern Pintail
    Northern Shoveler
  Red-breasted Merganzer
    Ring-necked Duck
Surf Scoter
  Trumpeter Swan
White-winged Scoter
  Wood Duck
           
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bird list
Falcons
  Merlin
  Peregrine Falcon
           
          Finches
  American Goldfinch
  Evening Grosbeak
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Purple Finch
  Red Crossbill
           
          Goatsuckers
      Common Nighthawk
           
          Grebes
    Horned Grebe
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Red-necked Grebe
    Western Grebe
           
Spring Summer Autumn Winter Backyard
bird list
Grosbeaks & Buntings
  Black-headed Grosbeak
           
          Grouse
  Blue Grouse
  Ring-necked Pheasant
Ruffed Grouse
  White-tailed Ptarmigan
           
          Hawks & Eagles
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
    Northern Harrier
      Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
           
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Herons
Great Blue Heron
      Green Heron
           
          Hummingbirds
    Rufous Hummingbird
           
          Kingfishers
Belted Kingfisher
           
          Kinglets
Golden-crowned Kinglet
  Ruby-crowned Kinglet
           
          Loons
Common Loon
  Pacific Loon
  Red-throated Loon
           
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Murres, Auks & Puffin
Common Murre
Marbled Murrelet
Pigeon Guillemot
  Rhinoceros Auklet
           
          New World Quail
  California Quail
           
          New World Vultures
  Turkey Vulture
           
          Nuthatches
Red-breasted Nuthatch
           
          Old World Sparrows
  House Sparrow
           
          Oystercatchers
  Black Oystercatcher
           
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Backyard
bird list
Owls
  Barn Owl
  Barred Owl
  Great Horned Owl
  Northern Pygmy Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
  Western Screech-Owl
           
          Pigeons & Doves
  Band-tailed Pigeon
  Rock Dove
           
          Pipits
    American Pipit
           
          Plovers
  Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
      Semi-palmated Plover
           
          Rails & Coots
    American Coot
    Virginia Rail
           
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Sandpipers & Phalaropes
    Black Turnstone
  Common Snipe
    Dunlin
      Greater Yellowlegs
      Least Sandpiper
      Lesser Yellowlegs
      Long-billed Dowitcher
      Red-necked Phalarope
    Sanderling
      Spotted Sandpiper
    Surfbird
      Western Sandpiper
      Whimbrel
           
          Shrikes
    Northern Shrike
           
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Skuas, Gulls & Terns
  Bonaparte's Gull
    California Gull
    Caspian Tern
      Common Tern
Glaucous-winged Gull
    Herring Gull
Mew Gull
        Parasitic Jaeger
    Ring-billed Gull
    Thayer's Gull
           
          Sparrows & Longspurs
    Chipping Sparrow
Dark-Eyed Junco
  Fox Sparrow
  Golden-crowned Sparrow
  Lincoln's Sparrow
  Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
           
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Backyard
bird list
Starlings
European Starling
           
          Swallows
    Barn Swallow
      Cliff Swallow
      Northern Rough-winged Swallow
      Purple Martin
      Tree Swallow
      Violet-green Swallow
           
          Swifts
        Black Swift
        Vaux's Swift
           
          Tanglers
    Western Tanaager
           
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Thrushes
American Robin
      Hermit Thrush
    Swainson's Thrush
Varied Thrush
           
          Tyrant Flycatchers
      Hammond's Flycatcher
    Olive-sided Flycatcher
      Pacific-slope Flycatcher
      Willow Flycatcher
           
          Vireos
      Cassin's Vireo
        Red-eyed Vireo
      Warbling Vireo
           
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Backyard
bird list
Woodpeckers
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
           
          Waxwings
    Cedar Waxwing
           
          Wood Warblers
      Black-throated Gray Warbler
    Common Yellowthroat
      McGillivray's Warbler
    Orange-crowned Warbler
      Townsend's Warbler
      Yellow Warbler
      Yellow-rumped Warbler
        Wilson's Warbler
           
          Wrens
  Bewick's Wren
    Marsh Wren
Winter Wren

 

Seasonal birding on Vancouver Island presents opportunities to view over 265 species and spectacular scenery.

Contact Narrow Escape Vacation Rental for excellent accomodations while birding or vacationing on Vancouver Island.

 
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