Tantramar Tourism Association's Touring Tantramar Series

No. 5

The online Touring Tantramar Series:

Discovering the Marshes of Tantramar

Discovering the Waterways of Tantramar

Discovering the Wildlife of Tantramar

Discovering the History of Tantramar

Discovering the Beaches of Tantramar

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DISCOVERING THE WILDLIFE OF TANTRAMAR

Tantramar Checklist

Loons

  • Common Loon

Grebes

  • Pied-billed Grebe

Gannets

  • Northern Gannet Cormorants

Cormorant

  • Great Cormorant
  • Double-crested Cormorant

Herons & Bitterns

  • American Bittern
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Green Heron
  • Black-crowned Night Heron

Ducks & Geese

  • Canada Goose
  • Wood Duck
  • Green-winged Teal
  • American Black Duck
  • Mallard
  • Northern Pintail
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Gadwall
  • American Wigeon
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Greater Scaup
  • Common Eider
  • Common Goldeneye
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Common Merganser
  • Red-breasted Merganser
  • Ruddy Duck

Hawks, Eagles, Harriers and Falcons

  • Osprey
  • Bald Eagle
  • Northern Harrier
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Northern Goshawk
  • Broad-winged Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon

Pheasants and Quails

  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Ruffed Grouse

Rails and Coots

  • Yellow Rail
  • Virginia Rail
  • Sora
  • Common Moorhen
  • American Coot

Plovers and Turnstones

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Piping Plover
  • Killdeer
  • American Golden Plover

Woodcock, Snipe and Sandpipers

  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Willet
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Whimbrel
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Red Knot
  • Sanderling
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Common Snipe
  • American Woodcock

Phalaropes

  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Red-necked Phalarope

Gulls and Terns

  • Bonaparte's Gull
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Common Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Black Tern

Pigeons & Doves

  • Rock Dove
  • Mourning Dove

Cuckoos

  • Black-billed Cuckoo

Owls

  • Great Horned Owl
  • Barred Owl
  • Long-eared Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Northern Saw-whet Owl

Goatsuckers

  • Common Nighthawk
  • Whip-poor-will

Swifts

  • Chimney Swift

Hummingbirds

  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Kingfishers

  • Belted Kingfisher

Woodpeckers

  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Three-toed Woodpecker
  • Black-backedWoodpecker
  • Northern Flicker
  • Pileated Woodpecker

Flycatchers

  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
  • Alder Flycatcher
  • Willow Flycatcher
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Eastern Phoebe
  • Great Crested Flycatcher
  • Eastern Kingbird

Larks

  • Horned Lark Swallows
  • Purple Martin
  • Tree Swallow
  • Bank Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Barn Swallow

Crows and Jays

  • Gray Jay
  • Blue Jay
  • American Crow
  • Common Raven

Chickadees

  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Boreal Chickadee

Nuthatches

  • Red-breasted Nuthatch
  • White-breasted Nuthatch

Creepers

  • Brown Creeper

Wrens

  • Winter Wren
  • Marsh Wren

Kinglets

  • Golden-crowned Kinglet
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Thrushes and Bluebirds

  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Veery
  • Swainson's Thrush
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Wood Thrush
  • American Robin

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

  • Gray Catbird
  • Northern Mockingbird
  • Brown Thrasher

Waxwings

  • Cedar Waxwing

Starlings

  • European Starling

Vireos

  • Blue-headed Vireo
  • Warbling Vireo
  • Philadelphia Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo

Warblers

  • Tennessee Warbler
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Northern Parula Warbler
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Magnolia Warbler
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Black-throated Blue Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Bay-breasted Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Ovenbird
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Mourning Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Wilson's Warbler
  • Canada Warbler

Tanagers

  • Scarlet Tanager

Grosbeaks, Sparrows, Finches and Buntings

  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Vesper Sparrow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • Lincoln's Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • White-throated Sparrow
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • Indigo Bunting

Meadowlarks, Blackbirds and Orioles

  • Bobolink
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Rusty Blackbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Northern Oriole
  • Pine Grosbeak
  • Purple Finch
  • House Finch
  • Red Crossbill
  • White-winged Crossbill
  • Pine Siskin
  • American Goldfinch
  • Evening Grosbeak

Weaver Finches

  • House Sparrow

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