Bird Watching on Haida Gwaii

With over 1.5 million seabirds nesting along the coast, Haida Gwaii is a birder’s paradise.

In addition to seabirds, there are many other captivating avian species who call this sprawling island archipelago home. Here are just a few of the ones that visiting bird watchers often have on their checklists.

• Bald Eagle

• Sharp-shinned Hawk

• Northern Goshawk

• Red-tailed Hawk

• Peregrine Falcon

• Sandhill Crane

• Semipalmated Plover

• Killdeer

• Black Oystercatcher

• Belted Kingfisher

• Canada Goose

• Great Blue Heron

• Mallard

• Blue-winged Teal

• Green-winged Teal

• Bufflehead

• Harlequin Duck

• Sooty Grouse

• Northern Saw-whet Owl

• Rufous Hummingbird

• Pelagic Cormorant

• Barrow's Goldeneye

• Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel

• Leach's Storm-Petrel

• Short-billed Dowitcher

• Spotted Sandpiper

• Greater Yellowlegs

• Least Sandpiper

• Red-breasted Sapsucker
  

• Hooded Merganser

• Common Merganser

• Red-breasted Merganser

• Red-throated Loon

• Common Loon

• Common Murre

• Pigeon Guillemot

• Marbled Murrelet

• Ancient Murrelet

• Cassin's Auklet

• Rhinoceros Auklet

• Horned Puffin

• Tufted Puffin

• Northern Flicker

• Pacific-slope Flycatcher

• Steller's Jay

• Northwestern Crow

• Common Raven

• Black-footed Albatross

• Wilson's Snipe

• Mew Gull

• Glaucous-winged Gull

• Pacific Wren

• American Dipper

• Golden-crowned Kinglet

• Cedar Waxwing

• Tree Swallow

• Barn Swallow

• Chestnut-backed Chickadee

• Red-breasted Nuthatch

• Brown Creeper

• Swainson's Thrush

• Hermit Thrush

• Varied Thrush

• Hairy Woodpecker

• Pine Siskin

• Fox Sparrow

• Song Sparrow

• Lincoln's Sparrow

• Dark-eyed Junco

• Pine Grosbeak

• Red Crossbill

• Wilson's Warbler

• Orange-crowned Warbler

• Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)

• Townsend's Warbler