Canada (Manitoba) List 2009
Total species seen so far: 264
Lifers: an incredible 28 - i don’t think i quite expected so many! (They are: Pacific Loon, King Eider, Ferruginous Hawk, Upland Sandpiper, Piping Plover, White-rumped Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, California Gull, Thayer’s Gull, Sabine’s Gull, Whip-poor-will, Chimmney Swift, Burrowing Owl, Great Grey Owl, Say’s Phoebe, Mountain Bluebird, Sprague’s Pipit, Conneticut Warbler, Lark Bunting, Grasshopper Sparrow, Baird’s Sparrow, Eastern Towhee, McCown’s Longspur, Lapland Longspur, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Evening Grosbeak, Pine Grosbeak, Hoary Redpoll)
Birds ringed this year are marked with a *
Ringing ticks: 6 (which are: Blue-winged Teal, Solitary Sandpiper, Belted Kingfisher, Western Kingbird, Northern Cardinal, Black-billed Cuckoo)
| Updated on 14th August 2009 | ||
| Red-throated Loon | 13-Jun | Churchill |
| Pacific Loon | 11-Jun | Churchill |
| Common Loon | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Yellow-billed Loon (A) | ||
| Red-necked Grebe | 03-May | Delta Marsh |
| Horned Grebe | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Eared Grebe | 16-May | Oak Hammock |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Western Grebe | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Clark’s Grebe | ||
| Northern Gannet (A) | ||
| American White Pelican | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| American Bittern | 27-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Least Bittern | 4-Sep | Delta Marsh |
| Great Blue Heron | 24-Apr | Woodlands |
| Great Egret | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Snowy Egret (O) | ||
| Little Blue Heron (O) | 05-Jun | Whitewater |
| Tricolored Heron (O) | ||
| Cattle Egret (R) | 05-Jun | Whitewater |
| Green Heron (R) | ||
| Black-crowned Night Heron | 16-May | Oak Hammock |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron (O) | ||
| White Ibis (A) | ||
| Ibis spp | ||
| Glossy Ibis (A) | ||
| White-faced Ibis (O) | 05-Jun | Whitewater |
| Tundra Swan | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Mute Swan (A) | ||
| Trumpeter Swan (A) | ||
| Greater White-fronted Goose | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Brant | ||
| Canada Goose | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Cackling Goose | 06-May | Delta Marsh |
| Lesser Snow Goose | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Ross’s Goose | 13-Jun | Churchill |
| Wood Duck | 25-Apr | Portage |
| Mallard | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| American Black Duck | 05-Jun | Whitewater |
| Gadwall | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Northern Pintail | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Eurasian Wigeon (A) | ||
| American Wigeon | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Northern Shoveler | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Blue-winged Teal * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Green-winged Teal | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Garganey (A) | ||
| Canvasback | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Cinnamon Teal (A) | ||
| Redhead | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Ring-necked Duck | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Greater Scaup | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Lesser Scaup | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| King Eider (A) | 19-Jun | Churchill |
| Common Eider | 14-Jun | Churchill |
| Harlequin Duck | ||
| Surf Scoter | 11-Jun | Churchill |
| White-winged Scoter | 13-Jun | Churchill |
| Black Scoter | 11-Jun | Churchill |
| Long-tailed Duck | 13-Jun | Churchill |
| Common Goldeneye | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Barrow’s Goldeneye (A) | ||
| Bufflehead | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Hooded Merganser | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Common Merganser | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Red-breasted Merganser | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Ruddy Duck | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Turkey Vulture | 04-May | Delta Marsh |
| Osprey | 23-May | Delta Marsh |
| Northern Harrier | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 15-May | Delta Marsh |
| Northern Goshawk (R) | ||
| Red-shouldered Hawk (O) | ||
| Broad-winged Hawk | 06-May | Delta Marsh |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 05-Jun | Delta Marsh |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 24-Jun | Poverty Plains |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Bald Eagle | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Golden Eagle (R) | ||
| Merlin | 29-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| American Kestrel | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Gyrfalcon (R) | ||
| Prairie Falcon | 14-May | Delta Marsh |
| Peregrine Falcon (R) | 07-May | Delta Marsh |
| Grey Partridge | 04-Jul | Melitta |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | 24-Jun | Melitta |
| Spruce Grouse | ||
| Ruffed Grouse | 09-May | Delta Marsh |
| Sharp-tailed Grouse | 25-Jun | Poverty Plains |
| Willow Ptarmigan | 11-Jun | Churchill |
| Rock Ptarmigan | ||
| Wild Turkey | 05-Jun | Spruce Woods |
| American Coot | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Yellow Rail | ||
| King Rail (A) | ||
| Virginia Rail | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Sora | 30-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Common Moorhen (A) | ||
| Sandhill Crane | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Whooping Crane (A) | ||
| Black-bellied Plover | 17-May | Delta Marsh |
| American Golden Plover | 18-May | Westbourne |
| Semipalmated Plover | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Piping Plover | 23-May | Delta Marsh |
| Killdeer | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| American Avocet | 30-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Black-necked Stilt | ||
| Greater Yellowlegs | 09-May | Delta Marsh |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 06-May | Delta Marsh |
| Solitary Sandpiper * | 15-May | Delta Marsh |
| Willet | 09-May | Delta Marsh |
| Wandering Tatler (A) | ||
| Spotted Sandpiper | 06-May | Delta Marsh |
| Upland Sandpiper | 16-May | near St. Ambroise |
| Eskimo Curlew (Extinct??) | ||
| Whimbrel | 11-Jun | Churchill |
| Long-billed Curlew (A) | ||
| Hudsonian Godwit | 17-May | Delta Marsh |
| Marbled Godwit | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Ruddy Turnstone | 23-May | Delta Marsh |
| Red Knot | ||
| Sanderling | 25-May | Delta Marsh |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Baird’s Sandpiper | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | 18-May | Westbourne |
| Western Sandpiper (A) | ||
| Least Sandpiper | 18-May | Westbourne |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | 05-Jul | Whitewater |
| Purple Sandpiper | 20-Jun | Churchill |
| Dunlin | 18-May | Westbourne |
| Curlew Sandpiper (A) | ||
| Stilt Sandpiper | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | 12-Aug | upper diversion |
| Ruff (A) | ||
| Long-billed Dowitcher | 14-May | Delta Marsh |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | 23-May | St. Marks |
| American Woodcock | 15-May | Delta Marsh |
| Wilson’s Snipe | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Wilson’s Phalarope | 09-May | Delta Marsh |
| Red-necked Phalarope | 05-Jun | Whitewater |
| Red Phalarope | 13-Jun | Churchill |
| Pomerine Jeager | ||
| Parasitic Jeager | 14-Jun | Churchill |
| Long-tailed Jeager | ||
| Little Gull | 13-Jun | Churchill |
| Black-headed Gull (A) | ||
| Laughing Gull (A) | ||
| Bonaparte’s Gull | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Franklin’s Gull | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Mew Gull (A) | ||
| Ring-billed Gull | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| California Gull | 19-May | Hwy 227 Landfill |
| Herring Gull | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Thayer’s Gull | 19-May | Hwy 227 Landfill |
| Iceland Gull | ||
| Lesser Black-backed Gull (A) | ||
| Great Black-backed Gull (A) | ||
| Glaucous-winged Gull (A) | ||
| Glaucous Gull | 09-May | Delta Marsh |
| Sabine’s Gull | 15-Jun | Churchill |
| Black-legged Kitiwake (A) | ||
| Ross’s Gull | ||
| Ivory Gull (A) | ||
| Caspian Tern | 09-May | Delta Marsh |
| Common Tern | 15-May | Delta Marsh |
| Artic Tern | 11-Jun | Churchill |
| Forster’s Tern | 24-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Least Tern (A) | ||
| White-winged Tern (A) | ||
| Black Tern | 15-May | Delta Marsh |
| Dovekie (A) | ||
| Black Guillemot | ||
| Ancient Murrelet (A) | ||
| Rock Pigeon (Dove) | 05-May | Portage la Prairie |
| Band-tailed Pigeon (A) | ||
| White-winged Pigeon (A) | ||
| Mourning Dove * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Black-billed Cuckoo * | 04-Jul | Broomhill |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | ||
| Barn Owl (O) | ||
| Eastern Screech Owl | ||
| Snowy Owl | ||
| Northern Hawk Owl | ||
| Burrowing Owl | 04-Jul | (Confidential) |
| Barred Owl | ||
| Great Grey Owl | 28-Jun | Riding Mountain |
| Long-eared Owl | ||
| Short-eared Owl | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Great Horned Owl | 27-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Boreal Owl | ||
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | 20-Jul | Delta Marsh |
| Common Nighthawk | 25-May | Delta Marsh |
| Whip-poor-will | 12-May | Delta Marsh |
| Chimney Swift | 29-Jul | Portage la Prairie |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 18-May | Delta Marsh |
| Rufous Hummingbird (O) | ||
| Belted Kingfisher * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Lewis’s Woodpecker (O) | ||
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 05-Jun | Spruce Woods |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker (O) | ||
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Downy Woodpecker * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Three-toed Woodpecker | 27-Jun | Duck Mountain |
| Black-backed Woodpecker | ||
| Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 27-Jun | Duck Mountain |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | 31-May | Delta Marsh |
| Western Wood-Pewee | ||
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 02-Jun | Delta Marsh |
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher * | 21-May | Delta Marsh |
| Alder Flycatcher * | 20-May | Delta Marsh |
| Willow Flycatcher | ||
| Least Flycatcher * | 11-May | Delta Marsh |
| Eastern Phoebe * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Say’s Phoebe | 26-Jun | Lyleton |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 25-May | Delta Beach |
| Eastern Kingbird * | 18-May | Delta Marsh |
| Western Kingbird * | 23-May | Delta Marsh |
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (O) | ||
| Loggerhead Shrike | 24-Jun | Poverty Plains |
| Northern Shrike | ||
| White-eyed Vireo (A) | ||
| Red-eyed Vireo * | 21-May | Delta Marsh |
| Warbling Vireo * | 25-May | Delta Beach |
| Philadelphia Vireo * | 31-May | Delta Marsh |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 07-Jun | Riding Mountain |
| Blue-headed Vireo | 31-May | Delta Marsh |
| Blue Jay * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Gray Jay | 07-Jun | Riding Mountain |
| Western Scrub Jay (A) | ||
| Pinyon Jay (A) | ||
| Clark’s Nutcracker (A) | ||
| Black-billed Magpie | 28-May | Poplar Point |
| Common Raven | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| American Crow | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Horned Lark | 19-May | Fulton’s Corner |
| Purple Martin | 16-May | Oak Hammock |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 31-May | Delta Marsh |
| Bank Swallow | 13-May | Delta Marsh |
| Tree Swallow * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Violet-green Swallow (A) | ||
| Cliff Swallow | 09-May | Delta Marsh |
| Barn Swallow * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Black-capped Chickadee * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Boreal Chickadee | 08-Jun | Riding Mountain |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch * | 29-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Brown Creeper * | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Rock Wren (A) | ||
| Carolina Wren (A) | ||
| House Wren * | 06-May | Delta Marsh |
| Winter Wren | 30-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Sedge Wren | 20-May | Delta Marsh |
| Marsh Wren | 11-May | Delta Marsh |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet * | 29-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Blue-grey Gnatcatcher (A) | ||
| Northern Wheatear (O) | ||
| Mountain Bluebird | 25-Jun | Lyleton |
| Eastern Bluebird | 16-May | near St. Ambroise |
| Townend’s Solitaire (O) | ||
| American Robin * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Veery * | 13-May | Delta Marsh |
| Swainson’s Thrush * | 03-May | Delta Marsh |
| Grey-cheeked Thrush * | 13-May | Delta Marsh |
| Hermit Thrush * | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Wood Thrush (O) | ||
| Varied Thrush (R) | ||
| Grey Catbird * | 15-May | Delta Marsh |
| Northern Mockingbird | ||
| Sage Thrasher (A) | ||
| Brown Thrasher * | 12-May | Delta Marsh |
| Curve-billed Thrasher (A) | ||
| European Starling | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| American Pipit | 18-May | Westbourne |
| Sprague’s Pipit | 24-Jun | Poverty Plains |
| Bohemian Waxwing | ||
| Cedar Waxwing * | 24-May | Delta Marsh |
| Blue-winged Warbler (A) | ||
| Golden-winged Warbler | 29-Jun | Riding Mountain |
| Orange-crowned Warbler * | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Tennessee Warbler * | 13-May | Delta Marsh |
| Nashville Warbler * | 06-May | Delta Marsh |
| Northern Parula | ||
| Yellow Warbler * | 12-May | Delta Marsh |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler * | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Magnolia Warbler * | 16-May | Delta Marsh |
| Cape May Warbler * | 15-May | Delta Marsh |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler (O) | ||
| Blackburnian Warbler * | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Yellow-throated Warbler (A) | ||
| Pine Warbler | ||
| Prairie Warbler (A) | ||
| Black-throated Green Warbler * | 01-Jun | Delta Marsh |
| Western Palm Warbler * | 03-May | Delta Marsh |
| Bay-breasted Warbler * | 24-May | Delta Marsh |
| Blackpoll Warbler * | 14-May | Delta Marsh |
| Cerulean Warbler (A) | ||
| Black-and-white Warbler * | 01-May | Delta Marsh |
| American Redstart * | 14-May | Delta Marsh |
| Prothonotary Warbler (A) | ||
| Worm-eating warbler (A) | ||
| Ovenbird * | 13-May | Delta Marsh |
| Northen Waterthrush * | 29-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Kentucky Warbler (A) | ||
| Connecticut Warbler | 30-Jun | Riding Mountain |
| Mourning Warbler * | 21-May | Delta Marsh |
| Common Yellowthroat * | 16-May | Delta Marsh |
| Hooded Warbler (A) | ||
| Wilson’s Warbler * | 12-May | Delta Marsh |
| Canada Warbler * | 22-May | Delta Marsh |
| Yellow-breasted Chat (A) | ||
| Summer Tanager (A) | ||
| Scarlet Tanager (O) | ||
| Western Tanager (A) | ||
| Northern Cardinal (O) * | 12-Jul | Delta Marsh |
| Black-headed Grosbeak (O) | ||
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak * | 13-May | Delta Marsh |
| Lazuli Bunting (O) | ||
| Indigo Bunting | 29-Jun | Riding Mountain |
| Dickcissel (O) | ||
| Green-tailed Towhee (A) | ||
| Spotted Towhee (O) | ||
| Eastern Towhee (O) | 15-May | Delta Marsh |
| American Tree Sparrow | 01-May | Delta Marsh |
| Clay-coloured Sparrow * | 25-Apr | Woodside |
| Chipping Sparrow * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Brewers Sparrow (A) | ||
| Field Sparrow (O) | ||
| Lark Sparrow | 14-May | Delta Marsh |
| Lark Bunting | 03-Jul | Coulter |
| Vesper Sparrow | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Savannah Sparrow * | 05-May | Delta Marsh |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | 24-Jun | Poverty Plains |
| Baird’s Sparrow | 04-Jul | Broomhill WMA |
| Le Conte’s Sparrow | 05-Jul | Whitewater |
| Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow | 05-Jul | Whitewater |
| Harris’s Sparrow * | 04-May | Delta Marsh |
| White-throated Sparrow * | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| White-crowned Sparrow * | 05-May | Delta Marsh |
| Fox Sparrow | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Song Sparrow * | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Lincoln’s Sparrow * | 05-May | Delta Marsh |
| Swamp Sparrow * | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow (A) | ||
| Slate-coloured Junco * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| McCown’s Longspur (A) | 05-Jun | Whitewater |
| Lapland Longspur | 05-May | Delta Marsh |
| Smith’s Longspur | 16-Jun | Churchill |
| Chestnut-collared Longspur | 24-Jun | Poverty Plains |
| Snow Bunting | 25-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Eastern Meadowlark (O) | ||
| Western Meadowlark | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Bobolink | 16-May | Oak Hammock |
| Brown-headed Cowbird * | 04-May | Delta Marsh |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird * | 28-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| Red-winged Blackbird * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Brewer’s Blackbird | 14-May | Delta Marsh |
| Rusty Blackbird * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Common Grackle * | 24-Apr | Woodside |
| Baltimore Oriole * | 12-May | Delta Marsh |
| Orchard Oriole * | 31-May | Delta Marsh |
| Evening Grosbeak | 27-Jun | Duck Mountain |
| Pine Grosbeak | 16-Jun | Churchill |
| Brambling (A) | ||
| Grey-crowned Rosy-Finch (O) | ||
| Purple Finch * | 26-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| House Finch | ||
| Red Crossbill | ||
| White-winged Crossbill | ||
| Common Redpoll | 02-May | Delta Marsh |
| Hoary Redpoll | 17-Jun | Churchill |
| Pine Siskin * | 28-Apr | Delta Marsh |
| American Goldfinch * | 05-May | Delta Marsh |
| House Sparrow | 25-Apr | Woodside |
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow |
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