The species on our (suburban Montreal) garden list are as follows …. the birding related posts can be accessed via the “Birds & Birding” category link in the column to the left of this page
85 SPECIES SEEN
HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS
- Great Blue Heron
NEW WORLD VULTURES
- Turkey Vulture
HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES
- Northern Harrier
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Northern Goshawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Rough-legged Hawk
FALCONS AND CARACARAS
- American Kestrel
GULLS
- Ring-billed Gull
PIGEONS AND DOVES
- Rock Dove
- Mourning Dove
OWLS
- Great Horned Owl (sheltering from a storm one very wet and windy day)
- Snowy Owl (a rapid fly over)
- Great Gray Owl (during the GGOW invasion of winter 04-05)
NIGHTJARS
- Common Nighthawk
HUMMINGBIRDS
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
WOODPECKERS
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Three-toed Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
- Least Flycatcher
- Eastern Phoebe
- Great Crested Flycatcher
KINGLETS
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
WAXWINGS
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Cedar Waxwing
WRENS
- Carolina Wren
- Winter Wren
MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS
- Brown Thrasher
THRUSHES
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Hermit Thrush
- Wood Thrush
- American Robin
CHICKADEES AND TITS
- Black-capped Chickadee
NUTHATCHES
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- White-breasted Nuthatch
CREEPERS
- Brown Creeper
CROWS AND JAYS
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
STARLINGS
- European Starling
VIREOS AND ALLIES
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo
WOOD WARBLERS
- Tennessee Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Parula
- Yellow Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Magnolia Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Black-and-white Warbler
- American Redstart
- Mourning Warbler
- Common Yellowthroat
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Cape May Warbler
SPARROWS, TOWHEES, JUNCOS
- American Tree Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
SALTATORS, CARDINALS AND ALLIES
- Northern Cardinal
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, GRACKLES, ETC.
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Baltimore Oriole
FINCHES, SISKINS, CROSSBILLS
- Purple Finch
- House Finch
- Common Redpoll
- Hoary Redpoll
- Pine Siskin
- American Goldfinch
OLD WORLD SPARROWS
- House Sparrow
