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alberta bird list

2006-06-15 - 7:46 p.m.

copyright 2006 by elaine radford

Here's the Bird List from my Alberta trip. I hate to say it, but while Alberta may be protected from hurricanes by the mountains, we beat the crap out of them for birds. I still managed to find three lifers, including the famous Clark's Nutcracker who was studied by animal intelligence researchers, but we were stiffed by the grouse and the ptarmigan, and it was truly noticeable just how few birds they actually have, other than American Robins.

Random thoughts: I'm pretty sure we heard Hermit Thrush as well as Veery, but a Veery is the one who sat very close and gave us a good long look on the path to the Valley of the Five Lakes. All of the Yellow-Rumped Warblers that I inspected well enough to see were Myrtles, every durn one. And the Ferruginous Hawks were not seen in the park, but rather when driving out of Calgary toward the Canmore area. I saw a light morph being mobbed by an angry corvid which struck the raptor hard several times, and I saw a dark morph fly almost right over the passenger side of the car. Unfortunately, because of the traffic issues in that area, I'm pretty sure that DH missed both of these birds, and also most or all of the roadside Red-Tailed Hawks.

He did get to enjoy the female Merlin primping and preening near the Icefields Parkway, as well as the good-looking pair of Bald Eagles that rule majestically over the Vermillion Lakes in Banff.

  1. Common Loon
  2. Canada Goose
  3. American Wigeon
  4. Mallard
  5. Ring-necked Duck
  6. Bufflehead
  7. Osprey
  8. Bald Eagle
  9. Cooper's Hawk
  10. Red Tailed Hawk
  11. Ferruginous Hawk
  12. Merlin
  13. Rock Dove
  14. Red-naped Sapsucker
  15. Cliff Swallow
  16. Cedar Waxwing
  17. Townsend's Solitaire
  18. Veery
  19. American Robin
  20. Black-capped Chickadee
  21. Mountain Chickadee
  22. Gray Jay
  23. Clark's Nutcracker
  24. Black-Billed Magpie
  25. American Crow
  26. Common Raven
  27. European Starling
  28. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  29. Chipping Sparrow
  30. Dark-eyed Junco
  31. Red-winged Blackbird
  32. Brown-headed Cowbird
  33. House Sparrow

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