Wildlife & Birds of Nova Scotia
INDEX OF SPECIES THAT APPEAR IN NOVA SCOTIA
Rare Breeding and Non-Breeding Birds
Categories adapted from Birds of Nova Scotia, R. Tufts, 1986:
DEFINITIONS
- Common - can be seen in numbers, a few to many, on any day at the right time and place
- Uncommon - might be missed on most days but is certain to be seen by a persistent watcher in the right places at some time during the year
- Rare - more than 10 but fewer than 100 records for the province, or somewhat more if very restricted in location
- Winter Residents - birds that arrive, generally from the north, for that season and stay until spring
- Transient - birds that pass through the province in spring and fall
- Visitants - birds that occur here regularly without breeding but spend variable or unknown periods of time in the province
- Least Bittern
- Gadwall
- Redhead
- Ruddy Duck
- Willow Ptarmigan
- Marsh Wren
- Indigo Bunting
- Oldsquaw
- Iceland Gull
- Dovekie
- Common Murre
- Thick-billed Murre
- Snow Bunting
- Common Redpoll
- Red-throated Loon
- Horned Grebe
- Red-necked Grebe
- Northern Gannet
- Brant
- Greater Scaup
- Black Scoter
- Surf Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Bufflehead
- Black-bellied Plover
- Lesser Golden Plover
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Red Knot
- Sanderling
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Purple Sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red Phalarope
- Ring-billed Gull
- Water Pipit
- American Tree Sparrow
- Lapland Longspur
- Northern Fulmar
- Greater Shearwater
- Sooty Shearwater
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Glaucous Gull
- Snowy Owl
- Northern Shrike
- Snow Goose
- Lesser Scaup
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Whimbrel
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Wilson's Phalarope
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Bonaparte's Gull
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Cory's Shearwater
- Manx Shearwater
- Snowy Egret
- Green-backed Heron
- Glossy Ibis
- Laughing Gull
- Common Black-headed Gull