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A total of 252 species have been recorded in the Ojibway Prairie Complex (within 5 km [3 mi] of the Ojibway Nature Centre). Names marked with an N are breeding species. Names marked with an * are rarely recorded. Changes made to this list since 1998 are shown in blue. Please share your sighting with the nature centre. Our share name for eBird submissions is Ojibway Prairie Data

Ontario's first Greater Prairie Chicken was collected at Ojibway but this species has not been recorded since 1897. "Audubon's Warbler" was first recorded in 2001 but is currently considered a sub-species of Yellow-rumped Warbler. Common names and arrangement follow the American Ornithological Union list, up to the 41st Supplement of July 1997.

 

  1. Snow Goose
  2. Canada Goose N
  3. Mute Swan
  4. Tundra Swan
  5. Wood Duck N
  6. Gadwall
  7. American Wigeon
  8. American Black Duck
  9. Mallard N
  10. Blue-winged Teal N
  11. Northern Shoveler
  12. Northern Pintail
  13. Green-winged Teal
  14. Canvasback
  15. Redhead
  16. Ring-necked Duck
  17. Greater Scaup
  18. Lesser Scaup
  19. Surf Scoter *
  20. White-winged Scoter
  21. Black Scoter *
  22. Long-tailed Duck
  23. Bufflehead
  24. Common Goldeneye
  25. Hooded Merganser
  26. Common Merganser
  27. Red-breasted Merganser
  28. Ruddy Duck
  29. Ring-necked Pheasant N
  30. Greater Prairie Chicken *
  31. Wild Turkey N
  32. Northern Bobwhite N*
  33. Common Loon
  34. Pied-billed Grebe
  35. Horned Grebe
  36. Red-necked Grebe *
  37. Double-crested Cormorant
  38. American Bittern
  39. Great Blue Heron
  40. Great Egret
  41. Cattle Egret
  42. Green Heron N
  43. Black-crowned Night-Heron
  44. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron *
  45. Glossy Ibis *
  46. Turkey Vulture
  47. Osprey
  48. Bald Eagle N
  49. Northern Harrier
  50. Sharp-shinned Hawk
  51. Cooper's Hawk N
  52. Northern Goshawk
  53. Red-shouldered Hawk
  54. Broad-winged Hawk N
  55. Red-tailed Hawk N
  56. Rough-legged Hawk
  57. Golden Eagle *
  58. American Kestrel N
  59. Merlin
  60. Peregrine Falcon N
  61. Virginia Rail N
  62. Sora
  63. Common Moorhen N
  64. American Coot
  65. Sandhill Crane *
  66. Black-bellied Plover
  67. American Golden Plover
  68. Semipalmated Plover
  69. Killdeer N
  70. Spotted Sandpiper N
  71. Solitary Sandpiper
  72. Greater Yellowlegs
  73. Lesser Yellowlegs
  74. Upland Sandpiper
  75. Whimbrel *
  76. Ruddy Turnstone
  77. Semipalmated Sandpiper
  78. Least Sandpiper
  79. White-rumped Sandpiper
  80. Pectoral Sandpiper
  81. Dunlin
  82. Short-billed Dowitcher
  83. Wilson's Snipe
  84. American Woodcock N
  85. Red-necked Phalarope
  86. Bonaparte's Gull
  87. Ring-billed Gull N
  88. Herring Gull
  89. Iceland Gull *
  90. Glaucous Gull
  91. Great Black-backed Gull
  92. Caspian Tern
  93. Black Tern
  94. Common Tern
  95. Forster's Tern
  96. Rock Pigeon N
  97. Mourning Dove N
  98. Passenger Pigeon extinct
  99. Yellow-billed Cuckoo N
  100. Black-billed Cuckoo N
  101. Eastern Screech-Owl N
  102. Great Horned Owl N
  103. Snowy Owl
  104. Long-eared Owl
  105. Northern Saw-whet Owl
  106. Common Nighthawk N
  107. Chuck-will's-widow *
  108. Whip-poor-will
  109. Chimney Swift N
  110. Ruby-throated Hummingbird N
  111. Belted Kingfisher N
  112. Lewis's Woodpecker *
  113. Red-headed Woodpecker N
  114. Red-bellied Woodpecker N
  115. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  116. Downy Woodpecker N
  117. Hairy Woodpecker N
  118. Northern Flicker N
  119. Olive-sided Flycatcher
  120. Eastern Wood-Pewee N
  121. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
  122. Acadian Flycatcher N*
  123. Alder Flycatcher N
  124. Willow Flycatcher N
  125. Least Flycatcher
  126. Eastern Phoebe N
  127. Great Crested Flycatcher N
  1. Eastern Kingbird N
  2. Western Kingbird *
  3. Northern Shrike
  4. White-eyed Vireo N
  5. Yellow-throated Vireo N
  6. Blue-headed Vireo
  7. Warbling Vireo N
  8. Philadelphia Vireo
  9. Red-eyed Vireo N
  10. Blue Jay N
  11. American Crow N
  12. Common Raven *
  13. Horned Lark N
  14. Purple Martin N
  15. Tree Swallow N
  16. Northern Rough-winged Swallow N
  17. Bank Swallow N
  18. Cliff Swallow N
  19. Barn Swallow N
  20. Black-capped Chickadee N
  21. Tufted Titmouse N
  22. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  23. White-breasted Nuthatch N
  24. Brown Creeper
  25. Carolina Wren N
  26. House Wren N
  27. Winter Wren
  28. Sedge Wren N
  29. Marsh Wren
  30. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  31. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  32. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher N
  33. Eastern Bluebird N
  34. Veery
  35. Gray-cheeked Thrush
  36. Swainson's Thrush
  37. Hermit Thrush
  38. Wood Thrush N
  39. American Robin N
  40. Gray Catbird N
  41. Northern Mockingbird
  42. Brown Thrasher N
  43. European Starling N
  44. American Pipit
  45. Bohemian Waxwing *
  46. Cedar Waxwing N
  47. Blue-winged Warbler N
  48. Golden-winged Warbler
  49. Tennessee Warbler
  50. Orange-crowned Warbler
  51. Nashville Warbler
  52. Northern Parula Warbler
  53. Yellow Warbler N
  54. Chestnut-sided Warbler N
  55. Magnolia Warbler
  56. Cape May Warbler
  57. Black-throated Blue Warbler
  58. Yellow-rumped Warbler
  59. Black-throated Green Warbler
  60. Blackburnian Warbler
  61. Pine Warbler
  62. Prairie Warbler
  63. Palm Warbler
  64. Bay-breasted Warbler
  65. Blackpoll Warbler
  66. Cerulean Warbler
  67. Black-and-White Warbler
  68. American Redstart
  69. Prothonotary Warbler *
  70. Worm-eating Warbler *
  71. Ovenbird N
  72. Northern Waterthrush
  73. Louisiana Waterthrush
  74. Kentucky Warbler *
  75. Connecticut Warbler *
  76. Mourning Warbler N
  77. Common Yellowthroat N
  78. Hooded Warbler
  79. Wilson's Warbler
  80. Canada Warbler
  81. Yellow-breasted Chat N
  82. Summer Tanager *
  83. Western Tanager *
  84. Scarlet Tanager N
  85. Eastern Towhee N
  86. American Tree Sparrow
  87. Chipping Sparrow N
  88. Clay-colored Sparrow *
  89. Field Sparrow N
  90. Vesper Sparrow N
  91. Savannah Sparrow N
  92. Fox Sparrow
  93. Song Sparrow N
  94. Lincoln's Sparrow
  95. Swamp Sparrow N
  96. White-throated Sparrow
  97. White-crowned Sparrow
  98. Dark-eyed Junco
  99. Lapland Longspur
  100. Snow Bunting
  101. Northern Cardinal N
  102. Rose-breasted Grosbeak N
  103. Blue Grosbeak *
  104. Indigo Bunting N
  105. Dickcissel *
  106. Bobolink N
  107. Red-winged Blackbird N
  108. Eastern Meadowlark N
  109. Western Meadowlark *
  110. Yellow-headed Blackbird *
  111. Rusty Blackbird
  112. Brewer's Blackbird *
  113. Common Grackle N
  114. Brown-headed Cowbird N
  115. Orchard Oriole N
  116. Baltimore Oriole N
  117. Purple Finch
  118. House Finch N
  119. Red Crossbill *
  120. White-winged Crossbill *
  121. Common Redpoll
  122. Pine Siskin
  123. American Goldfinch N
  124. Evening Grosbeak
  125. House Sparrow N

 
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