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The Boreal Forest at Risk: A Progress Report

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APPENDIX A: LIST OF LANDBIRDS IN CANADA'S BOREALFORESTS*

(Turkey Vulture) *Osprey Bald Eagle *Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk *Northern Goshawk (Red-shouldered Hawk) Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk *Rough-legged Hawk *Golden Eagle American Kestrel *Merlin *Gyrfalcon *Peregrine Falcon (Prairie Falcon) *Gray Partridge *Ring-necked Pheasant Ruffed Grouse Spruce Grouse *Willow Ptarmigan *Rock Ptarmigan White-tailed Ptarmigan Blue Grouse Sharp-tailed Grouse *Rock Dove Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo (Yellow-billed Cuckoo) (Western Screech-Owl) (Eastern Screech-Owl) Great Horned Owl *(Snowy Owl) *Northern Hawk Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl (Burrowing Owl) Barred Owl *Great Gray Owl *Long-eared Owl *Short-eared Owl *Boreal Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will (Black Swift) Chimney Swift (Vaux's Swift) Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Calliope Hummingbird) Rufous Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher (Lewis's Woodpecker) (Red-headed Woodpecker) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Red-naped Sapsucker) (Red-breasted Sapsucker) Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker *Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Hammond's Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher (Pacific-slope Flycatcher) (Cordilleran Flycatcher) Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher

(Western Kingbird) Eastern Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike *Northern Shrike Yellow-throated Vireo (Cassin's Vireo) Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Gray Jay (Steller's Jay) Blue Jay (Clark's Nutcracker) Black-billed Magpie American Crow (Northwestern Crow) *Common Raven *Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow *Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow *Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Boreal Chickadee *Gray-headed Chickadee (Chestnut-backed Chickadee) Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper (Rock Wren) House Wren *Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren American Dipper Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet *Northern Wheatear Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Veery *Gray-cheeked Thrush Bicknell's Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Gray Catbird (Northern Mockingbird) Brown Thrasher *European Starling *(Yellow Wagtail) *American Pipit Sprague's Pipit *Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing (Golden-winged Warbler) Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Townsend's Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler (Pine Warbler) Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler (Yellow-breasted Chat) Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager Spotted Towhee (Eastern Towhee) American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow (Field Sparrow) Vesper Sparrow (Lark Sparrow) (Lark Bunting) Savannah Sparrow (Baird's Sparrow) (Grasshopper Sparrow) Le Conte's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco *Lapland Longspur Smith's Longspur (Chestnut-collared Longspur) *Snow Bunting Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Black-headed Grosbeak) (Lazuli Bunting) (Indigo Bunting) Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird (Orchard Oriole) Baltimore Oriole Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch *Pine Grosbeak Purple Finch (House Finch) *Red Crossbill *White-winged Crossbill *Common Redpoll *Hoary Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak *House Sparrow

* An estimated 25% or more of the global population of species in bold are found in Canada's boreal forest. Asterisks indicate species that also breed in Eurasia, species in parentheses are peripheral or accidental in Canada's boreal region.

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