Birding

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Throughout the year, Palliser Regional Park is showcase to 84 varieties of birds.  Over two miles of roads and winding trails enclosed by trees of all sizes along with vast shorelines offer you a front seat in the world of bird watching. 

Local Birding Contacts 

Jim and Audry Dykes (306) 692-8621.

- or -

Chaplin Interpretive Centre

Viewing towers, tourist information.

    (800) 720-0060 or (306) 395-2223

 

Listed below are the varieties sighted by avid bird watchers Jim and Audrey Dykes. 

  • American Avocet

  • American Coot

  • American Crow

  • American Goldfinch

  • American Redstart

  • American Robin

  • American White Pelican

  • Baltimore Oriole

  • Bank Swallow

  • Barn Swallow

  • Belted Kingfisher

  • Black-Billed Magpie

  • Black-Capped Chickadee

  • Black-Crowned Night Heron

  • Blackpoll Warbler

  • Blue Winged Teal

  • Brewer's Blackbird

  • Brown Creeper

  • Brown Thrasher

  • Brown-Headed Cowbird

  • Canada Goose

  • Canvasback

  • Cedar Waxwing

  • Chipping Sparrow

  • Clay-Colored Sparrow

  • Cliff Swallow

  • Common Grackle

  • Common Loons

  • Common Nighthawk

  • Common Tern

  • Common Yellowthroat

  • Double-Crested Cormorant

  • Downy Woodpecker

  • Eastern Kingbird

  • European Starling  

  • Franklin's Gull

  • Gadwall

  • Golden Eagle

  • Grasshopper Sparrow

  • Gray Catbird

  • Great Blue Heron

  • Great Horned Owl

 

  • Hairy Woodpecker

  • Horned Grebe

  • House Sparrow

  • House Wren

  • Killdeer  

  • Long-Billed Curlew

  • Marbled Godwit

  • Mountain Bluebird

  • Mourning Dove

  • Northern Mallard

  • Northern Flicker

  • Northern Harrier

  • Northern Mockingbird

  • Northern Pintail

  • Northern Shoveler

  • Pine Siskin

  • Piping Plover

  • Prairie Falcon

  • Purple Martin

  • Red-Breasted Nuthatch

  • Red-Winged Blackbird

  • Redhead

  • Ring-Billed Gull

  • Rose-Breasted Grosbeck

  • Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

  • Sandhill Crane

  • Semipalmated Plover

  • Sharp-Tailed Grouse

  • Snow Goose

  • Snowy Owl

  • Spotted Towhee

  • Swainson's Hawk

  • Tree Swallow

  • Tundra Swan

  • Western Grebe

  • Western Kingbird

  • Western Meadowlark

  • White-Crowned Sparrow

  • Winter Wren

  • Yellow Warbler

  • Yellow-Headed Blackbird

  • Yellow-Rumped Warbler