Common Birds in Northwest Territories
Our list for Northwest Territories has 75 common birds recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 56 summer visitors, 7 winter visitors and 8 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Northwest Territories in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 75, most common first
Common RavenCorvus coraxWinter visitorCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
Common RedpollAcanthis flammeaWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusSummer visitorCommon70–102 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisPassage migrantCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–May
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchosSummer visitorCommon41–53 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
House SparrowPasser domesticusWinter visitorCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusWinter visitorCommon18–26 cmRegularly Aug–May
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisSummer visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
MallardAnas platyrhynchosSummer visitorCommon50–65 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
American RobinTurdus migratoriusSummer visitorCommon20–28 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulusWinter visitorCommon19–23 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusSummer visitorCommon53–65 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Canada GooseBranta canadensisSummer visitorCommon76–110 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolniiSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrysSummer visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly May–Oct
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaSummer visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Northern Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Eurasian TealAnas creccaSummer visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrinaSummer visitorCommon10–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesSummer visitorCommon23–27 cmRegularly May–Aug
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaSummer visitorCommon28–38 cmRegularly May–Aug
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made