Birds to See in Northwest Territories in December
10 bird species on our list for Northwest Territories are recorded regularly in December
Of these, the most often recorded are Common Raven, Common Redpoll, House Sparrow, Hairy Woodpecker and Bohemian Waxwing. New this month: Ruffed Grouse.
On the move in December
GBIF · DecFrom Northwest Territories’s bird records, 2019–2024: arriving birds are regular this month but not last; leaving birds are regular this month but not next.
Other months
All 10 birds in December
10 birds
Common RavenCorvus coraxWinter visitorCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year · 22.80% in Dec
Common RedpollAcanthis flammeaWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Jun–Apr · 10.57% in Dec
House SparrowPasser domesticusWinter visitorCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year · 4.75% in Dec
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusWinter visitorCommon18–26 cmRegularly Aug–May · 4.04% in Dec
Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulusWinter visitorCommon19–23 cmRegularly Aug–Apr · 1.66% in Dec
Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellusWinter visitorCommon41–50 cmRegularly Aug–Jun · 1.19% in Dec
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescensResidentCommon14–18 cmRegularly Sep–Apr · 1.07% in Dec
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisPassage migrantCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–May · 1.07% in Dec
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year · 0.71% in Dec
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusSummer visitorCommon70–102 cmRegularly Mar–Dec · 0.59% in Dec
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: 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