Finding BC Birds: help needed
Posted: Jun 24 6:37 pm
Thank you for taking some time to read this request.
I am a birder from Montreal coming on holiday to BC to visit my cousin and travel.
We will start in North Van, then drive to Port Hardy on Vancouver Island to take a BC ferry up the Inland Passage to Prince Rupert. Then we will drive Highway 16 to Prince George, Highway 97 to Cache Creek, then Highway 1 back to North Van.
Where along that route am I likely to find any of the following?
YB Loon, Clark's Grebe, Fork-tailed or Leach's Storm-Petrels, Trumpeter Swan, Snowy Plover, Long-Billed Curlew, Surfbird, Mew or Thayer's Gulls, Ancient or Cassin's Murrelets, Western or Northern or Spotted Owls, Black Swift, Red-naped or Williamson's Sapsuckers, Hammond's Flycatcher, Pygmy Nuthatch, Wrentit, Hermit Warbler, Black-headed Grosbeak, Henslow's Sparrow, Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, and Cassin's Finch.
I do know the usual habitats of these birds, but I don't know their seasonal distributions in BC. If you know of any 'most likely' spots along my route, that you would care to share, I would be MOST appreciative.
Thanking you in advance...
NotANighthawk.
I am a birder from Montreal coming on holiday to BC to visit my cousin and travel.
We will start in North Van, then drive to Port Hardy on Vancouver Island to take a BC ferry up the Inland Passage to Prince Rupert. Then we will drive Highway 16 to Prince George, Highway 97 to Cache Creek, then Highway 1 back to North Van.
Where along that route am I likely to find any of the following?
YB Loon, Clark's Grebe, Fork-tailed or Leach's Storm-Petrels, Trumpeter Swan, Snowy Plover, Long-Billed Curlew, Surfbird, Mew or Thayer's Gulls, Ancient or Cassin's Murrelets, Western or Northern or Spotted Owls, Black Swift, Red-naped or Williamson's Sapsuckers, Hammond's Flycatcher, Pygmy Nuthatch, Wrentit, Hermit Warbler, Black-headed Grosbeak, Henslow's Sparrow, Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, and Cassin's Finch.
I do know the usual habitats of these birds, but I don't know their seasonal distributions in BC. If you know of any 'most likely' spots along my route, that you would care to share, I would be MOST appreciative.
Thanking you in advance...
NotANighthawk.