Canada · Nova Scotia
Bon Portage Island
292 species and 76,705 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September–October, with up to 213 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Common EiderSomateria mollissima
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
Northern GannetMorus bassanus
Common LoonGavia immer
Northern RavenCorvus corax
Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
Black GuillemotCepphus grylle
American PipitAnthus rubescens
Black ScoterMelanitta americana
Myrtle WarblerSetophaga coronata
White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis77 species seen regularly here in November · showing the 14 most recorded. All 292 species recorded here ↓
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Cape Sable Island – Daniel's Head13 km254 species
- Seal Island22 km326 species
All 292 species recorded here
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Common Eider Somateria mollissima
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Boreal Chickadee Poecile hudsonicus
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Razorbill Alca torda
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Cory's Shearwater Calonectris borealis
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- American Goshawk Astur atricapillus
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Wilson's Storm Petrel Oceanites oceanicus
- Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- American Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri
- Long-eared Owl Asio otus
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Great Skua Stercorarius skua
- Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya
- Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Little Auk Alle alle
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Common Murre Uria aalge
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Sora Porzana carolina
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator
- California Gull Larus californicus
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- King Eider Somateria spectabilis
- Chestnut-collared Longspur Calcarius ornatus
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
- Hammond's Flycatcher Empidonax hammondii
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi
- Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Western Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli
- Sargasso Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Bon Portage Island?
September–October. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 213 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Bon Portage Island?
292 species, from 76,705 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Bon Portage Island in November?
The most recorded in November: Song Sparrow, American Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Common Eider and American Crow.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.