Bird AlbumCanada · Quebec
Centre d’int. et d’obs. de Cap-de-Bon-Désir
251 species and 83,508 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May–June and September, with up to 167 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Black GuillemotCepphus grylle
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
Common LoonGavia immer
Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
Common EiderSomateria mollissima
Iceland GullLarus glaucoides
Northern RavenCorvus corax
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
Evening GrosbeakHesperiphona vespertina
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Les Escoumins10 km250 species
- Dunes de Tadoussac19 km270 species
- RN de l’Île-aux-Basques-et-des-Razades – Île aux Basques22 km238 species
- Tadoussac23 km246 species
- Parc côtier Kiskotuk – Secteur marais du Gros-Cacouna37 km252 species
- PN du Bic – Belvédère Raoul-Roy45 km200 species
All 251 species recorded here
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Common Eider Somateria mollissima
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Razorbill Alca torda
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Boreal Chickadee Poecile hudsonicus
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Common Murre Uria aalge
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- King Eider Somateria spectabilis
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Canada Jay Perisoreus canadensis
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Black-backed Woodpecker Picoides arcticus
- Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- American Goshawk Astur atricapillus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- American Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides dorsalis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Little Auk Alle alle
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Long-eared Owl Asio otus
- Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus
- Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Spruce Grouse Canachites canadensis
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
- Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Golden Pheasant Chrysolophus pictus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Centre d’int. et d’obs. de Cap-de-Bon-Désir?
May–June and September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 167 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Centre d’int. et d’obs. de Cap-de-Bon-Désir?
251 species, from 83,508 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Centre d’int. et d’obs. de Cap-de-Bon-Désir in November?
The most recorded in November: American Herring Gull, American Black Duck, Great Black-backed Gull, Black Guillemot and Black-capped Chickadee.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.