Canada · British Columbia
Squamish River Estuary
243 species and 114,473 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: April–May and September, with up to 164 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Glaucous-winged GullLarus glaucescens
BuffleheadBucephala albeola
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
Northern RavenCorvus corax
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
Spotted TowheePipilo maculatus
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
Steller's JayCyanocitta stelleriSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Stanley Park45 km252 species
- Stanley Park – Lost Lagoon46 km203 species
- North Vancouver – Maplewood Flats Conservation Area46 km239 species
- Vancouver – Jericho Park48 km240 species
- ts’uḵw’um (Wilson Creek) Estuary49 km226 species
- Vancouver – Trout Lake51 km182 species
All 243 species recorded here
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Short-billed Gull Larus brachyrhynchus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Pacific Wren Troglodytes pacificus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee Poecile rufescens
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus
- Varied Thrush Ixoreus naevius
- Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephala islandica
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Black-throated Grey Warbler Setophaga nigrescens
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Western Flycatcher Empidonax difficilis
- Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Hammond's Flycatcher Empidonax hammondii
- Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
- Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis
- Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Vaux's Swift Chaetura vauxi
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- American Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- California Gull Larus californicus
- Golden-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia atricapilla
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- MacGillivray's Warbler Geothlypis tolmiei
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- American Black Swift Cypseloides niger
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii
- Townsend's Warbler Setophaga townsendi
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus
- Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- Mountain Pygmy Owl Glaucidium gnoma
- Hutton's Vireo Vireo huttoni
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator
- American Goshawk Astur atricapillus
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
- Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Black Oystercatcher Haematopus bachmani
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- California Scrub Jay Aphelocoma californica
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Brandt's Cormorant Urile penicillatus
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Common Murre Uria aalge
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Lewis's Woodpecker Melanerpes lewis
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Harris's Sparrow Zonotrichia querula
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockiorum
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch Leucosticte tephrocotis
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
- Sora Porzana carolina
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Marbled Murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus
- Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba
- Lazuli Bunting Passerina amoena
- Black Turnstone Arenaria melanocephala
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Wandering Tattler Tringa incana
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Long-eared Owl Asio otus
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Ross's Goose Anser rossii
- Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Canada Jay Perisoreus canadensis
- Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata
- Calliope Hummingbird Selasphorus calliope
- American Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Fork-tailed Storm Petrel Hydrobates furcatus
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Squamish River Estuary?
April–May and September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 164 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Squamish River Estuary?
243 species, from 114,473 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Squamish River Estuary in November?
The most recorded in November: Mallard, Bald Eagle, Great Blue Heron, Glaucous-winged Gull and Bufflehead.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.