Canada · Ontario
Toronto – Colonel Samuel Smith Park
290 species and 662,034 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: May, with up to 232 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
BuffleheadBucephala albeola
Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
GadwallMareca strepera
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Mute SwanCygnus olor
American RobinTurdus migratorius
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
American WigeonMareca americanaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Toronto – Humber Bay Park5 km229 species
- Toronto – Sunnyside Beach6 km251 species
- Toronto – High Park7 km262 species
- Toronto – Toronto Islands11 km288 species
- Mississauga – Rattray Marsh CA11 km270 species
- Mississauga – The Riverwood Conservancy13 km199 species
All 290 species recorded here
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- American Black Duck Anas rubripes
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Eastern Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus
- American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Brown Creeper Certhia americana
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
- Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Red Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus
- King Eider Somateria spectabilis
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
- Redpoll Acanthis flammea
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis
- Long-eared Owl Asio otus
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Northern Raven Corvus corax
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Pine Siskin Spinus pinus
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- Alder Flycatcher Empidonax alnorum
- Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Virginia Rail Rallus limicola
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Connecticut Warbler Oporornis agilis
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus
- Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
- Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
- Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Kentucky Warbler Geothlypis formosa
- Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi
- Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus
- Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
- American Goshawk Astur atricapillus
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Boreal Chickadee Poecile hudsonicus
- Common Eider Somateria mollissima
- Harris's Sparrow Zonotrichia querula
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorum
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Double-barred Finch Stizoptera bichenovii
- Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus
- Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
- Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Toronto – Colonel Samuel Smith Park?
May. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 232 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Toronto – Colonel Samuel Smith Park?
290 species, from 662,034 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Toronto – Colonel Samuel Smith Park in November?
The most recorded in November: Mallard, Ring-billed Gull, Bufflehead, Red-necked Grebe and Canada Goose.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.