Ornithology from the North

I have decided to keep a tally of 'new' birds encountered here in the northland of our pride filled country.






The evolutionary traits of birds are some of the most exuberant and pronounced - obviously pronounced, that is. There are, of course, many more spectacular delights in the carbon-based world (well, speaking as a geologist there are many geological ones too...carbon or non-carbon based) that far outweigh that of the birds in a much less displaying fashion, but for now we will shy away from the pages of these other entities who have evolved astounding traits or techniques such as sea squirts, "newts", hermit crabs, butterflies and all their evolutionarily bountiful kin, and focus on the birds.

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Grey Jay (Perisoreus canadensis)
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)
Barrows Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)
Stellar's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)
White Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
Wilson's Warbler (wilsonia pusilla)
Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia)
Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)
American Coot (Fulica americana)
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus)
Yellow-Rumped "Audubon" Warbler (Dendroica coronata)
Dark Eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana)
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris)
Townsend's Warbler (Dendroica townsendi)
Pine siskin (Carduelis pinus)
...the list continues...