Small Birds Of Vancouver Island. The common Bushtit is 11 cm long and ranges from the southern coast of British Columbia to Guatemala. This tiny drab bird is common in oak scrub chaparral and juniper woodlands as well as in wooded forests suburbs and parks of the Pacific coast.
I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. The Common Loon as found on Canadas 1 coins called Loonies Pacific Loon Yellow-billed Loon and Red-Throated Loon. Vancouver Island is home to many species of birds migrating up and down the Pacific Coast.
Stokes Field Guide to The Birds of North America.
The purpose of this website is to share the many birds that I have been fortunate enough to encounter enjoy and photograph. Of them 227 are rare or accidental and 17 have been introduced to British Columbia or elsewhere in North America. Birders come to see species like brant geese trumpeter swans and bald eagles as well as a vast array of marine birds shore birds and song. As part of a temperate rainforest Vancouver Island is the ideal nesting place for over 440 different species of rare and native birds including swans geese ducks teals quails eagles and more as well as visiting species that enjoy the local climate.