"Status of bird speices listed in the Migratory Birds Convention Act in relation to population goals, Canada, 2022",,, ,,, Ecological group,Status in relation to population goal,Species,Species count Waterfowl,Above goal range,"Ross's goose,[A] snow goose [A]",2 Waterfowl,Within goal range,"Barrow's goldeneye,[A] blue-winged teal,[A] brant,[A] bufflehead,[A] cackling goose,[A] Canada goose,[A] canvasback,[A] cinnamon teal,[A] common eider,[A] common goldeneye,[A] common merganser,[A] gadwall,[A] greater scaup,[A] greater white-fronted goose,[A] green-winged teal,[A] harlequin duck,[A] hooded merganser,[A] mallard,[A] northern shoveler,[A] red-breasted merganser,[A] redhead,[A] ring-necked duck,[A] ruddy duck,[A] surf scoter,[A] trumpeter swan,[A] tundra swan,[A] wood duck [A]",27 Waterfowl,Below goal range,"American black duck,[A] American wigeon,[A] black scoter,[A] king eider,[A] lesser scaup, long-tailed duck,[A] northern pintail,[A] white-winged scoter [A]",8 Wetland birds,Within goal range,"Alder flycatcher,[A] American avocet,[A] Barrow's goldeneye,[A] blue-winged teal,[A] Canada goose,[A] canvasback,[A] Caspian tern,[A] cinnamon teal,[A] common goldeneye,[A] common loon,[A] common merganser,[A] common yellowthroat, eared grebe,[A] gadwall,[A] great blue heron, green-winged teal,[A] hooded merganser,[A] horned grebe,[A] least bittern, mallard,[A] marsh wren, Nelson's sparrow, northern shoveler,[A] pied-billed grebe, redhead,[A] red-necked grebe,[A] ring-billed gull, ring-necked duck,[A] ruddy duck,[A] sandhill crane, sedge wren, sora, swamp sparrow, trumpeter swan,[A] Virginia rail, western grebe,[A] willet,[A] Wilson's phalarope,[A] wood duck [A]",39 Wetland birds,Below goal range,"American Bittern, American Black Duck,[A] American Coot, American Wigeon,[A] Black Tern,[A] Black-crowned Night Heron, California Gull,[A] Common Gallinule, Common Tern,[A] Forster's Tern,[A] Franklin's Gull,[A] Green Heron, Northern Pintail,[A] Spotted Sandpiper,[A] Willow Flycatcher [A]",15 Wetland birds,Data deficient ,"Clark's grebe,[A] king rail, snowy egret, western cattle egret ",4 Marine birds,Within goal range,"Ancient murrelet, Atlantic puffin, Barrow's goldeneye,[A] black guillemot, brant,[A] bufflehead,[A] Caspian tern,[A] common eider,[A] common goldeneye,[A] common loon,[A] common murre, eared grebe,[A] greater scaup,[A] harlequin duck,[A] Heermann's gull, horned grebe,[A] Iceland gull,[A] lesser black-backed gull, Northern gannet, Pacific loon,[A] razorbill, red-breasted merganser,[A] red-necked grebe,[A] red-throated loon,[A] rhinoceros auklet, surf scoter,[A] thick-billed murre,[A] tufted puffin, western grebe [A]",29 Marine birds,Below goal range,"Black scoter,[A] black tern,[A] black-legged kittiwake, California gull,[A] Cassin's auklet, common tern,[A] Forster's tern,[A] glaucous gull,[A] glaucous-winged gull, great black-backed gull, herring gull, ivory gull,[A] king eider,[A] Leach's storm-petrel, long-tailed duck,[A] marbled murrelet,[A] northern fulmar, pigeon guillemot, roseate tern,[A] western gull, white-winged scoter,[A] yellow-billed loon [A]",22 Marine birds,Data deficient ,"Arctic tern,[A] Bermuda petrel, black-footed albatross, black-headed gull, Buller's shearwater, Clark's grebe,[A] Cory's shearwater, dovekie,[A] flesh-footed shearwater, fork-tailed storm-petrel, great shearwater, great skua, horned puffin, laughing gull, Laysan albatross, long-tailed jaeger,[A] Manx shearwater, parasitic jaeger,[A] pink-footed shearwater, pomarine jaeger,[A] red phalarope,[A] red-necked phalarope,[A] Ross's gull,[A] Sabine's gull,[A] short-tailed albatross, short-tailed shearwater, sooty shearwater, south polar skua, Wilson's storm-petrel",29 Forest birds,Within goal range,"Acadian flycatcher,[A] American redstart,[A] bay-breasted warbler,[A] black-and-white warbler,[A] black-backed woodpecker, blackburnian warbler,[A] black-capped chickadee, black-headed grosbeak, black-throated blue warbler,[A] black-throated green warbler,[A] blue-headed vireo, brown creeper, Cape May warbler,[A] Cassin's vireo, chestnut-sided warbler,[A] dark-eyed junco, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, Hammond's flycatcher,[A] hooded warbler,[A] Hutton's vireo, Lewis's woodpecker, Louisiana waterthrush,[A] magnolia warbler,[A] mountain chickadee, northern parula,[A] northern waterthrush,[A] orange-crowned warbler, ovenbird,[A] Philadelphia vireo,[A] pileated woodpecker, pine grosbeak, pine warbler, pygmy nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, red-breasted sapsucker, red-eyed vireo,[A] red-headed woodpecker, red-naped sapsucker, ruby-crowned kinglet, ruby-throated hummingbird,[A] Swainson's thrush,[A] Tennessee warbler,[A] Townsend's solitaire, Townsend's warbler, varied thrush, veery,[A] warbling vireo,[A] western tanager, white-breasted nuthatch, white-winged crossbill, winter wren, yellow-bellied flycatcher,[A] yellow-bellied sapsucker, yellow-rumped warbler, yellow-throated vireo [A]",56 Forest birds,Below goal range,"American three-toed woodpecker, band-tailed pigeon, blackpoll warbler, black-throated gray warbler, Bohemian waxwing, boreal chickadee, Canada warbler,[A] Cassin's finch, cerulean warbler,[A] chestnut-backed chickadee, Connecticut warbler,[A] dusky flycatcher,[A] eastern whip-poor-will,[A] eastern wood-pewee,[A] evening grosbeak, golden-crowned kinglet, gray-cheeked thrush,[A] great crested flycatcher,[A] hermit thrush, least flycatcher,[A] MacGillivray's warbler, marbled murrelet,[A] mourning warbler,[A] Nashville warbler,[A] olive-sided flycatcher,[A] Pacific wren, pine siskin, prothonotary warbler,[A] purple finch, red crossbill, rose-breasted grosbeak,[A] scarlet tanager,[A] Vaux's swift,[A] western wood-pewee,[A] white-throated sparrow, wood thrush[A]",36 Forest birds,Data deficient ,"Bicknell's thrush,[A] chuck-will's-widow,[A] Kirtland's warbler,[A] Williamson's sapsucker",4 Arctic birds,Above goal range,"Ross's goose,[A] snow goose [A]",2 Arctic birds,Within goal range,"Baird's sandpiper,[A] brant,[A] cackling goose,[A] common eider,[A] common redpoll,[A] greater white-fronted goose,[A] Hoary redpoll, Iceland gull,[A] Lapland longspur, least sandpiper,[A] Pacific loon,[A] red-throated loon,[A] Smith's longspur, thick-billed murre,[A] tundra swan,[A] western sandpiper [A]",16 Arctic birds,Below goal range,"American golden-plover,[A] black-bellied plover,[A] buff-breasted sandpiper,[A] dunlin,[A] glaucous gull,[A] Harris's sparrow,[A] Hudsonian godwit,[A] ivory gull,[A] king eider,[A] long-billed dowitcher,[A] long-tailed duck,[A] pectoral sandpiper,[A] purple sandpiper,[A] rock sandpiper,[A] ruddy turnstone,[A] sanderling,[A] semipalmated plover,[A] semipalmated sandpiper,[A] snow bunting, stilt sandpiper,[A] surfbird,[A] whimbrel,[A] white-rumped sandpiper,[A] yellow-billed loon [A]",24 Arctic birds,Data deficient ,"Arctic tern,[A] bluethroat,[A] common ringed plover,[A] dovekie,[A] eastern yellow wagtail,[A] Eskimo curlew,[A] gray-headed chickadee, long-tailed jaeger,[A] northern wheatear,[A] Pacific golden-plover,[A] parasitic jaeger,[A] pomarine jaeger,[A] red knot,[A] red phalarope,[A] red-necked phalarope,[A] Ross's gull, [A] Sabine's gull,[A] sharp-tailed sandpiper [A]",18 Long-Distance Migrants,Within goal range,"Acadian flycatcher,[A] alder flycatcher,[A] American redstart,[A] Baird's sandpiper,[A] bay-breasted warbler,[A] black-and-white warbler,[A] blackburnian warbler,[A] black-chinned hummingbird, black-throated blue warbler,[A] black-throated green warbler,[A] blue-winged teal,[A] Bullock's oriole, calliope hummingbird, Cape May warbler,[A] chestnut-sided warbler,[A] golden-winged warbler, hooded warbler,[A] indigo bunting, least sandpiper,[A] Louisiana waterthrush,[A] magnolia warbler,[A] northern parula,[A] northern waterthrush,[A] orchard oriole, ovenbird,[A] Philadelphia vireo,[A] purple martin,[A] red-eyed vireo,[A] ruby-throated hummingbird,[A] solitary sandpiper,[A] Swainson's thrush,[A] Tennessee warbler,[A] upland sandpiper,[A] veery,[A] violet-green swallow,[A] warbling vireo,[A] western kingbird,[A] Wilson's phalarope,[A] yellow-bellied flycatcher,[A] yellow-billed cuckoo, yellow-breasted chat, yellow-throated vireo [A]",42 Long-Distance Migrants,Below goal range,"American golden-plover, [A] Baltimore oriole, bank swallow, [A] barn swallow,[A] black swift,[A] black tern,[A] black-billed cuckoo, blackpoll warbler,[A] bobolink,[A] buff-breasted sandpiper, Canada warbler,[A] cerulean warbler,[A] chimney swift,[A] cliff swallow,[A] common nighthawk,[A] common tern,[A] Connecticut warbler,[A] eastern kingbird,[A] eastern wood-pewee,[A] Franklin's gull,[A] gray-cheeked thrush,[A] great crested flycatcher,[A] Hudsonian godwit,[A] least flycatcher,[A] lesser yellowlegs,[A] mourning warbler,[A] Nashville warbler,[A] olive-sided flycatcher,[A] pectoral sandpiper,[A] prothonotary warbler,[A] roseate tern,[A] rose-breasted grosbeak,[A] rufous hummingbird, sanderling,[A] scarlet tanager,[A] semipalmated sandpiper,[A] spotted sandpiper,[A] stilt sandpiper,[A] Vaux's swift,[A] wandering tattler,[A] western wood-pewee,[A] whimbrel,[A] white-rumped sandpiper,[A] willow flycatcher,[A] wood thrush,[A] yellow warbler",46 Long-Distance Migrants,Data deficient ,"Arctic tern,[A] Bicknell's thrush,[A] bluethroat,[A] chuck-will's-widow,[A] common ringed plover,[A] eastern yellow wagtail,[A] Eskimo curlew,[A] Kirtland's warbler,[A] long-tailed jaeger,[A] northern wheatear,[A] Pacific golden-plover,[A] parasitic jaeger,[A] pomarine jaeger,[A] red phalarope,[A] red-necked phalarope,[A] Sabine's gull[A]",16 Shorebirds,Within goal range,"American avocet,[A] Baird's sandpiper,[A] black oystercatcher, black turnstone, greater yellowlegs, least sandpiper,[A] solitary sandpiper,[A] upland sandpiper,[A] western sandpiper,[A] willet,[A] Wilson's phalarope,[A] Wilson's snipe",12 Shorebirds,Below goal range,"American golden-plover,[A] American woodcock, black-bellied plover,[A] buff-breasted sandpiper,[A] dunlin,[A] Hudsonian godwit,[A] killdeer, lesser yellowlegs,[A] long-billed curlew,[A] long-billed dowitcher,[A] marbled godwit,[A] pectoral sandpiper,[A] piping plover, purple sandpiper,[A] rock sandpiper,[A] ruddy turnstone,[A] sanderling,[A] semipalmated plover,[A] semipalmated sandpiper,[A] short-billed dowitcher, spotted sandpiper,[A] stilt sandpiper,[A] surfbird,[A] wandering tattler,[A] whimbrel,[A] white-rumped sandpiper [A]",26 Shorebirds,Data deficient ,"American oystercatcher, common ringed plover,[A] Eskimo curlew,[A] mountain plover,[A] Pacific golden-plover,[A] red knot,[A] red phalarope,[A] red-necked phalarope [A]",8 Aerial insectivores,Within goal range,"Acadian flycatcher,[A] alder flycatcher,[A] Hammond's flycatcher,[A] purple martin,[A] Say's phoebe, violet-green swallow,[A] western kingbird,[A] yellow-bellied flycatcher [A]",8 Aerial insectivores,Below goal range,"Bank swallow,[A] barn swallow,[A] black swift,[A] chimney swift,[A] cliff swallow,[A] common nighthawk,[A] dusky flycatcher,[A] eastern kingbird,[A] eastern phoebe, eastern whip-poor-will,[A] eastern wood-pewee,[A] great crested flycatcher,[A] least flycatcher,[A] northern rough-winged swallow, olive-sided flycatcher,[A] tree swallow, Vaux's swift,[A] western wood-pewee,[A] white-throated swift, willow flycatcher [A]",20 Aerial insectivores,Data deficient ,"Chuck-will's-widow,[A] common poorwill",2 Grassland birds,Within goal range,"Brewer's sparrow, lark sparrow, upland sandpiper,[A] western kingbird,[A] willet [A]",5 Grassland birds,Below goal range,"Baird's sparrow, bobolink,[A] chestnut-collared longspur, eastern meadowlark, grasshopper sparrow, Henslow's sparrow, horned lark, lark bunting, LeConte's sparrow, long-billed curlew,[A] marbled godwit,[A] Savannah sparrow, Sprague's pipit, thick-billed longspur, vesper sparrow, western meadowlark",16 Grassland birds,Data deficient ,Mountain plover [A],1 All Migratory Bird Convention Act species,Above goal range,See above groups,2 All Migratory Bird Convention Act species,Within goal range,See above groups,177 All Migratory Bird Convention Act species,Below goal range,See above groups,149 All Migratory Bird Convention Act species,Data deficient ,See above groups,51 ,,, "Note: [A] Indicates a species that is listed in more than 1 species group. The grouping of bird species is the same as in the State of Canada's Birds (https://naturecounts.ca/nc/socb-epoc/report/2024/en/)but includes only birds listed in the Migratory Birds Convention Act. Fifty-one (51) species have insufficient data to be assessed. Of the 328 species with adequate monitoring data, 164 species are included in more than one category based on their feeding and habitat requirements but are only included once in the total number of birds assessed. For example, species grouped in the feeding behaviour category “aerial insectivores” may also be included in the habitat grouping “forest birds”. Some shorebird species data are only up to 2019.",,, "Source: Birds Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada (2024). The State of Canada's Birds (https://naturecounts.ca/nc/socb-epoc/main.jsp)",,, Available on the Environmental indicators website (www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators).,,,