OTTAWA WINTER LIST: 2007 - 2008
Count to February 29, 2008:
109 + 2
See complete list below. Please email your sightings of birds not yet reported.
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Many birders try to make the best of our long, COLD winters here in Ottawa by keeping a "Winter List". Birders have arbitrarily set the temporal bounds of "their" winter to include the three months of December, January and February; this despite the thousands of years old convention of reckoning the seasons. A winter list of 90 or more in the Ottawa checklist circle is excellent, but the goal serious listing usually gun for is the 100 species mark.
One serious drawback to winter birding, especially in a place like Ottawa, where winter keeps getting worse through the entire three month period, is that the law of deminishing returns eventually sets in. The first weeks of December are the most critical for building a large winter list. Lingering birds, not yet cold enough or lacking in food supplies, make up a large portion of the variety in a "winter" list. This is the major argument for sticking to the old seasonal "winter", most of those birds have departed by the time winter really begins on the 21st or 22nd of December. By mid-January (if not by mid-December), Ottawa birders can predict their final winter species count fairly accurately. It can make February birding somewhat less interesting (but then, you could work on your February list!).
Despite this, interest in winter listing has grown in leaps and bounds here in Canada. Most provinces now keep winter lists. See Blake Maybank's Winter Listing Web Pages for links to these and several reional lists. These lists help generate interest in an otherwise quiet season, birdwise. And they provide listers with a list of possibilities for their next outing. These may be either birds seen that they need for their winter list or birds that should have been seen but haven't yet been reported. Thus the Birding Ottawa Ottawa Winter List page. It will require your input. If you see any species not listed as seen this winter, please let me know so that they can be included. If the species is not easily found in the area, the location of the sighting or sightings may be given. If the location has its own page, you can access more details and directions by clicking its link.
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Check the Birding Ottawa Current Ottawa Winter List.
Check the Birding Ottawa Past Years' Ottawa Winter Lists.
Birding Ottawa's Cumulative Ottawa Winter Lists
Check the last Birding Ottawa Winter Specialty Status page.
Review Past Years' Winter Specialty Status Pages.
See the Birding Ottawa Ottawa Winter Listing page.
Review the Birding Ottawa Current RBA or Older RBAs.
Check the Current Winter Finch Forecast or Past Winter Finch Forecasts courtesy Ron Pittaway.
Return to Birding Ottawa Where and When to See Guide.
Return to Birding Ottawa Table of Contents.
2007 - 2008: OTTAWA WINTER BIRD LIST
Count to February 29, 2008:
109 + 2
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This is meant to be a combined list for all Ottawa birders to submit to, and hopefully will be an accurate reflection of which species have been seen this winter within our OFNC checklist circle (50 km radius from the Peace Tower).
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Species |
Location |
Date |
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Snow Goose |
Dick Bell Park |
Dec. 1 |
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Canada Goose |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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Wood Duck |
Aylmer |
Dec. 1 |
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American Black Duck |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Mallard |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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Green-winged Teal |
March Valley Road |
Dec. 1 |
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Redhead |
Shirleys Bay |
Dec. 1 |
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Ring-necked Duck |
below Deschênes Rapids (QC side), Shirleys Bay |
Dec. 2 |
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Greater Scaup |
Shirleys Bay |
Dec. 7 |
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Lesser Scaup |
Deschênes Rapids (QC side), Shirleys Bay |
Dec. 1 |
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Harlequin Duck |
Champlain Bridge (QC side) |
Dec. 14 |
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Surf Scoter |
Dick Bell Park |
Dec. 1 |
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White-winged Scoter |
Dick Bell Park |
Dec. 1 |
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Black Scoter |
Dick Bell Park |
Dec. 1 |
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Long-tailed Duck |
Deschênes Rapids |
Dec. 4 |
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Bufflehead |
Deschênes Rapids (QC side) |
Dec. 2 |
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Common Goldeneye |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Barrow's Goldeneye |
Deschênes Rapids/Riverain Park |
Dec. 5 |
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Hooded Merganser |
Strathcona Park |
Dec. 1 |
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Common Merganser |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Red-breasted Merganser |
Aylmer Marina/Lac Leamy |
Dec. 1/Dec. 4 |
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Ruffed Grouse |
Hilda Road |
Dec. 27 |
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Gray Partridge |
Maple Grove Road |
Dec. 2 |
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Red-throated Loon |
Deschênes Rapids, QC |
Dec. 10 |
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Common Loon |
Shirleys Bay |
Dec. 1 |
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Red-necked Grebe |
Shirleys Bay |
Dec. 1 |
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Double-crested Cormorant |
Deschênes Rapids |
Dec. 2 |
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Great Blue Heron |
Gatineau sector CBC |
Dec. 16 |
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Turkey Vulture |
Tulip Valley exit, Autoroute 5 |
Feb. 20 |
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Bald Eagle |
Shirleys Bay |
Dec. 1 |
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Northern Harrier |
Chemin Papineau, S. of Luskville |
Jan. 19 |
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Sharp-shinned Hawk |
Hull |
Dec. 1 |
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Cooper's Hawk |
Aylmer |
Dec. 1 |
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Northern Goshawk |
Rue des Canotiers, Aylmer |
Dec. 8 |
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Red-shouldered Hawk |
Old Carp, Gourlay Lane and Huntmar Roads |
Dec. 22 |
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Red-tailed Hawk |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Rough-legged Hawk |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Golden Eagle |
Huntmar Road |
Dec. 4 |
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American Kestrel |
Eagleson Road |
Dec. 2 |
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Merlin |
Shirley Bay Feeders |
Dec. 1 |
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Peregrine Falcon |
Billings Bridge |
Dec. 1 |
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Gyrfalcon |
Deschênes Rapids, QC and ON |
Feb. 25 |
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Ring-billed Gull |
Ottawa and Rideau Rivers |
Dec. 1 |
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Herring Gull |
Ottawa and Rideau Rivers |
Dec. 1 |
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Iceland Gull |
below Deschênes Rapids |
Dec. 5 |
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Thayer's Gull |
Remic Rapids |
Dec. 25 |
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Lesser Black-backed Gull |
below Deschênes Rapids |
Dec. 5 |
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Glaucous Gull |
below Deschênes Rapids |
Dec. 5 |
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Great Black-backed Gull |
Ottawa River |
Dec. 1 |
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Rock Pigeon |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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Mourning Dove |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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Eastern Screech-Owl |
Dunrobin-Beckenridge CBC |
Dec. 22 |
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Great Horned Owl |
Parc Champlain, Aylmer |
Dec. 31 |
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Snowy Owl |
Deschênes Rapids |
Jan. 15 |
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Barred Owl |
Rifle Road |
Dec. 8 |
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Short-eared Owl |
Breckinridge |
Dec. 1 |
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Northern Saw-whet Owl |
Jack Pine Trail |
Jan. 11 |
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Belted Kingfisher |
Flewellyn Road, just W of Shea Road |
Feb. 16 |
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Red-bellied Woodpecker |
Rue Limbour, Gatineau |
Jan. 5 |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
The Arboretum |
Dec. 11 |
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Downy Woodpecker |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Hairy Woodpecker |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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American Three-toed Woodpecker |
Ramsey Lake Road |
Jan. 12 |
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Black-backed Woodpecker |
Jack Pine Trail |
Jan. 11 |
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Northern Flicker |
Britannia sector CBC |
Dec. 16 |
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Pileated Woodpecker |
Constance Bay |
Dec. 2 |
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Northern Shrike |
Luskville |
Dec. 2 |
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Blue Jay |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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American Crow |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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Common Raven |
Milton Road |
Dec. 1 |
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Horned Lark |
Diamondview Road |
Dec. 9 |
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Black-capped Chickadee |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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Tufted Titmouse |
103 Manitou Street, Forest Park, Embrun |
Dec. 22 |
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Red-breasted Nuthatch |
Fletcher Wildlife Garden |
Dec. 1 |
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White-breasted Nuthatch |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Brown Creeper |
Ottawa West |
Dec. 4 |
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Winter Wren |
Britannia |
Dec. 15 |
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Carolina Wren |
Graham Park / Qualcomm |
Dec. 8-11 |
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Golden-crowned Kinglet |
Lascelles, QC |
Dec. 21 |
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Townsend's Solitaire |
Fisher Heights |
Dec. 21 |
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Hermit Thrush |
Britannia |
Dec. 9 |
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American Robin |
Britannia |
Dec. 1 |
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Gray Catbird |
Constance Bay |
Dec. 8 |
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Northern Mockingbird |
Crestview Greenspace |
Jan. 5 |
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European Starling |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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Bohemian Waxwing |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Cedar Waxwing |
Britannia |
Dec. 1 |
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Yellow-rumped Warbler |
South of Manotick |
Feb. 29 |
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American Tree Sparrow |
Shirleys Bay Feeders |
Dec. 1 |
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Song Sparrow |
three on CBC |
Dec. 16 |
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White-throated Sparrow |
Fletcher Wildlife Garden |
Dec. 1 |
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White-crowned Sparrow |
Rue des Canotiers, Aylmer |
Feb. 12 |
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Dark-eyed Junco "Slate-colored" subspecies |
Fletcher Wildlife Garden |
Dec. 1 |
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"Oregon" subspecies |
Fletcher Wildlife Garden |
Dec. 1 |
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Lapland Longspur |
Rue Victor-Hugo, Gatineau |
Dec. 19 |
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Snow Bunting |
French Hill & O'Toole Rds |
Dec. 1 |
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Northern Cardinal |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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Red-winged Blackbird |
Riverview Park |
Dec. 6 |
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Rusty Blackbird |
Rockland |
Dec. 2 |
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Common Grackle |
Wychwood |
Dec. 8 |
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Brown-headed Cowbird |
Carlsbad Springs |
Jan. 6 |
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Pine Grosbeak |
Carlsbad Springs |
Dec. 1 |
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Purple Finch |
Gloucester sector CBC |
Dec. 16 |
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House Finch |
Fletcher Wildlife Garden |
Dec. 1 |
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White-winged Crossbill |
Henry Farm Drive |
Jan. 26 |
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Common Redpoll |
Fletcher Wildlife Garden |
Dec. 2 |
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Hoary Redpoll |
Baillie Road, Aylmer |
Dec. 2 |
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Pine Siskin |
Constance Bay |
Dec. 2 |
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American Goldfinch |
various |
Dec. 1 |
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House Sparrow |
common |
Dec. 1 |
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Not on Checklist |
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Wild Turkey |
Luskville |
Dec. 2 |
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Europian Goldfinch |
Rue de la Brunante, Gatineau |
Jan. 5 |
Check the Birding Ottawa Current Ottawa Winter List.
Check the Birding Ottawa Past Years' Ottawa Winter Lists.
Birding Ottawa's Cumulative Ottawa Winter Lists
Check the last Birding Ottawa Winter Specialty Status page.
Review Past Years' Winter Specialty Status Pages.
See the Birding Ottawa Ottawa Winter Listing page.
Review the Birding Ottawa Current RBA or Older RBAs.
Check the Current Winter Finch Forecast or Past Winter Finch Forecasts courtesy Ron Pittaway.
Return to Birding Ottawa Where and When to See Guide.
Return to Birding Ottawa Table of Contents.
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