Boreal Bird Species 80 Species with 50% or More of Their Western Hemisphere Breeding Range and Breeding Populations in North America’s Boreal Forest From a Report by Peter Blancher of Bird Studies Canada to the Boreal Songbird Initiative (2005): http://www.borealbirds.org/bsi-bscreport-april2005.pdf Waterfowl Family Trumpeter Swan American Wigeon American Black Duck Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Common Merganser Grouse Family Ruffed Grouse Spruce Grouse White-tailed Ptarmigan Loon Family Pacific Loon Common Loon Grebe Family Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Cormorant Family Great Cormorant Falcon Family Merlin Rail Family Yellow Rail Plover Family Semipalmated Plover Sandpiper Family Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Least Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Red-necked Phalarope Gull and Family Bonaparte’s Gull Mew Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Common Tern Owl Family Northern Hawk Owl Great Gray Owl Boreal Owl Woodpecker Family Yellow-bellied Sapsucker American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Flycatcher Family Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Shrike Family Northern Shrike Vireo Family Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Crow and Jay Family Gray Jay Chickadee and Titmouse Family Boreal Chickadee Gray-headed Chickadee Kinglet Family Ruby-crowned Kinglet Thrush Family Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Waxwing Family Bohemian Waxwing Wood-warbler Family Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Northern Waterthrush Connecticut Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Canada Warbler Sparrow Family Le Conte’s Sparrow Fox Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Blackbird Family Rusty Blackbird Finch Family Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Pine Grosbeak White-winged Crossbill