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Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada | Parc national du Canada des Hautes-Terres-du-Cap-Breton

A guide to potential species observed in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. For more information about Cape Breton Highlands National Park, please visit: ...more ↓

Spotted Sandpiper 1
Actitis macularius
Dovekie 2
Alle alle
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Arenaria interpres
Sanderling 4
Calidris alba
White-rumped Sandpiper 5
Calidris fuscicollis
Purple Sandpiper 6
Calidris maritima
Pectoral Sandpiper 6
Calidris melanotos
Least Sandpiper 7
Calidris minutilla
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8
Calidris pusilla
Black Guillemot 9
Cepphus grylle
Piping Plover 10
Charadrius melodus
Semipalmated Plover 11
Charadrius semipalmatus
Killdeer 12
Charadrius vociferus
Black-headed Gull 13
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Wilson's Snipe 14
Gallinago delicata
Herring Gull 15
Larus argentatus
Ring-billed Gull 16
Larus delawarensis
Iceland Gull 17
Larus glaucoides
Glaucous Gull 18
Larus hyperboreus
Great Black-backed Gull 19
Larus marinus
Short-billed Dowitcher 20
Limnodromus griseus
Whimbrel 21
Numenius phaeopus
American Golden-Plover 5
Pluvialis dominica
Black-bellied Plover 22
Pluvialis squatarola
American Woodcock 5
Scolopax minor
Common Tern 23
Sterna hirundo
Arctic Tern 24
Sterna paradisaea
Lesser Yellowlegs 25
Tringa flavipes
Greater Yellowlegs 22
Tringa melanoleuca
Willet 5
Tringa semipalmata
Solitary Sandpiper 22
Tringa solitaria
Common Murre 26
Uria aalge
Thick-billed Murre 27
Uria lomvia

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