Wildlife and Birds Seen on Our Whale Watching Tours

Birding on San Juan Island

This is a list of birds that you are likely to see on the water in the San Juan Islands Pacific Loon Common Loon Red-Necked Grebe Double-Crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon Black Oystercatcher Bonaparte's Gull Heermann's Gull Mew Gull Glaucous-Winged Gull Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot Marbled Murrelet Rhinoceros Auklet Belted Kingfisher White-winged Scoter Red-Breasted Merganser Red-Necked Phalarope Black Turnstone Surfbird. Then . . . not common, but seen on the water: Parasitic Jaeger Sooty Shearwater Fork-Tailed Storm Petrel Western Gull Common Tern Northern Crow Common Raven Western Grebe Horned Grebe.

This list is birds that are in the islands in the fall and/or winter months,, not necessarily on the water, and not listed above

Pied-Billed Grebe
Brandt's Cormorant
Trumpeter Swan
Brant
Green-Winged Teal
Mallard Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Ring-Necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Old squaw
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawk
Rough-Legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Merlin
Ring-Necked Pheasant
Blue Grouse
Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite
California Quail
Virginia Rail
American Coot
Black-Bellied Plover
Pacific Golden-Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semi-palmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowleg
Lesser Yellowleg
Solitary Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler
Whimbrel
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Rock Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-Billed Dowitcher
Herring Gull
Thayer's Gull
Ancient Murrelet
Rock Dove
Band-Tailed Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Common Barn Owl
Western Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Short-Eared Owl
Northern Saw-Whet Owl
Red-Breasted Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eurasian Skylark
Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
American Dipper
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Shrike
European Starling
Hutton's Vireo
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Spotted Towheee
Fox Sparrow

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Mature Bald Eagle on San Juan Island by San Juan Island photographer Mark Gardner

Trumpeter Swans on San Juan Island

Stellar Sea Lion and Cormorant off San Juan Island by guest John Elderige

Rhinoceros Auklet on San Juan Island by San Juan Island photographer Mark Gardner

Buffle head sea bird by Claude Steelman of WildShots

Common Murre off San Juan Island by San Juan Photographer Mark Gardner

Sea Gull off San Juan Island by guest Herb Hartman

Immature Eagle by guest Laura Simmons taken from our boat

Annas Hummingbird on San Juan Island by Claude Steelman of WildShots.com

California Sea Lion - once in a while they wonder into the San Juan Islands

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