Below is a list of all the species I identified on my trip. Lifers are shown in bold. I am not including the dowitcher I saw at Astotin Lake, the hummingbird I saw at my sister’s hotel on the day of her wedding, or the scaup species I saw in Calgary. I am, however, including the possible Crimson-ringed Whiteface and the emerald (Somatochlora) species I saw in Hinton for reasons that are purely arbitrary (which are mainly that I don’t like adding “spuhs” to my bird lists, though I don’t mind for my other lists).
Altogether I saw 74 bird species, 14 mammals, 13 butterfly species and 11 dragonfly species…not bad at all for the end of July!
| BIRDS 1. Canada Goose 2. Mallard 3. Blue-winged Teal 4. Ring-necked Duck 5. Bufflehead 6. Common Merganser 7. Ruddy Duck 8. Spruce Grouse 9. Common Loon 10. Pied-billed Grebe 11. Horned Grebe 12. Red-necked Grebe 13. Eared Grebe 14. Double-crested Cormorant 15. American White Pelican 16. Black-crowned Night-Heron 17. Osprey 18. Northern Harrier 19. Bald Eagle 20. Swainson’s Hawk 21. Red-tailed Hawk 22. Sora 23. American Coot 24. Killdeer 25. Spotted Sandpiper 26. Semipalmated Sandpiper 27. Wilson’s Snipe 28. Bonaparte’s Gull 29. Ring-billed Gull 30. California Gull 31. Black Tern 32. Rock Pigeon 33. Great Horned Owl 34. Belted Kingfisher 35. Northern Flicker 36. Pileated Woodpecker 37. Least Flycatcher 38. Red-eyed Vireo 39. Black-billed Magpie 40. Clark’s Nutcracker 41. American Crow 42. Common Raven 43. Purple Martin 44. Tree Swallow 45. Black-capped Chickadee 46. Mountain Chickadee 47. Red-breasted Nuthatch 48. House Wren 49. Golden-crowned Kinglet 50. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 51. Swainson’s Thrush 52. Hermit Thrush 53. American Robin 54. Cedar Waxwing 55. Tennessee Warbler 56. Common Yellowthroat 57. Yellow-rumped Warbler 58. Chipping Sparrow 59. Clay-colored Sparrow 60. Savannah Sparrow 61. Song Sparrow 62. Lincoln’s Sparrow 63. Swamp Sparrow 64. White-throated Sparrow 65. Dark-eyed Junco 66. Red-winged Blackbird 67. Yellow-headed Blackbird 68. House Finch 69. Pine Siskin 70. American Goldfinch 71. House Sparrow |
MAMMALS 1. Bison 2. Elk 3. Deer sp. 4. Bighorn Sheep 5. Wolf 6. Muskrat 7. American Red Squirrel 8. Columbian Ground Squirrel 9. Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel 10. Least Chipmunk 11. Vole sp. 12. Hoary Marmot 13. White-tailed Jackrabbit 14. American Pika  Hoary Marmot BUTTERFLIES  Greenish Blue ODONATA 1. Northern Spreadwing 2. Variable Darner 3. Pale Snaketail 4. Emerald (Somatochlora) sp. 5. Hudsonian Whiteface 6. Boreal Whiteface 7. Poss. Crimson-ringed Whiteface 8. Variegated Meadowhawk 9. Black Meadowhawk 10. Cherry-faced Meadowhawk 11. Saffron-winged Meadowhawk |
The Pathless Wood 