Bird checklists - taxonomy - distribution - maps - links
Welcome Guest
Avibase - Bird Checklists of the World
Nunavut
This checklist includes all bird species found in Nunavut , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2025. If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
Bird Checklists of the World is part of Avibase and Bird links to the World, which are designed and maintained by Denis Lepage, and hosted by Birds Canada, which is a co-partner of Birdlife International.
© Denis Lepage 2026
Go back to Bird Checklists of the World
Go back to Bird Links to the World
Listen to random bird songs from Xeno-Canto for this region:
Recordings not starting automatically? Try enabling autoplay in your browser, or click the play button below.
Country or region: Nunavut [map]
Number of species: 299
Number of globally threatened species: 21
Number of extinct species: 1
Number of introduced species: 1
Date last reviewed: 2020-12-20
Last modified: 2025-10-12
Number of globally threatened species: 21
Number of extinct species: 1
Number of introduced species: 1
Date last reviewed: 2020-12-20
Last modified: 2025-10-12
| ||
| Bar-headed Goose | Anser indicus | Uncertain origin |
| Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | |
| Ross's Goose | Anser rossii | |
| Graylag Goose | Anser anser | Uncertain origin |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | |
| Pink-footed Goose | Anser brachyrhynchus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brant | Branta bernicla | |
| Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | Rare/Accidental |
| Cackling Goose | Branta hutchinsii | |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | |
| Trumpeter Swan | Cygnus buccinator | Rare/Accidental |
| Tundra Swan | Cygnus columbianus | |
| Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | Uncertain origin |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| American Black Duck | Anas rubripes | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Canvasback | Aythya valisineria | Rare/Accidental |
| Redhead | Aythya americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | |
| Steller's Eider | Polysticta stelleri | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| King Eider | Somateria spectabilis | |
| Common Eider | Somateria mollissima | Near-threatened |
| Harlequin Duck | Histrionicus histrionicus | |
| Surf Scoter | Melanitta perspicillata | |
| White-winged Scoter | Melanitta deglandi | |
| Black Scoter | Melanitta americana | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Vulnerable |
| Bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | |
| Barrow's Goldeneye | Bucephala islandica | |
| Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Merganser | Mergus merganser | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Sharp-tailed Grouse | Tympanuchus phasianellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Ptarmigan | Lagopus lagopus | |
| Rock Ptarmigan | Lagopus muta | |
| Spruce Grouse | Canachites canadensis | |
| ||
| Passenger Pigeon | Ectopistes migratorius | Rare/Accidental Extinct |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | Rare/Accidental |
| Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Chimney Swift | Chaetura pelagica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| ||
| Rufous Hummingbird | Selasphorus rufus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| ||
| Corn Crake | Crex crex | Rare/Accidental |
| Sora | Porzana carolina | Rare/Accidental |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Rail | Coturnicops noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Sandhill Crane | Antigone canadensis | |
| Whooping Crane | Grus americana | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| ||
| American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Vulnerable |
| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Near-threatened |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| ||
| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Hudsonian Whimbrel | Numenius hudsonicus | |
| Eskimo Curlew | Numenius borealis | Extirpated Critically endangered (possibly extinct) |
| Long-billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Vulnerable |
| Marbled Godwit | Limosa fedoa | Vulnerable |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Vulnerable |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Vulnerable |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Near-threatened |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Near-threatened |
| Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Vulnerable |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Near-threatened |
| ||
| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | Vulnerable |
| Horned Puffin | Fratercula corniculata | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Guillemot | Cepphus grylle | |
| Razorbill | Alca torda | |
| Dovekie | Alle alle | |
| Thick-billed Murre | Uria lomvia | |
| Common Murre | Uria aalge | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | |
| Ross's Gull | Rhodostethia rosea | |
| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Vulnerable |
| Ivory Gull | Pagophila eburnea | Near-threatened |
| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | Rare/Accidental |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-billed Gull | Larus brachyrhynchus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
| California Gull | Larus californicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Glaucous-winged Gull | Larus glaucescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Slaty-backed Gull | Larus schistisagus | Rare/Accidental |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| ||
| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | Rare/Accidental |
| Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | Vulnerable |
| Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Red-throated Loon | Gavia stellata | |
| Pacific Loon | Gavia pacifica | |
| Common Loon | Gavia immer | |
| Yellow-billed Loon | Gavia adamsii | Near-threatened |
| ||
| Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche chlororhynchos | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| ||
| Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Short-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | Rare/Accidental |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Nannopterum auritum | |
| ||
| American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | |
| Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| American White Pelican | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
| ||
| Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus | |
| American Goshawk | Astur atricapillus | |
| Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | |
| Bald Eagle | Haliaeetus leucocephalus | |
| Swainson's Hawk | Buteo swainsoni | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Rough-legged Hawk | Buteo lagopus | |
| ||
| Snowy Owl | Bubo scandiacus | Vulnerable |
| Great Horned Owl | Bubo virginianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Hawk Owl | Surnia ulula | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Gray Owl | Strix nebulosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
| Boreal Owl | Aegolius funereus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | Rare/Accidental |
| American Three-toed Woodpecker | Picoides dorsalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-backed Woodpecker | Picoides arcticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Downy Woodpecker | Dryobates pubescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Hairy Woodpecker | Leuconotopicus villosus | |
| Pileated Woodpecker | Dryocopus pileatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Flicker | Colaptes auratus | |
| ||
| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
| Gyrfalcon | Falco rusticolus | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
| ||
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | Contopus cooperi | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Empidonax flaviventris | Rare/Accidental |
| Alder Flycatcher | Empidonax alnorum | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Flycatcher | Empidonax minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Phoebe | Sayornis phoebe | Rare/Accidental |
| Say's Phoebe | Sayornis saya | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | Myiarchus crinitus | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Kingbird | Tyrannus verticalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Rare/Accidental |
| Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Blue-headed Vireo | Vireo solitarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Philadelphia Vireo | Vireo philadelphicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus | |
| ||
| Northern Shrike | Lanius borealis | |
| ||
| Canada Jay | Perisoreus canadensis | |
| Blue Jay | Cyanocitta cristata | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-billed Magpie | Pica hudsonia | Rare/Accidental |
| American Crow | Corvus brachyrhynchos | |
| Common Raven | Corvus corax | |
| ||
| Black-capped Chickadee | Poecile atricapillus | Rare/Accidental |
| Boreal Chickadee | Poecile hudsonicus | |
| ||
| Horned Lark | Eremophila alpestris | |
| ||
| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
| Tree Swallow | Tachycineta bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Violet-green Swallow | Tachycineta thalassina | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Martin | Progne subis | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | Rare/Accidental |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | |
| ||
| Arctic Warbler | Phylloscopus borealis | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Corthylio calendula | |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | Regulus satrapa | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | Sitta canadensis | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Brown Creeper | Certhia americana | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Northern House Wren | Troglodytes aedon | Rare/Accidental |
| Winter Wren | Troglodytes hiemalis | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides | Rare/Accidental |
| Townsend's Solitaire | Myadestes townsendi | Rare/Accidental |
| Varied Thrush | Ixoreus naevius | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | |
| Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | |
| Hermit Thrush | Catharus guttatus | |
| Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | Rare/Accidental |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | Rare/Accidental |
| American Robin | Turdus migratorius | |
| ||
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
| ||
| Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
| ||
| Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | Rare/Accidental |
| American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | |
| ||
| Pine Grosbeak | Pinicola enucleator | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch | Leucosticte tephrocotis | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Finch | Haemorhous purpureus | Rare/Accidental |
| Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | |
| Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Crossbill | Loxia leucoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Pine Siskin | Spinus pinus | Rare/Accidental |
| American Goldfinch | Spinus tristis | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | |
| Chestnut-collared Longspur | Calcarius ornatus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Smith's Longspur | Calcarius pictus | |
| Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | |
| ||
| Chipping Sparrow | Spizella passerina | Rare/Accidental |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | Spizella pallida | Rare/Accidental |
| American Tree Sparrow | Spizelloides arborea | |
| Fox Sparrow | Passerella iliaca | |
| Dark-eyed Junco | Junco hyemalis | |
| White-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia leucophrys | |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia atricapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Harris's Sparrow | Zonotrichia querula | Near-threatened |
| White-throated Sparrow | Zonotrichia albicollis | |
| LeConte's Sparrow | Ammospiza leconteii | |
| Nelson's Sparrow | Ammospiza nelsoni | Rare/Accidental |
| Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | |
| Song Sparrow | Melospiza melodia | Rare/Accidental |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | Melospiza lincolnii | |
| Swamp Sparrow | Melospiza georgiana | |
| Spotted Towhee | Pipilo maculatus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Yellow-headed Blackbird | Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Western Meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta | Rare/Accidental |
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | Molothrus ater | Rare/Accidental |
| Rusty Blackbird | Euphagus carolinus | Vulnerable |
| Brewer's Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Common Grackle | Quiscalus quiscula | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Great-tailed Grackle | Quiscalus mexicanus | Rare/Accidental |
| ||
| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | Rare/Accidental |
| Tennessee Warbler | Leiothlypis peregrina | |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | Leiothlypis celata | |
| Nashville Warbler | Leiothlypis ruficapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | Rare/Accidental |
| MacGillivray's Warbler | Geothlypis tolmiei | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | Rare/Accidental |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Magnolia Warbler | Setophaga magnolia | Rare/Accidental |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | Setophaga castanea | Rare/Accidental |
| Blackburnian Warbler | Setophaga fusca | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Yellow Warbler | Setophaga aestiva | |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | Setophaga pensylvanica | Rare/Accidental |
| Blackpoll Warbler | Setophaga striata | Near-threatened |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | Setophaga caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Palm Warbler | Setophaga palmarum | |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | |
| Townsend's Warbler | Setophaga townsendi | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Warbler | Cardellina pusilla | |
| ||
| Western Tanager | Piranga ludoviciana | Rare/Accidental |
| Painted Bunting | Passerina ciris | Rare/Accidental |
References (partial list)
Avibase has been visited 477,105,349 times since 24 June 2003. © Denis Lepage | Privacy policy
