Wildlife


*Wildlife*
Animals that you may encounter would be mule deer, moose, caribou, black bear, grizzly bear, white tail deer, cougar, wolves along with coyotes and lynx.
Birdwatching
The Nazko Valley provides birders with a wonderful opportunity to view undisturbed populations of birds. Bald Eagles and Ospreys, rare White Pelicans and Trumpeter Swans are but a few to be seen. Names and sequence based on Pocket checklist of British Columbia Birds published by WBT Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia. Loons - Common Loon Grebes - Red-necked Grebe Pelicans - American White Pelican Bittern, Herons, Egrets - American Bittern Great Blue Heron Geese, Swans, Ducks - Canada goose Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan American Wigeon Mallard Northern Shoveller Green-winged Teal Scaup – Greater Harlequin Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow’s Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Pintail Wood Duck Ospreys, Hawks, Eagles - Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle Falcons - American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Gyre falcon Grouse - Ruffled Grouse Spruce Grouse Willow Ptarmigan Sharp-tailed Grouse Cranes - Blue Heron Sandhill Crane Plovers - Killdeer Sandpipers, Phalaropes - Greater Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Common Snipe Jaegers, Gulls, Terns - Bonaparte’s Gull Black Tern Pigeons, Doves - Rock Dove Mourning Dove Typical Owls - Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy Owl Great Grey Owl Goatsuckers - Common Nighthawk Hummingbirds - Calliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Kingfishers - Belted Kingfisher	Woodpeckers - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker Red-breasted Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Flycatchers - Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Shrikes - Northern Shrike Jays, Magpies, Crows - Gray Jay Steller’s Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Larks - Horned Lark Swallows - Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Chickadees - Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Boreal Chickadee Nuthatches - Red-breasted Nuthatch Creepers - Brown Creeper Wrens - Winter Wren Dippers - American Dipper Kinglets - Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Bluebirds, Thrushes - Mountain Bluebird Townsend’s Solitaire Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Starlings - European Starling Wagtails, Pipits - American Pipit Waxwings - Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing Wood-warblers - Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Townsend’s Warbler American Redstart Wilson’s Warbler Tanagers - Western Tanager Sparrows, Longspurs - Spotted Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Grosbeaks, Buntings - Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Blackbirds, Orioles - Red-winged Blackbird Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Finches, Siskins, Crossbills - Pine Grosbeak Purple Finch Whit-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak