page_title: Fauna of Toronto
section_title: Birds
hierarchical_section_title: Fauna of Toronto / Birds
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) – Ontario, Canada Deutsch: Blauhäher (Cyanocitta cristata) – Ontario, Canada
context_page_description: The fauna of Toronto include a variety of different species that have adapted to the urban environment, its parks, its ravine system, and the creeks and rivers that run throughout Toronto. Many other animals from outside the city limits have been known to straddle inside on from time to time.
context_section_description: At least 199 bird species were confirmed to breed in the area, with a total of 403 species of birds recorded in the Greater Toronto Area (either breeding, in migration, or vagrant). The following bird species (sorted by family) have been spotted in the City of Toronto, and Greater Toronto:
  Accipitridae
  Bald eagle
  Six species from the genus Buteo
  Cooper's hawk
  Golden eagle
  Mississippi kite
  Northern goshawk
  Northern harrier
  Sharp-shinned hawk
  Swallow-tailed kite
  Anatidae
  Eight species from the subfamily Anatinae
  Barrow's goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Canada goose
  Canvasback
  Common eider
  Common goldeneye
  Common merganser
  Lesser scaup
  Long-tailed duck
  Hooded merganser
  Harlequin duck
  Mute swan
  Red-breasted merganser
  Redhead
  Ruddy duck
  Trumpeter swan
  Wood duck
  Auks
  Ancient murrelet
  Black guillemot
  Little auk
  Razorbill
  Thick-billed murre
  Barn-owl
  Barn owl
  Calcariidae
  Lapland longspur
  Chestnut-collared longspur
  Snow bunting
  Cardinal
  Blue grosbeak
  Dickcissel
  Indigo bunting
  Lazuli bunting
  Northern cardinal
  Painted bunting
  Rose-breasted grosbeak
  Summer tanager
  Western tanager
  Charadriidae
  American golden-plover
  Black-bellied Plover
  Killdeer
  Semipalmated Plover
  Piping Plover
  Coots
  American coot
  American purple gallinule
  Common gallinule
  King rail
  Sora
  Virginia rail
  Yellow rail
  Cormorant
  Double-crested cormorant
  Great cormorant
  Crane
  Sandhill crane
  Whooping crane
  Crow
  American crow
  Blue jay
  Black-billed magpie
  Common raven
  Canada jay
  Western jackdaw
  Cuckoo
  Black-billed cuckoo
  Yellow-billed cuckoo
  Falcon
  American kestrel
  Merlin
  Gyrfalcon
  Peregrine falcon
  Finch
  Arctic redpoll
  American goldfinch
  Brambling
  Common redpoll
  Evening grosbeak
  House finch
  Lesser goldfinch
  Pine grosbeak
  Pine siskin
  Purple finch
  Red crossbill
  Two-barred crossbill
  Gannet
  Northern gannet
  Gnatcatcher
  Blue-grey gnatcatcher
  Grebe
  Black-necked grebe
  Horned grebe
  Pied-billed grebe
  Red-necked grebe
  Western grebe
  Heron
  American bittern
  Black-crowned night heron
  Cattle egret
  Green heron
  Great blue heron
  Great egret
  Little blue heron
  Snowy egret
  Tricolored heron
  Yellow-crowned night heron
  Hummingbird
  Rufous hummingbird
  Ruby-throated hummingbird
  Ibis
  American white ibis
  Glossy ibis
  White-faced ibis
  Icterid
  Baltimore oriole
  Bobolink
  Brewer's blackbird
  Brown-headed cowbird
  Bullock's oriole
  Common grackle
  Eastern meadowlark
  Orchard oriole
  Red-winged blackbird
  Rusty blackbird
  Western meadowlark
  Yellow-headed blackbird
  Kingfisher
  Belted kingfisher
  Kinglet
  Golden-crowned kinglet
  Ruby-crowned kinglet
  Laridae
  Arctic tern
  Black-headed gull
  Black-legged kittiwake
  Black skimmer
  Black tern
  Bonaparte's gull
  Caspian tern
  Forster's tern
  Franklin's gull
  Ivory gull
  Eleven species from the genus Larus
  Laughing gull
  Little gull
  Sabine's gull
  Lark
  Horned lark
  Loon
  Common loon
  Pacific loon
  Red-throated loon
  Mimid
  Brown thrasher
  Grey catbird
  Northern mockingbird
  Motacillidae
  Buff-bellied pipit
  New World quail
  Northern bobwhite
  New World vulture
  Black vulture
  Turkey vulture
  New World warbler
  52 species of New World warblers
  Nightjar
  Chuck-will’s-widow
  Common nighthawk
  Eastern whip-poor-will
  Nuthatch
  Red-breasted nuthatch
  White-breasted nuthatch
  Old World flycatcher
  Northern wheatear
  Siberian rubythroat
  Osprey
  Osprey
  Oystercatcher
  American oystercatcher
  Pelican
  American white pelican
  Brown pelican
  Phasianidae
  Common pheasant
  Grey partridge
  Ruffed grouse
  Spruce grouse
  Willow ptarmigan
  Wild turkey
  Pigeons
  Band-tailed pigeon
  Eurasian collared dove
  Mourning dove
  Rock dove
  White-winged dove
  Procellariidae
  Black-capped petrel
  Great shearwater
  Manx shearwater
  Northern fulmar
  Recurvirostridae
  American avocet
  Black-necked stilt
  Sandpiper
  34 species of sandpipers
  Shrike
  Loggerhead shrike
  Northern shrike
  Skua
  Long-tailed jaeger
  Pomarine jaeger
  Parasitic jaeger
  Sparrows
  24 species of sparrows
  Starling
  Common starling
  Swallows
  Barn swallow
  Cave swallow
  Northern rough-winged swallow
  Purple martin
  Sand martin
  Tree swallow
  Swift
  Chimney swift
  Thrush
  American robin
  Eastern bluebird
  Fieldfare
  Grey-cheeked thrush
  Hermit thrush
  Northern wheatear
  Siberian rubythroat
  Swainson's thrush
  Townsend's solitaire
  Varied thrush
  Veery
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caption: Blue jays may be seen throughout the city. Toronto's Major League Baseball team is named after the bird.
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