Arctic - Yellowknife - Edmonton (Canada)

Arctic - Yellowknife - Edmonton (Canada)

DAY 1: (28-Jun) Flight from Ottawa to Edmonton, Stay at Best Western Premier Denhum, Leduc

DAY 2: (29-Jun)

Birding in-and-around Edmonton
Elk Island National Park
Bison Loop Road
Amisk Wuche Trail
Picnic lunch on the shores of Astotin Lake
Beaverhill Bird Observatory

 

American Kestrel

Bonaparte's Gull

Red-eyed Vireo

Pale Swallowtail

Ring-necked Duck

Clay-colored Sparrow

LeConte's Sparrow

LeConte's Sparrow

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

White-throated Sparrow

American Bison

American Bison

White-faced Ibis

Blue-winged Teal

Eastern Kingbird

Tree Swallow

Red-tailed Hawk

Richardson's Ground Squirrel

Wilson's Snipe

Northern House Wren

Forster's Tern

Herring Gull

Red-winged Blackbird female

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Northern Shoveler female

Black Tern

Baltimore Oriole

American Avocet

American Avocet

Black-necked Stilt

Greater Yellowlegs

Spotted Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Black-necked Stilt

Franklin's Gull

Willet

Wilson's Phalarope

Killdeer

Willet

Marbled Godwit

Marbled Godwit

Savannah Sparrow

Red-necked Grebe

American Coot

Ruddy Duck

Ruddy Duck

Mallard female

Goldeneye

American Crow

Purple Martin

Redhead

American White Pelican

Red-winged Blackbird

DAY 3: (30-Jun)

Flight from Edmonton to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Hotel, the Chateau Nova

Niven Lake

Bufflehead

Lesser Scaup male

Mallard male

Lesser Scaup

American Wigeon

Canvasback female

Yellow Warbler

Sora

Horned Grebe

Bald Eagle

Canada Jay imm

Canada Jay

Boreal Chickadee

Chipping Sparrow

Black-billed Magpie

Beaver

DAY 4: (01-Jul) Canada Day

Niven Lake

Willow Flats along the shore of Great Slave Lake

Long Lake at Fred Henne Territorial Park

Sora juv

Red Fox

Red Fox

Horned Grebe

Lincoln's Sparrow

Green-winged Teal

Eastern Phoebe

Yellow Warbler    

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Swamp Sparrow

Cliff Swallow

White-crowned Sparrow

California Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

Arctic Tern

Bufflehead female

Short-billed Gull

Common Raven

Greater Yellowlegs

DAY 5: (02-Jul)

Flight from Yellowknife to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut 

Green Row Suites

Kulvak Rd going north

Red-necked Phalarope

Tundra Swan

Snow Bunting

King Eider - female and male

Yellow-billed Loon

Glaucous Gull

Baird's Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Red-throated Loon

DAY 6: (03-Jul)

Arctic Island Lodge

Dew Line Rd 

Stilt Sandpiper

Long-tailed Duck

Stilt Sandpiper

Arctic Fox

Arctic Fox

DAY 7: (04-Jul)

Arctic Islands Lodge

West Road

Arctic Ridgeline

Arctic Hare

Reindeer or Caribou

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

American Golden-Plover

Lapland Longspur male

American Golden-Plover

Sandhill Crane

Sandhill Crane

Common Eider

Lapland Longspur female

Glaucous Gull

DAY 8: (05-Jul) Ovayuk road 

Semipalmated Plover

Common Eider female

Peregrine Falcon

Long-tailed Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

Redpoll

Lapland Longspur male

Sabine's Gull

Pectoral Sandpiper

King Eider female

DAY 9: (06-Jul) Mt. Ovayuk (Mt. Pelly)

Red-breasted Merganser

Parasitic Jaeger

Arctic Hare

Horned Lark

Snow Goose

Tundra Swan

Arctic Tern

Sabine's Gull

Black-bellied Plover

Black-bellied Plover juv

Arctic Loon

Cackling Goose

Red-necked Phalarope

Semipalmated Plover

DAY 10: (07-Jul)

Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay

Dump-ground

Flight from Cambridge Bay to Yellowknife to Edmonton 

Long-tailed Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

Semipalmated Sandpiper

White-throated Sparrow

DAY 11: Departure from Edmonton to Ottawa