Sightseeings in Central Island: Bird Watching in Central Island Region of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Central Island bird watching

More than 250 species of our fine feathered friends live in Oceanside year-round or stop in on annual migration routes, making this one of the top bird watching places in the country. Bird watching happens everywhere, especially near the beaches and in the parks. One of Oceanside’s biggest annual events is the Brant Wildlife Festival in April, a three-day family event that celebrates the arrival of thousands of Brant geese and features art, photography, and carving displays, family activities, and tours. The list of birds that can be viewed in Oceanside includes: American Coot — American Dipper — American Goldfinch — American Kestrel — American Pipit — American Robin — American Tree Sparrow (rare) — American Wigeon — Anna’s Hummingbird — Baird’s Sandpiper — Bald Eagle — Band-tailed Pigeon — Barn Owl — Barn Swallow — Barred Owl — Barrow’s Goldeneye — Belted Kingfisher — Bewick’s Wren — Black-bellied Plover — Black-headed Grosbeak — Black-throated Gray Warbler — Black Oystercatcher — Black Scoter — Black Swift — Black Tern (rare) — Black Turnstone — Blue-winged Teal — Blue Grouse — Bonaparte’s Gull — Brandt’s Cormorant — Brant — Brewer’s Blackbird — Brown-headed Cowbird — Brown Creeper — Bufflehead — Bushtit — California Gull — California Quail — Canada Goose — Canvasback — Caspian Tern — Cassin’s Auklet (rare) — Cedar Waxwing — Chestnut-backed Chickadee — Chipping Sparrow — Cinnamon Teal — Cliff Swallow — Common Goldeneye — Common Loon — Common Merganser — Common Murre — Common Nighthawk — Common Raven — Common Snipe — Common Tern — Common Yellowthroat — Cooper’s Hawk — Dark-eyed Junco — Double-crested Cormorant — Downy Woodpecker — Dunlin — Eastern Kingbird — Eurasian Wigeon — European Starling — Evening Grosbeak — Fox Sparrow — Gadwall — Glaucous-winged Gull — Glaucous Gull — Golden-crowned Kinglet — Gray Jay — Great Horned Owl — Greater Scaup — Greater White-fronted Goose — Greater Yellowlegs — Green-backed Heron — Green-winged Teal — Hairy Woodpecker — Hammond’s Flycatcher — Harlequin Duck — Harris’ Sparrow (rare) — Hermit Thrush — Herring Gull — Hooded Merganser — Horned Grebe — Horned Lark — House Finch — House Sparrow — Hutton’s Vireo — Killdeer — Lapland Longspur — Least Sandpiper — Lesser Scaup — Lesser Yellowlegs — Lincoln’s Sparrow — Long-billed Dowitcher — Long-tailed Duck — Long-tailed Jaeger (rare) — MacGillivray’s Warbler — Mallard — Marble Godwit (rare) — Marbled Murrelet — Marsh Wren — Merlin — Mew Gull — Mountain Bluebird — Nashville Warbler (rare) — Northern Flicker — Northern Goshawk — Northern Harrier — Northern Pintail — Northern Pygmy-Owl — Northern Rough-winged Swallow — Northern Saw-whet Owl — Northern Shoveler — Northern Shrike — Northwestern Crow — Olive-sided Flycatcher — Orange-crowned Warbler — Osprey — Pacific-slope Flycatcher — Pacific Loon — Parasitic Jaeger (rare) — Pectoral Sandpiper — Pelagic Cormorant — Peregrine Falcon — Phinoceros Auklet — Pied-billed Grebe — Pigeon Guillemot — Pileated Woodpecker — Pine Grosbeak (rare) — Pine Siskin — Purple Finch — Purple Martin (rare) — Red-breasted Merganser — Red-breasted Nuthatch — Red-breasted Sapsucker — Red-eyed Vireo — Red-necked Grebe — Red-necked Phalarope — Red-tailed Hawk — Red-throated Loon — Red-winged Blackbird — Red Crossbill — Ring-billed Gull — Ring-necked Duck — Ring-necked Pheasant — Rock Dove — Rough-legged Hawk — Ruby-crowned Kinglet — Ruddy Duck — Ruffled Grouse — Rufous Hummingbird — Sanderling — Sandhill Crane — Savannah Sparrow — Say’s Phoebe — Semipalmated Plover — Sharp-shinned Hawk — Short-billed Dowitcher — Short-eared Owl — Snow Bunting — Snow Goose — Snowy Owl — Solitary Sandpiper — Solitary Vireo — Song Sparrow — Sora — Spotted Sandpiper — Spotted Towhee — Steller’s Jay — Surfbird (rare) — Swainson’s Thrush — Thayer’s Gull — Townsend’s Solitaire — Townsend’s Warbler — Tree Swallow — Trumpeter Swan — Tundra Swan (rare) — Turkey Vulture — Varied Thrush — Vaux’s Swift — Violet-green Swallow — Virginia Rail — Warbling Vireo — Western Bluebird — Western Grebe — Western Gull — Western Kingbird — Western Meadowlark — Western Sandpiper — Western Screech-Owl — Western Tanager — Western Wood-Pewee — Whimbrel — White-throated Sparrow — White-winged Scoter — Willow Flycatcher — Wilson’s Phalarope — Wilson’s Warbler — Winter Wren — Wood Duck — Yellow-billed Loon (rare) — Yellow-headed Blackbird (rare) — Yellow-rumped Warbler — Yellow Warbler

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