Note: This checklist includes all bird species that have ever been reported in the Calgary region. For a shorter checklist that includes the most common bird species seen within the city, see the City of Calgary Checklist.
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck |
| Greater White-fronted Goose |
| Snow Goose |
| Ross’s Goose |
| Cackling Goose |
| Canada Goose |
| Brant |
| Trumpeter Swan |
| Tundra Swan |
| Wood Duck |
| Gadwall |
| Eurasian Wigeon |
| American Wigeon |
| American Black Duck |
| Mallard |
| Blue-winged Teal |
| Cinnamon Teal |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Northern Pintail |
| Garganey |
| Green-winged Teal |
| Canvasback |
| Redhead |
| Ring-necked Duck |
| Tufted Duck |
| Greater Scaup |
| Lesser Scaup |
| King Eider |
| Harlequin Duck |
| Surf Scoter |
| White-winged Scoter |
| Black Scoter |
| Long-tailed Duck |
| Bufflehead |
| Common Goldeneye |
| Barrow’s Goldeneye |
| Hooded Merganser |
| Common Merganser |
| Red-breasted Merganser |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Gray Partridge |
| Ring-necked Pheasant |
| Ruffed Grouse |
| Spruce Grouse |
| White-tailed Ptarmigan |
| Blue Grouse |
| Sharp-tailed Grouse |
| Wild Turkey |
| Red-throated Loon |
| Pacific Loon |
| Common Loon |
| Yellow-billed Loon |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| Horned Grebe |
| Red-necked Grebe |
| Eared Grebe |
| Western Grebe |
| Clark’s Grebe |
| American White Pelican |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| American Bittern |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Snowy Egret |
| Cattle Egret |
| Green Heron |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
| White-faced Ibis |
| Turkey Vulture |
| Osprey |
| Bald Eagle |
| Northern Harrier |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| Cooper’s Hawk |
| Northern Goshawk |
| Broad-winged Hawk |
| Swainson’s Hawk |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| Ferruginous Hawk |
| Rough-legged Hawk |
| Golden Eagle |
| American Kestrel |
| Merlin |
| Gyrfalcon |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Prairie Falcon |
| Yellow Rail |
| Virginia Rail |
| Sora |
| American Coot |
| Sandhill Crane |
| Whooping Crane |
| Black-bellied Plover |
| American Golden-Plover |
| Pacific Golden-Plover |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Piping Plover |
| Killdeer |
| Black-necked Stilt |
| American Avocet |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Spotted Redshank |
| Solitary Sandpiper |
| Willet |
| Wandering Tattler |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| Upland Sandpiper |
| Whimbrel |
| Long-billed Curlew |
| Hudsonian Godwit |
| Marbled Godwit |
| Ruddy Turnstone |
| Black Turnstone |
| Red Knot |
| Sanderling |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| Western Sandpiper |
| Red-necked Stint |
| Least Sandpiper |
| White-rumped Sandpiper |
| Baird’s Sandpiper |
| Pectoral Sandpiper |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
| Dunlin |
| Curlew Sandpiper |
| Stilt Sandpiper |
| Spoonbill Sandpiper |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
| Ruff |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Long-billed Dowitcher |
| Wilson’s Snipe |
| Wilson’s Phalarope |
| Red-necked Phalarope |
| Red Phalarope |
| Pomarine Jaeger |
| Parasitic Jaeger |
| Long-tailed Jaeger |
| Franklin’s Gull |
| Little Gull |
| Bonaparte’s Gull |
| Mew Gull |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| California Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Thayer’s Gull |
| Iceland Gull |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| Slaty-backed Gull |
| Glaucous-winged Gull |
| Glaucous Gull |
| Sabine’s Gull |
| Black-legged Kittiwake |
| Caspian Tern |
| Common Tern |
| Arctic Tern |
| Forster’s Tern |
| Black Tern |
| Ancient Murrelet |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Band-tailed Pigeon |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove |
| Mourning Dove |
| Black-billed Cuckoo |
| Barn Owl |
| Great Horned Owl |
| Snowy Owl |
| Northern Hawk Owl |
| Northern Pygmy-Owl |
| Burrowing Owl |
| Barred Owl |
| Great Gray Owl |
| Long-eared Owl |
| Short-eared Owl |
| Boreal Owl |
| Northern Saw-whet Owl |
| Common Nighthawk |
| Common Poorwill |
| Black Swift |
| Vaux’s Swift |
| White-throated Swift |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Black-chinned Hummingbird |
| Anna’s Hummingbird |
| Calliope Hummingbird |
| Rufous Hummingbird |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Lewis’s Woodpecker |
| Red-headed Woodpecker |
| Williamson’s Sapsucker |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
| Red-naped Sapsucker |
| Red-breasted Sapsucker |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| American Three-toed Woodpecker |
| Black-backed Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Pileated Woodpecker |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher |
| Western Wood-Pewee |
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
| Alder Flycatcher |
| Willow Flycatcher |
| Least Flycatcher |
| Hammond’s Flycatcher |
| Gray Flycatcher |
| Dusky Flycatcher |
| “Western Flycatcher” |
| Eastern Phoebe |
| Say’s Phoebe |
| Great Crested Flycatcher |
| Western Kingbird |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
| Loggerhead Shrike |
| Northern Shrike |
| Yellow-throated Vireo |
| Cassin’s Vireo |
| Blue-headed Vireo |
| Warbling Vireo |
| Philadelphia Vireo |
| Red-eyed Vireo |
| Gray Jay |
| Steller’s Jay |
| Blue Jay |
| Clark’s Nutcracker |
| Black-billed Magpie |
| American Crow |
| Common Raven |
| Horned Lark |
| Purple Martin |
| Tree Swallow |
| Violet-green Swallow |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Bank Swallow |
| Cliff Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Black-capped Chickadee |
| Mountain Chickadee |
| Boreal Chickadee |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Brown Creeper |
| Rock Wren |
| House Wren |
| Winter Wren |
| Sedge Wren |
| Marsh Wren |
| American Dipper |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| Northern Wheatear |
| Eastern Bluebird |
| Western Bluebird |
| Mountain Bluebird |
| Townsend’s Solitaire |
| Veery |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush |
| Swainson’s Thrush |
| Hermit Thrush |
| American Robin |
| Varied Thrush |
| Gray Catbird |
| Northern Mockingbird |
| Sage Thrasher |
| Brown Thrasher |
| European Starling |
| Siberian Accentor |
| American Pipit |
| Sprague’s Pipit |
| Bohemian Waxwing |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Blue-winged Warbler |
| Tennessee Warbler |
| Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Nashville Warbler |
| Northern Parula |
| Yellow Warbler |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler |
| Magnolia Warbler |
| Cape May Warbler |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Black-throated Gray Warbler |
| Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Townsend’s Warbler |
| Blackburnian Warbler |
| Pine Warbler |
| Palm Warbler |
| Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Blackpoll Warbler |
| Black-and-white Warbler |
| American Redstart |
| Ovenbird |
| Northern Waterthrush |
| Kentucky Warbler |
| Connecticut Warbler |
| Mourning Warbler |
| MacGillivray’s Warbler |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Hooded Warbler |
| Wilson’s Warbler |
| Canada Warbler |
| Yellow-breasted Chat |
| Summer Tanager |
| Scarlet Tanager |
| Western Tanager |
| Green-tailed Towhee |
| Spotted Towhee |
| American Tree Sparrow |
| Chipping Sparrow |
| Clay-colored Sparrow |
| Brewer’s Sparrow |
| Field Sparrow |
| Vesper Sparrow |
| Lark Sparrow |
| Lark Bunting |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| Grasshopper Sparrow |
| Baird’s Sparrow |
| Le Conte’s Sparrow |
| Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow |
| Fox Sparrow |
| Song Sparrow |
| Lincoln’s Sparrow |
| Swamp Sparrow |
| White-throated Sparrow |
| Harris’s Sparrow |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow |
| Dark-eyed Junco |
| McCown’s Longspur |
| Lapland Longspur |
| Smith’s Longspur |
| Chestnut-collared Longspur |
| Snow Bunting |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| Black-headed Grosbeak |
| Lazuli Bunting |
| Indigo Bunting |
| Bobolink |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Western Meadowlark |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird |
| Rusty Blackbird |
| Brewer’s Blackbird |
| Common Grackle |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Bullock’s Oriole |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch |
| Pine Grosbeak |
| Purple Finch |
| Cassin’s Finch |
| House Finch |
| Red Crossbill |
| White-winged Crossbill |
| Common Redpoll |
| Hoary Redpoll |
| Pine Siskin |
| American Goldfinch |
| Evening Grosbeak |
| House Sparrow |