Steller's jay is the provincial bird of British Columbia.
This list of birds of British Columbia includes species documented in the Canadian province of British Columbia. As of June 2021, there are 593 species included in this list. Of them, 232 are rare or accidental and 17 have been introduced to British Columbia or elsewhere in North America. Five species have been extirpated and one is extinct. Thirty-nine species have only sight records or are classed as hypothetical (see below).[1][2][3] An additional species of questionable origin is also included here.[4]
This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS).[5] Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that Canadian English spellings are used and the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
The following tags are used to describe some categories of occurrence.
(A) Accidental - a species seldom recorded in British Columbia[1][2][3]
(I) Introduced - a species that has been introduced to British Columbia by the actions of humans, either directly or indirectly
(OU) Origin uncertain - species which might have arrived in British Columbia either from the wild or with human assistance
(SR) Sight record - species with only sight records (no photo, specimen, or other tangible evidence)
(H) Hypothetical - species with unverifiable records but which nevertheless have enough evidence for inclusion on the list
Population status symbols are those of the Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).[6] The symbols apply to the species' worldwide status, not their status solely in Canada. The symbols and their meanings, in increasing order of peril, are:
Conservation status codes
LC = least concern
NT = near threatened
VU = vulnerable
EN = endangered
CR = critically endangered
EW = extinct in the wild
EX = extinct
^ abFenneman, Jamie and Rick Toochin. Checklist of the Birds of British Columbia. July 2014 and February 2017. In: Klinkenberg, Brian. (Editor) 2017. E-Fauna BC: Electronic Atlas of the Fauna of British Columbia [www.efauna.bc.ca]. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
^ abLepage, Denis (June 1, 2021). "Checklist of birds of British Columbia". Avibase bird checklists of the world. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
^ abToochin, Rick; Fenneman, Jamie; Levesque, Paul; Cecile, Don (July 15, 2018). "British Columbia Rare Bird List: Casual and Accidental Records 5th Edition" (PDF). Retrieved July 7, 2020.
^Szabo, Ildiko, Kimberly Walters, James Rourke, and Darren E. Irwin. First record of house swift (Apus nipalensis) in the Americas. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129(2):411-416, 2017.
^"Check-list of North and Middle American Birds". American Ornithological Society. June 29, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
^IUCN 2019. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2019-2. http://www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on July 30, 2019.
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