Birds of Alberta
Transient (migrate through Alberta):
Order Anseriformes
Waterfowl (Family Anatidae)
- Black Scoter Duck
- Oldsquaw Duck
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Snow Goose
- Ross's Goose
- Greater Scaup
- Tundra Swan
- Eurasian Wigeon
Order Charadriiformes
Plovers (Family Charadriidae)
- American Golden-Plover
- Black-bellied Plover
- Semipalmated Plover
Sandpipers (Family Scolopacidae)
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Dunlin
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Sanderling
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Whimbrel
Gulls (Family Laridae)
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Mew Gull
- Thayer's Gull
- Glaucous Gull
- Sabine's Gull
- Arctic Tern
Order Passeriformes
(The most numerous of all the orders of birds)
Sparrows (Family Emberizidae)
- Lapland Longspur
- Smith's Longspur
- Harris's Sparrow
