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Nw Territory

Gyrfalcon - Falco rusticolus © Paul Gale http://www.birdfoto.fsnet.co.uk/

You will notice that there is no introduction to this section yet.

I would like to fill this gap with an introduction from a local birder [or someone who is a frequent visitor] for every on of the geographical pages. The many thousands of birders now regularly using these pages prefer to read something written by someone who can see the place from an insider's point of view. They know the best spots, not just the ones that first time overseas visitors usually visit or that are on the normal birding trip itineraries.

Each introduction carries the e-mail address of the contributor so that birders can get in touch with them if, for example, they are planning a trip [unless the contributor is unable to do this].

Please get in touch if you feel you can contribute an introduction to this page - you don't have to be an expert; I'm not!

numbers

Number of bird species:341
Provincial Bird - Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

1995 [June] - John MacArthur - Banks Island

http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/maybank/Canada/NWT-06-95.htm
A friend and I took a trip to Banks Island, in the archipelago of islands in the extreme north of Canada (72N,125W). You get there by driving (in our case) or flying to Inuvik, near the mouth of the Mackenzie River, then fly (scheduled flight) to Sacks Harbour on Banks Island. We racked up the following list of birds. An asterisk (*) signifies definite breeding evidence.

1998 [June] - Ruud and Kitty Kampf

http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/maybank/Canada/Canada-North-88.htm
During our summer holidays in 1988, we used a Canadian Airlines air-pass to visit a variety of sites in western and northern Canada. It was an interesting trip, in a spectacular country, with wonderful weather, and plenty of mosquitos. We are pleased to be able to share our experiences with the readers of Canadian Birding...

2001 [June] - Paul Jones

http://maybank.tripod.com/Canada/Yukon-06-2001.htm
The following is an account of a two week trip to the Yukon, north-eastern British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. During the first week (June 9 to June 14) I intensively birded the southern Yukon, north-eastern British Columbia and south-western Northwest Territories. At the beginning of the second week I met family members in Whitehorse. From June 15 to June 24 we traveled at a slower pace north to Inuvik and back to Whitehorse...

tour operators

Birding Pal

http://birdingpal.org/northw.htm
Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

Nahanni River Tours

http://www.nahanni.com/
For nearly two decades Neil Hartling and Barry Beales of Nahanni River Adventures and Whitewolf Expeditions have fine tuned the most extensive offerings of the best of the north. In 1997 the two companies joined together to capitalise on the strengths of each outfit. The resulting selection has been referred to as the life list of northern rivers - all must do`s.

places to stay

Inns North

http://www.innsnorth.com/html/inns-cur-birds.htm
A gazateer of communities, wildlife and places to stay in the NWT and Nunavut...

Birding the Deh Cho

http://www.spruceroots.org/March99/DehCho.html
The Deh Cho Connection is a circle route. It begins at Dawson Creek, BC, runs north through Fort Liard, east across the Northwest Territories and south into Alberta...

Birds of Aulavik National Park

http://www.taiga.net/reports/aulavikbirds/
This research inventoried the bird populations of Aulavik National Park, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. In total, 43 bird species were observed in Aulavik during the two field seasons of this study, representing 61 percent of the total number of documented bird species observed on Banks Island. Twenty-one new breeding records were documented, and the known breeding distribution of the semipalmated plover, purple sandpiper and buff-breasted sandpiper were extended. At this point, 75 percent of the bird species (32 out of 43 species) observed in the park are now known to breed there, underscoring the importance of Aulavik as a protected area where a diversity of tundra-adapted birds breed and raise offspring...