Help Identify These Shoreline Birds for a Desperate Student - West Coast of Canada (1 Viewer)

Hi I'm new here. I'm a student in an environmental management course and I need to discuss, along with many other things, the wildlife I observed in a local park.

This park is Shoreline Park in Port Moody, BC, Canada:
http://maps.google.ca/maps/mm?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=49.281467,-122.835466&spn=0.001297,0.004506&t=h&z=19

The water you see is the very end of a fairly long inlet connected to the Pacific Ocean, right near Vancouver. Most of the birds hung out in the trees or right on the water's edge on the tidal flats where I photographed them.

Some more helpful info:
All photos were taken between late September and late October.
Bird list for the park:
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wld/documents/wldviewing/birdlistshoreline.pdf


I think these are very common species and probably easy to identify, I just don't really know anything at all about birds.

The ones I observed could be broken into a couple different groups:
-small black ones
-larger black ones
-large white/light grey
-small and grey
-geese
-ducks

I think the smaller black ones are crows.

So, in short, can you guys tell me what birds you see in these photos? I apologize for the quality and composition, they're mostly the result of me zooming in on much larger photos.

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I realize the photos are quite small, Photobucket wouldn't let me upload them at the moment so I'm just using Facebook. I'll upload larger ones of some of them either tonight or tomorrow, feel free to request which ones.


Thanks a million! I'll post nice photography of mine instead of this crap as a reward should you guys help me!

Welcome to Birdforum!
I am extremely rusty on W. Coast birds and wouldn't like to try with these photos. I'm not saying that none of them can be identified - I'm sure that someone will know what sort of crows they are - but I think you'll need much clearer photos to have reliable IDs of most of those birds. It's clearly an attractive area.
Ken

I think most of the ducks in the fist few photos are Green Winged Teals but really can't tell.

I would agree with Johnny that alot of the ducks are Green Winged Teal but most of the pics are to small & IMO are unidentifiable. Cheers, P.

You have a probable Bonapartes Gull in 6... more gulls in 13. The Corvids should be identifiable by a local expert - presumably American or North Western Crow. The birds in 14 may be Geese and there are what seem to be Canada Geese in 15

Sorry, just recognize the Canada Geese in #15. Others are not ID for me.

The crows are all Nortwest Crows in Port Moody. The others are too small for me.

Alan

You don't need to invest in photography materials, but a field guide would help. You can pick up old editions of National Geographic for 10 dollars or less at Barnes and Noble bargain sections.

The ducks and crows are fairly easy, should take a day or two of your effort. But all you have to work with with the crows is size and habitat. Find some regular crows, compare. Make a good guess.