This year my husband and I had the opportunity to spend two weeks birding in
Alaska between June 4th and June 18th. Although species
numbers are not high (a good life list for an Alaskan is 200), the quality of
the birding coupled with the natural beauty of the area more than makes up for
this.
Areas visited: Anchorage, Homer, Seward, Kenai Fjord,
Tangles Lakes (alpine tundra) and Barrow.
I have just finished a full trip report with details of 'how, when, how
much and what was seen where'. Anyone who would like a copy of the full
report can e-mail me direct.
Judith Hoyle
Species List (143)
Common Loon |
Wandering Tattler |
Horned lark |
Pacific Loon |
Red-necked Phalarope |
Tree Swallow |
Red-throated Loon |
Red Phalarope |
Violet-green Swallow |
Red-necked Grebe |
Short-billed Dowitcher |
Bank Swallow |
Horned Grebe |
Long-billed Dowitcher |
Cliff Swallow |
Sooty Shearwater |
Common Snipe |
Steller’s Jay |
Double-crested Cormorant |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Gray Jay |
Pelagic Cormorant |
Dunlin |
Black-billed Magpie |
Red-faced Cormorant |
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
Northwestern Crow |
Sandhill Crane |
Western Sandpiper |
Common Raven |
Tundra Swan |
Least Sandpiper |
Black-capped Chickadee |
Trumpeter Swan |
Baird’s Sandpiper |
Chestnut-backed Chickadee |
Greater White-fronted Goose |
Pectoral Sandpiper |
Boreal Chickadee |
Canada Goose |
Pomarine Jaeger |
Red-breasted Nuthatch |
Brandt Goose |
Long-tailed Jaeger |
Golden-crowned Kinglet |
Mallard |
Bonaparte’s Gull |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
Gadwall |
Mew Gull |
Swainson’s Thrush |
Green-winged Teal |
Herring Gull |
Gray-cheeked Thrush |
American Wigeon |
Glaucous Gull |
Hermit Thrush |
Northern Pintail |
Thayer’s Gull |
Varied Thrush |
Northern Shoveler |
Glaucous-winged Gull |
American Robin |
Blue-winged Teal |
Black-legged Kittiwake |
American Dipper |
Canvasback |
Arctic Tern |
Cassin’s Vireo (Solitary) |
Redhead |
Aleutian Tern |
Orange-crowned Warbler |
Ring-necked Duck |
Common Murre |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Greater Scaup |
Pigeon Guillemot |
Townsend’s Warbler |
Lesser Scaup |
Marbled Murrelet |
Blackpoll Warbler |
Common Eider |
Kittlitz’s Murrelet |
Yellow Warbler |
King Eider |
Ancient Murrelet |
Wilson’s Warbler |
Spectacled Eider |
Horned Puffin |
Northern Waterthrush |
Steller’s Eider |
Tufted Puffin |
Savannah Sparrow |
Black Scoter |
Bald Eagle |
Song Sparrow |
White-winged Scoter |
Northern Harrier |
American Tree Sparrow |
Surf Scoter |
Red-tailed Hawk |
Dark-eyed Junco |
Harlequin Duck |
Merlin |
White-crowned Sparrow |
Oldsquaw |
Gyr Falcon |
Golden-crowned Sparrow |
Barrow’s Goldeneye |
Spruce Grouse |
Fox Sparrow |
Common Goldeneye |
Rock Ptarmigan |
Smith’s Longspur |
Bufflehead |
Willow Ptarmigan |
Lapland Longspur |
Common Merganser |
Rock Dove |
Snow Bunting |
Red-breasted Merganser |
Short-eared Owl |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Black Oystercatcher |
Snowy Owl |
Rusty Blackbird |
Semipalmated Plover |
Rufous Hummingbird |
Pine Siskin |
Lesser Golden Plover |
Belted Kingfisher |
White-winged Crossbill |
Hudsoniam Godwit |
Downy Woodpecker |
Pine Grosbeak |
Whimbrel |
Three-toed Woodpecker |
Common Redpoll |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
Say’s Phoebe |
Hoary Redpoll |
Spotted Sandpiper |
Alder Flycatcher |
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