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COMMON BIRDS OF THE NORTHWEST ARCTIC KOTZEBUE AREA

With the variety of habitats found in northwestern Alaska, there is a unique opportunity to view over 180 species and subspecies of birds that utilize these habitats. The birds found here are either resident or migratory birds coming to the area to breed, nest, or feed. Many of the migratory birds start to arrive in late-April, with peak spring migration in late-May. Some of these birds migrate from as-far south as South America and Antarctic. By late August, many of the birds are already migrating south.

LOONS, GREBES, CRANES

_____ Common loon

_____ Pacific loon

_____ Red-throated loon

_____ Red-necked grebe

_____ Sandhill crane

WATERFOWL

_____ Tundra swan

_____ Greater white-fronted goose

_____ Snow goose

_____ Canada goose

_____ Green-winged teal

_____ Mallard

_____ Northern pintail

_____ Northern shoveler

_____ American widgeon

_____ Canvasback

_____ Greater scaup

_____ Lesser scaup

_____ Old squaw

_____ Black scoter

_____ Red-breasted merganser

RAPTORS

_____ Northern harrier

_____ Rough-legged Hawk

GROUSE and PTARMIGAN

_____ Willow ptarmigan

SEABIRDS

_____ Common murre

_____ Horned Puffin

SHOREBIRDS

_____ Dunlin

_____ American golden plover

_____ Semipalmated plover

_____ Pacific golden plover

_____ Greater yellowlegs

_____ Lesser yellowlegs

_____ Whimbrel

_____ Bar-Tailed godwit

_____ Hudsonian godwit

_____ Ruddy turnstone

_____ Black turnstone

_____ Red knot

_____ Semipalmated sandpiper

_____ Western sandpiper

_____ Least sandpiper

_____ Pectoral sandpiper

_____ Common snipe

_____ Red-necked phalarope

_____ Red phalarope

_____ Long-billed dowitcher

JAEGERS/GULLS/TERNS

_____ Pomerine jaeger

_____ Parasitic jaegar

_____ Long-tailed jaegar

_____ Bonaparte’s gull

_____ Mew gull

_____ Glaucous gull

_____ Black-legged kittiwake

_____ Arctic tern

OWLS

_____ Short-eared owl

PASSERINES

_____ Tree swallow

_____ Bank swallow

_____ Cliff swallow

_____ Gray Jay

_____ Raven

_____ Black-capped chickadee 

_____ Boreal chickadee

_____ Gray-cheeked thrush

_____ American robin

_____ Yellow wagtail

_____ Northern shrike

_____ Yellow warbler

_____ Blackpoll warbler

_____ Northern water thrush

_____ Wilson’s warbler

_____ American tree sparrow

_____ Savannah sparrow

_____ Fox sparrow

_____ Lincoln’s sparrow

_____ White-crowned sparrow

_____ Lapland longspur

_____ Snow bunting

_____ Rusty blackbird

_____ Common redpoll

_____ Hoary redpoll

_____ Northern weatear
 

 

Modified: February 26, 2008