| BIRD LISTS Flock
to Alaska Maritime Refuge’s birding hot spots just
as the seabirds, endemics, and birds from Asia do. Seabirds –
nearly 40 million of them, more than 30 species in their finest breeding plumages
including tufted and horned puffins, least and crested auklets – and enough
visiting shearwaters to darken the waters near the Barren Islands or in Unimak
Pass. Endemics – birds that nest only here - including whiskered
auklets, red-legged kittiwakes, and McKay’s buntings. Asiatics
– Spring, fall, and storms in summer bring sightings of birds blown off course
or whose migration along Asia’s west coast takes them over the refuge. Online
bird lists for areas in the Alaska Maritime Refuge Birds
of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Birds of the Adak
Island, Aleutian Islands unit of the Alaska Maritime Refuge Birds
of Attu Birds
of the Alaska
Peninsula - Cape Douglas to Port Moller Birders Guide to Kachemak
Bay(Homer, Alaska) Birds of Kodiak
Island Archipelago Birds of Nome,
Alaska Birds of Northwest
Alaska(relates to Chamisso, Cape Thompson, Cape Lisburne) Birds
of Seward
(Alaska) area (LINK usgs) Wings
Over Alaska is a new program that rewards birdwatching. Birders who identify
50, 125, 200, or 275 species in Alaska receive certificates from the Alaska Department
of Fish and Game. |