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Bird List for Nome, Alaska Yellow Warbler □ Popular Birding Areas □ Yellow-rumped Warbler □ Blackpoll Warbler BIRD LIST □ Northern Waterthrush East End of Town Wilson’s Warbler for Nome, Alaska □ Bypass Road □ American Tree Sparrow □ Savannah Sparrow Beaches East of Nome □ Fox Sparrow Safety Sound □ Lincoln’s Sparrow Grand Central Bridge □ White-crowned Sparrow □ Golden-crowned Sparrow Swan Lake (Kougarok Rd.) □ Dark-eyed Junco Penny River Bridge □ Lapland Longspur □ Snow Bunting McKay’s Bunting □ Please stop by the □ Rusty Blackbird Nome Visitors Center □ Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch to record your sightings! □ Pine Grosbeak □ White-winged Crossbill This information is very helpful to other birders! □ Common Redpoll □ Hoary Redpoll □ __________________________ □ __________________________ __________________________ □ Birding checklist for_______________________ □ __________________________ □ __________________________ Nome Convention & Visitors Bureau □ __________________________ PO Box 240, 301 Front Street □ __________________________ Nome, AK 99762 □ __________________________ □ __________________________ (907) 443-6555 e-mail: [email protected] This checklist is not a comprehensive list of all This brochure is provided by the bird species that have been recorded in Nome. www.visitnomealaska.org Nome Convention & Visitors Bureau and Alaska Department of Fish and Game □ White-fronted Goose □ Arctic Loon □ Surfbird □ Great Horned Owl □ Emperor Goose □ Pacific Loon □ Red Knot □ Snowy Owl □ Snow Goose □ Common Loon □ Semipalmated Sandpiper □ Northern Hawk Owl □ Brant □ Yellow-billed Loon □ Western Sandpiper □ Short-eared Owl □ Cackling Goose □ Red-necked Grebe □ Red-necked Stint □ Belted Kingfisher □ Canada Goose □ Pelagic Cormorant □ Least Sandpiper □ Downy Woodpecker □ Tundra Swan □ Osprey □ Baird’s Sandpiper □ Western Wood-Pewee □ Gadwall □ Bald Eagle □ Pectoral Sandpiper □ Alder Flycatcher □ Eurasian Wigeon □ Northern Harrier □ Dunlin □ Say’s Phoebe □ American Wigeon □ Northern Goshawk □ Long-billed Dowitcher □ Northern Shrike □ Mallard □ Rough-legged Hawk □ Wilson’s Snipe □ Gray Jay □ Northern Shoveler □ Golden Eagle □ Red-necked Phalarope □ Common Raven □ Northern Pintail □ Merlin □ Red Phalarope □ Horned Lark □ Green-winged Teal □ Gyrfalcon □ Black-legged Kittiwake □ Tree Swallow □ Canvasback □ Peregrine Falcon □ Sabine’s Gull □ Bank Swallow □ Greater Scaup □ Sandhill Crane □ Mew Gull □ Cliff Swallow □ Lesser Scaup □ Black-bellied Plover □ Herring Gull/Vega Gull □ Black-capped Chickadee □ Steller’s Eider □ American Golden-Plover □ Slaty-backed Gull □ Boreal Chickadee □ Spectacled Eider □ Pacific Golden-Plover □ Glaucous-winged Gull □ American Dipper □ King Eider □ Lesser Sand-Plover □ Glaucous Gull □ Ruby-crowned Kinglet □ Common Eider □ Semipalmated Plover □ Aleutian Tern □ Arctic Warbler □ Harlequin Duck □ Eurasian Dotterel □ Arctic Tern □ Bluethroat □ Surf Scoter □ Spotted Sandpiper □ Pomarine Jaeger □ Northern Wheatear □ White-winged Scoter □ Solitary Sandpiper □ Parasitic Jaeger □ Gray-cheeked Thrush □ Black Scoter □ Gray-tailed Tattler □ Long-tailed Jaeger □ American Robin □ Long-tailed Duck □ Wandering Tattler □ Common Murre □ Varied Thrush □ Common Merganser □ Lesser Yellowlegs □ Thick-billed Murre □ Eastern Yellow Wagtail □ Red-breasted Merganser □ Whimbrel □ Black Guillemot □ White Wagtail □ Spruce Grouse □ Bristle-thighed Curlew □ Pigeon Guillemot □ Red-throated Pipit □ Willow Ptarmigan □ Bar-tailed Godwit □ Kittlitz’s Murrelet □ American Pipit □ Rock Ptarmigan □ Ruddy Turnstone □ Horned Puffin □ Bohemian Waxwing □ Red-throated Loon □ Black Turnstone □ Tufted Puffin □ Orange-crowned Warbler .
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