Wings Over Alaska Program Checklist

Northern Shoveler c Eared Grebe a Tricolored Heron OYSTERCATCHERS Pectoral Sandpiper a Sooty Tern Northern Pintail Western Grebe c Cattle Egret a Eurasian Oystercatcher Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Aleutian Tern c Garganey [Clark's Grebe] c Chinese Pond-Heron Black Oystercatcher a Purple Sandpiper r Caspian Tern c Baikal Teal ALBATROSSES a Green Heron STILTS, AVOCETS Rock Sandpiper c Black Tern Green-winged Teal a Shy Albatross c Black-crowned Night-Heron c Black-winged Stilt Dunlin c White-winged Tern Canvasback Laysan Albatross NEW WORLD VULTURES c American Avocet c Curlew Sandpiper c Common Tern Redhead Black-footed Albatross c Turkey Vulture SANDPIPERS, PHALAROPES, ALLIES Stilt Sandpiper Arctic Tern c Common Pochard r Short-tailed Albatross OSPREYS c Terek Sandpiper c Spoon-billed Sandpiper JAEGERS Ring-necked Duck SHEARWATER, PETRELS Osprey c Broad-billed Sandpiper c South Polar Skua Wings Over Alaska r Common Sandpiper r Tufted Duck Northern Fulmar HAWKS, EAGLES, ALLIES Spotted Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Pomarine Jaeger Program Checklist Greater Scaup a Providence Petrel Bald Eagle c Green Sandpiper r Ruff Parasitic Jaeger for Lesser Scaup Mottled Petrel c White-tailed Eagle Solitary Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-tailed Jaeger Steller's Eider a Cook's Petrel c Steller's Sea-Eagle Gray-tailed Tattler Long-billed Dowitcher AUKS, MURRES, PUFFINS (your name) Spectacled Eider r Pink-footed Shearwater Northern Harrier Wandering Tattler c Jack Snipe r Dovekie King Eider [Flesh-footed Shearwater] [Chinese Sparrowhawk] c Spotted Redshank Wilson’s Snipe Common Murre No. of species______Common Eider c Great Shearwater Sharp-shinned Hawk Greater Yellowlegs Common Snipe Thick-billed Murre Harlequin Duck r Buller's Shearwater [Cooper's Hawk] r Common Greenshank c Pin-tailed Snipe Black Guillemot Submit a copy of this Surf Scoter Sooty Shearwater Northern Goshawk c Willet a Solitary Snipe Pigeon Guillemot checklist with your White-winged Scoter Short-tailed Shearwater r Swainson's Hawk Lesser Yellowlegs r Wilson's Phalarope c Long-billed Murrelet certificate application. Black Scoter c Manx Shearwater Red-tailed Hawk c Marsh Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Marbled Murrelet Checklists will not be Long-tailed Duck [Little Shearwater] [Common Buzzard] Wood Sandpiper Red Phalarope Kittlitz's Murrelet Ancient Murrelet returned. Bufflehead STORM-PETRELS Rough-legged Hawk Upland Sandpiper PRATINCOLES Common Goldeneye Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Cassin's Auklet Golden Eagle a Little Curlew a Oriental Pratincole Parakeet Auklet DUCKS, GEESE, SWANS Barrow's Goldeneye Leach's Storm-Petrel RAILS, COOTS ! Eskimo Curlew GULLS, TERNS Least Auklet c Taiga Bean-Goose r Smew [Swinhoe’s Storm-Petrel] [Yellow Rail] Whimbrel Black-legged Kittiwake Whiskered Auklet c Tundra Bean-Goose Hooded Merganser FRIGATEBIRDS, GANNETS c Virginia Rail Bristle-thighed Curlew Red-legged Kittiwake Common Merganser a Magnificent Frigatebird Crested Auklet Greater White-fronted Goose [Baillon's Crake] c Far Eastern Curlew Ivory Gull Red-breasted Merganser Rhinoceros Auklet a Lesser White-fronted Goose [Northern Gannet] r Sora [Long-billed Curlew] Sabine's Gull CORMORANTS Horned Puffin Emperor Goose r Ruddy Duck a Common Moorhen c Black-tailed Godwit Bonaparte's Gull r Brandt's Cormorant Snow Goose GROUSE a Eurasian Coot Hudsonian Godwit r Black-headed Gull Tufted Puffin Double-crested Cormorant c Ross's Goose Ruffed Grouse r American Coot Bar-tailed Godwit c Little Gull PIGEONS, DOVES Red-faced Cormorant Brant Spruce Grouse CRANES Marbled Godwit Ross's Gull r Band-tailed Pigeon Pelagic Cormorant Cackling Goose Willow Ptarmigan Sandhill Crane Ruddy Turnstone c Laughing Gull c Oriental Turtle-Dove PELICANS Canada Goose Rock Ptarmigan a Common Crane Black Turnstone r Franklin's Gull r Eurasian Collared-Dove a American White Pelican Trumpeter Swan White-tailed Ptarmigan LAPWINGS, PLOVERS Surfbird c Black-tailed Gull a White-winged Dove c Brown Pelican Tundra Swan Sooty Grouse a Northern Lapwing c Great Knot c Heermann's Gull r Mourning Dove HERONS, BITTERNS, ALLIES Mew Gull CUCKOOS r Whooper Swan Sharp-tailed Grouse Black-bellied Plover Red Knot [Eurasian Bittern] r Ring-billed Gull c Common Cuckoo r Wood Duck LOONS a European Golden-Plover Sanderling c American Bittern c Western Gull c Oriental Cuckoo Gadwall Red-throated Loon American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Sandpiper a Yellow Bittern c Yellow-billed Cuckoo c Falcated Duck r Arctic Loon Pacific Golden-Plover Western Sandpiper California Gull Great Blue Heron TYPICAL OWLS Eurasian Wigeon Pacific Loon r Lesser Sand-Plover Red-necked Stint Herring Gull c Gray Heron a Oriental Scops-Owl American Wigeon Common Loon r Common Ringed Plover c Little Stint Iceland Gull (incl. Thayer’s) c Great Egret c Lesser Black-backed Gull c American Black Duck Yellow-billed Loon Semipalmated Plover c Temminck's Stint r Western Screech-Owl a Intermediate Egret Slaty-backed Gull Mallard GREBES c Little Ringed Plover r Long-toed Stint Great Horned Owl a Chinese Egret Glaucous-winged Gull c Eastern Spot-billed Duck r Pied-billed Grebe Killdeer Least Sandpiper Snowy Owl a Little Egret Blue-winged Teal Horned Grebe c Eurasian Dotterel r White-rumped Sandpiper Glaucous Gull Northern Hawk Owl [Snowy Egret] r Cinnamon Teal Red-necked Grebe Baird's Sandpiper a Great Black-backed Gull r Northern Pygmy-Owl

Local checklists that include seasonal abundance for a particular area will be most useful as field checklists. 03/13 Barred Owl TYRANT FLYCATCHERS c Common House-Martin [Mugimaki Flycatcher] r Tennessee Warbler a Yellow-throated Bunting a – accidental Great Gray Owl Olive-sided Flycatcher CHICKADEES c Taiga Flycatcher Orange-crowned Warbler c Yellow-breasted Bunting c – casual c Long-eared Owl Western Wood-Pewee Black-capped Chickadee Northern Wheatear c Nashville Warbler c Gray Bunting r – rare Short-eared Owl r Yellow-bellied Flycatcher c Mountain Chickadee c Stonechat MacGillivray's Warbler c Pallas's Bunting ! – last documented in Boreal Owl Alder Flycatcher Chestnut-backed Chickadee THRUSHES c Mourning Warbler c Reed Bunting Alaska in 1886 Northern Saw-whet Owl c Willow Flycatcher Boreal Chickadee r Mountain Bluebird [Kentucky Warbler] CARDINALS, ALLIES [ ] – unsubstantiated, a Brown Hawk-Owl c Least Flycatcher r Gray-headed Chickadee Townsend's Solitaire Common Yellowthroat a Scarlet Tanager Alaska photo needed Hammond's Flycatcher [Great Tit] a Veery American Redstart Western Tanager GOATSUCKERS a Lesser Nighthawk c Dusky Flycatcher NUTHATCHES Gray-cheeked Thrush c Cape May Warbler c Rose-breasted Grosbeak RARE BIRD ALERTS: r Common Nighthawk Pacific-slope Flycatcher Red-breasted Nuthatch Swainson's Thrush [Northern Parula] r Black-headed Grosbeak Report birds listed for a Eastern Whip-poor-will a Black Phoebe CREEPERS Hermit Thrush c Magnolia Warbler a Blue Grosbeak Alaska as (a) accidental, (c) c Eastern Phoebe Brown Creeper r Eyebrowed Thrush [Bay-breasted Warbler] c Lazuli Bunting a Gray Nightjar casual, or [unsubstantiated] Say's Phoebe WRENS c Dusky Thrush Yellow Warbler c Indigo Bunting SWIFTS as soon as possible to a Ash-throated Flycatcher Pacific Wren c Fieldfare c Chestnut-sided Warbler a Dickcissel Black Swift experienced local birders or a Great Crested Flycatcher Blackpoll Warbler BLACKBIRDS a Chimney Swift a Marsh Wren a Redwing 465-5157 (leave details and c Tropical Kingbird a Black-throated Blue Warbler c Bobolink Vaux's Swift DIPPERS American Robin contact information). c White-throated Needletail c Western Kingbird American Dipper Varied Thrush c Palm Warbler Red-winged Blackbird a Common Swift c Eastern Kingbird KINGLETS MOCKINGBIRDS,THRASHERS Yellow-rumped Warbler c Western Meadowlark Report locally accidental or c Fork-tailed Swift c Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Golden-crowned Kinglet c Gray Catbird a Prairie Warbler c Yellow-headed Blackbird casual species to contacts HUMMINGBIRDS SHRIKES Ruby-crowned Kinglet c Northern Mockingbird [Blk.-throated Gray Warbler] Rusty Blackbird listed on local checklists. c Ruby-throated Hummingbird c Brown Shrike LEAF WARBLERS c Brown Thrasher Townsend's Warbler c Brewer's Blackbird r Anna's Hummingbird Northern Shrike c Willow Warbler STARLINGS [Hermit Warbler] c Common Grackle accidental “an exceptional c Costa's Hummingbird VIREOS c Wood Warbler European Starling a Blk.-throated Green Warbler r Brown-headed Cowbird occurrence that might not Rufous Hummingbird r Cassin's Vireo [Chiffchaff] ACCENTORS a Canada Warbler a Orchard Oriole be repeated again for [Calliope Hummingbird] a Blue-headed Vireo r Dusky Warbler c Siberian Accentor Wilson's Warbler c Bullock's Oriole decades; usually fewer than HOOPOES Warbling Vireo a Pallas’s Leaf-Warbler WAGTAILS, PIPITS EMBERIZIDS FRINGILLINE, CARD.FINCHES five records.” (West) a Eurasian Hoopoe c Philadelphia Vireo c Yellow-browed Warbler Eastern Yellow Wagtail c Spotted Towhee Brambling KINGFISHERS c Red-eyed Vireo Arctic Warbler c Gray Wagtail American Tree Sparrow a Asian Rosy-Finch casual “less than annually, Belted Kingfisher CROWS, JAYS SYLVIID WARBLERS r White Wagtail Chipping Sparrow Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch but there tends to be a WOODPECKERS Gray Jay a Lesser Whitethroat c Tree Pipit c Clay-colored Sparrow Pine Grosbeak pattern over time at the a Eurasian Wryneck Steller's Jay REED WARBLERS c Olive-backed Pipit r Brewer's Sparrow c Eurasian Bullfinch right time of year in c Yellow-bellied Sapsucker c Clark's Nutcracker a Sedge Warbler c Pechora Pipit a Vesper Sparrow c Common Rosefinch appropriate habitat.” (West) Red-breasted Sapsucker Black-billed Magpie GRASSBIRDS Red-throated Pipit c Lark Sparrow r Purple Finch The Wings Over Alaska c Great Spotted Woodpecker r American Crow c Midd.'s Grasshopper-Warbler American Pipit Savannah Sparrow c Cassin's Finch Northwestern Crow Fox Sparrow c House Finch program checklist is updated Downy Woodpecker c Lanceolated Warbler WAXWINGS from Checklist of Alaska Birds, Common Raven Song Sparrow Red Crossbill Hairy Woodpecker [Blyth’s Reed Warbler] Bohemian Waxwing 19th Edition-2013, Gibson, Am. Three-toed Woodpecker LARKS OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS, ALLIES Cedar Waxwing Lincoln's Sparrow White-winged Crossbill DeCicco, Gill, Heinl, Lang, Black-backed Woodpecker r Sky Lark c Gray-streaked Flycatcher LONGSPURS, SNOW BUNTINGS r Swamp Sparrow Common Redpoll Tobish, and Withrow Northern Flicker Horned Lark a Asian Brown Flycatcher Lapland Longspur r White-throated Sparrow Hoary Redpoll © University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks. [Pileated Woodpecker] SWALLOWS a Spotted Flycatcher [Chestnut-collared Longspur} c Harris's Sparrow a Eurasian Siskin c Purple Martin White-crowned Sparrow Pine Siskin FALCONS c Dark-sided Flycatcher Smith's Longspur Wings Over Alaska is Tree Swallow Golden-crowned Sparrow c American Goldfinch c Eurasian Kestrel c Rufous-tailed Robin Snow Bunting sponsored by: American Kestrel Violet-green Swallow r Siberian Rubythroat McKay's Bunting Dark-eyed Junco c Oriental Greenfinch Merlin r N. Rough-winged Swallow Bluethroat WOOD-WARBLERS c Pine Bunting c Evening Grosbeak Bank Swallow a Yellow-browed Bunting c Eurasian Hobby a Siberian Blue Robin c Ovenbird c Hawfinch Cliff Swallow c Little Bunting Gyrfalcon c Red-flanked Bluetail Northern Waterthrush OLD WORLD SPARROWS Barn Swallow r Rustic Bunting r House Sparrow Peregrine Falcon a Narcissus Flycatcher c Black-and-white Warbler

Wings Over Alaska is a program of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game -- www.birding.alaska.gov