Seasonal Presence and Relative Frequency of Selected Species
This list summarizes the seasonal presence of selected bird species in Alaska, indicating whether each species occurs year-round, during the breeding season, or during the non-breeding season (winter and migration). Within each seasonal category, species are numbered and ordered from least to most frequently observed in the United States based on eBird frequency data. This ordering reflects how commonly a species has been observed by U.S. birders over time and is used here as a relative priority indicator, not as a measure of local abundance or the likelihood of encountering a species at a specific site or season within Alaska.
Boreal Owl
Kittlitz’s Murrelet
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Gyrfalcon
Crested Auklet
Least Auklet
Rock Ptarmigan
Northern Hawk Owl
Emperor Goose
Red-faced Cormorant
Yellow-billed Loon
Great Gray Owl
Spruce Grouse
Willow Ptarmigan
Dusky Grouse
Rock Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Grouse
King Eider
Black-backed Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Sooty Grouse
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
American Goshawk
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Boreal Chickadee
Surfbird
White-winged Crossbill
Least Grebe
Marbled Murrelet
Pine Grosbeak
American Dipper
Northern Shrike
Canada Jay
Pacific Loon
Black Turnstone
Barrow’s Goldeneye
Common Murre
Harlequin Duck
Snow Bunting
Black Oystercatcher
Pigeon Guillemot
Red-necked Grebe
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Brandt’s Cormorant
Redpoll
Black Scoter
Pelagic Cormorant
Varied Thrush
White-winged Scoter
Short-billed Gull
Red-throated Loon
Common Eider
Long-tailed Duck
Pacific Wren
Glaucous-winged Gull
Surf Scoter
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Black-billed Magpie
Steller’s Jay
Slaty-backed Gull
Steller’s Eider
Arctic Loon
Bluethroat
Arctic Warbler
Aleutian Tern
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Spectacled Eider
Eastern Yellow Wagtail
Red-legged Kittiwake
White Wagtail
Northern Wheatear
Smith’s Longspur
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
Parakeet Auklet
Bar-tailed Godwit
Botteri’s Sparrow
Ancient Murrelet
Thick-billed Murre
Cassin’s Auklet
Horned Puffin
Long-tailed Jaeger
Sabine’s Gull
Pomarine Jaeger
Tufted Puffin
Northern Fulmar
Red Phalarope
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Hudsonian Godwit
Bohemian Waxwing
Wandering Tattler
Parasitic Jaeger
Arctic Tern
Snowy Owl
Glaucous Gull
Pacific Golden-Plover
Rhinoceros Auklet
American Golden-Plover
White-rumped Sandpiper
Lapland Longspur
Baird’s Sandpiper
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Stilt Sandpiper
Rough-legged Hawk
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Tundra Swan
Greater White-fronted Goose
Brant
Pectoral Sandpiper
Rufous Hummingbird
Cackling Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Townsend’s Warbler
Ruddy Turnstone
Snow Goose
Western Flycatcher
Western Tanager
Golden-crowned Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Indigo Bunting
Buller’s Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
Sooty Shearwater
Sanderling
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