Skagway Bird Checklist

Skagway Alaska Bird Checklist  (revised 2010)

Below is a listing of birds recorded in the Skagway, Alaska vicinity.  

An easy-to-print PDF Skagway checklist, which includes additional information on seasonal distributions, breeding, local trails, etc. , can  be downloaded  here: Skagway Bird Checklist PDF

Recent additions (these are not shown in the PDF):

House Sparrow - Cameron Eckert - November 2022

Brambling - Debbie Ackerman - November 2022

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - C. E. Furbish - July 2022

Evening Grosbeak - Bea Lingle - November 2021

Red-necked Phalarope - Boris Dobrowolsky & Mike Konlser - August 2021

Ovenbird - Larry Hooge - August 2018 (second record for southeast Alaska)

Tufted Puffin - Shelby Surdyk - July 2017

Ivory Gull - Joanne and Andrew Beierly - February 2017 (second record, first record from 7 Nov 1975 -contributed by Steve Heinl)

Kumlien's Iceland Gull - Cameron Eckert - February 2017

Black Turnstone - Shelby Surdyk and Stacie Evans - August 2016

Black-backed Woodpecker - Mike Konsler - July 2013 (first record for Skagway)   Mary Whitley - April 2015 (second record for Skagway)

California Gull - Paul E. Lehman - July 2013

Great Gray Owl - Jamie Welfelt - June 2013

Western Kingbird - Nola Lamken - May 2013 (second record, first record from 9 June 1978 - University of Alaska Museum)

Rough-legged Hawk - John McDermott - April 2013

Blue Grosbeak - Joanne and Andrew Beierly - July 2012

Caspian Tern - Jaime Welfelt - June 2012

Ruffed Grouse - Mike Konsler - October 2011

Osprey - Jaime Welfelt and Kari Rain - April 2011

Northwestern Crow, confirmed breeder - Jaime Welfelt - 2011

Eurasian Collared-Dove - Gary Heger - Nov 2010

Common Eider - Mike Coller and Nick Hajdukovich - May 2006

White-winged Dove - first record for Alaska - found alive at Skagway - May 1982, subsequently died - specimen

     added to the University of Alaska Fairbanks collection (contributed by Cameron Eckert)

Western Screech Owl - Jeff Ruff & John Tronrud - 1995, fresh specimen given to Skagway School (contributed by Stan Selmer)

SKAGWAY CHECKLIST 2010

[loons]

Red-throated Loon

Pacific Loon

Common Loon

Yellow-billed Loon

[grebes]

Horned Grebe

Red-necked Grebe

Western Grebe

[petrels]

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel

[cormorants]

Double-crested Cormorant

[herons]

Great Blue Heron

[swans & geese]

Canada Goose

Brant

Greater White-fronted Goose

Snow Goose

Trumpeter Swan

Tundra Swan

[ducks]

Mallard

Gadwall

Eurasian Wigeon

American Wigeon

Blue-winged Teal

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Green-wingedTeal

Canvasback

Redhead

Common Eider

Ring-necked Duck

Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Long-tailed Duck

Harlequin Duck

Surf Scoter

Black Scoter

White-winged Scoter

Common Goldeneye

Barrow's Goldeneye

Bufflehead

Common Merganser

Hooded Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

[raptors]

Northern Harrier

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Swainson's Hawk (expected but no record as of 2010)

Northern Goshawk

Red-tailed Hawk

....Harlan's

Rough-legged Hawk

Golden Eagle

Bald Eagle

Merlin

American Kestrel

Osprey

Gyrfalcon

Peregrine Falcon 

[grouse & ptarmigan]

Spruce Grouse

Sooty (Blue) Grouse

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Willow Ptarmigan

Rock Ptarmigan

[rails & cranes]

American Coot

Sandhill Crane

[sandpipers]

Solitary Sandpiper

Spotted Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper (expected but no record as of 2010)

Pectoral Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Rock Sandpiper

Upland Sandpiper

Sanderling

[plovers]

American Golden-Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer

[other shorebirds]

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Surfbird

Hudsonian Godwit

Wandering Tattler

Dunlin

Black Oystercatcher

Long-billed Dowitcher

Wilson's (Common) Snipe

Red Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

Whimbrel

[gulls & terns]

Bonaparte's Gull

California Gull

Mew Gull

Herring Gull

Thayer's Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull

Glaucous Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Herring X Glaucous-winged gull hybrid

Black-legged Kittiwake

Arctic Tern

Caspian Tern

[alcids]

Common Murre

Pigeon Guillemot

Marbled Murrelet

Kittlitz's Murrelet (expected but no record as of 2010)

[pigeons and doves]

Rock Pigeon

Band-tailed Pigeon

Mourning Dove

Eurasian Collared-Dove

[owls]

Short-eared Owl

Barred Owl

Great Horned Owl

Snowy Owl

Boreal Owl

Long-eared Owl

Great Gray Owl (expected but no record as of 2010)

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Western Screech-Owl 

Northern Pygmy-Owl

Northern Hawk Owl