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       Also, printed copies of the PDF checklist are available at the Skagway Visitor Information Center in the AB Hall on Broadway (also known as the "twig building")

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