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Our Next Alaskan Trip will be in June 2008
 June 2-17 2008, the GOS will conduct another trip to southern and northern Alaska. Once again, we will spend a week in the Kenai Peninsula, and another week driving to the North Slope, from the mighty Brook’s Range to the coastal tundra around Prudhoe Bay. The trip will be two weeks, and cost $3000 (very expensive hotels). You fly yourself up and buy your meals. Stay tuned for the dates, but it will be in early June this year.

Birding In Alaska
by Jim Stevenson

Bluethroat

Lapland Longspur

Red-Faced Cormorant



Bald Eagle Flying Near Mountains

Smith's Longspur


Bald Eagle in Water

King Eider Male

Pigeon Gullimot On Log


Rhino Auklet

Long-Tailed Duck Pair


Common Murre

Spruce Grouse Hen

Rusty Blackbird


 

Yellow Wagtail Singing


Caribou Pair

Musk Oxen Running

Pacific Loon On Nest



RN Phalarope

WF Goose

Golden Plover In Road

Common Redpoll Foraging


Golden-Crowned Sparrow

Kodiak Bear

Pine Grosbeak

Moose and Calf In Trail


 

Long-Tailed Jaeger Hunting

Spectacled Eider

Arctic Fox


Arctic Tern Hovering
 

 

List of birds, keys as follows: K - Kenai Peninsula; I - interior of Alaska; B - around the Brook’s Range; A - Arctic Tundra (Prudhoe), S for Southern AK, F for Ferry, and E for everywhere.

 

Common Loon                E

Pacific Loon                      E

Yellow-billed Loon          A,K

Red-throated Loon          A

Red-necked Grebe           K,I

Horned Grebe                  E

Albatross,                         F

Fulmar                              F

Sooty Shearwater          F, K

Short-tailed S                F,K

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel K,F

Pelagic Cormorant           K,f

Red-faced Cormorant       K,f

Mallard                             E

Gadwall                            E

Pintail                               E

A Widgeon                       S

GW Teal                           A

Shoveler                            S

Greater Scaup                   A

Lesser Scaup                     S

Canvasback                       S

Oldsquaw                          A

WW Scoter                      A,I

Surf Scoter                       I,A

Black Scoter                     A

Harlequin Duck                E

Barrow’s Goldeneye         S

Common Merganser         S

Red-breasted Merg.          E

King Eider                         A

Common Eider                  A

Spectacled Eider               A-

Bufflehead                         E

WF Goose                          A

Canada Goose                    E

Tundra Swan                     A

Trumpeter Swan                S

Black Brant                        A

Horned Puffin                    K,F

Tufted Puffin                     K,F

Common Murre                 K,f

Thick-billed Murre             K,f

Parakeet Auklet                   K,f

Pigeon Guillemot               K,f

Rhino Auklet                     K,f

Ancient Murrelet               K,f

Cassin’s Auklet                  K,f

Glaucous Gull                     A

Gl-winged Gull                   S,f

Mew Gull                            S,I

BL Kittiwake                      f, K

Bonaparte’s Gull                 S

Herring Gull                        S

Sabine’s Gull                       A

Arctic Tern                          E

Aleutian Tern                       K

Long-tailed Jaeger                B

Parasitic Jaeger                    A

Pomarine Jaeger                   A

“Harlan’s” Hawk                      I

Rough-legged Hawk             B

N Harrier                               A

SS Hawk                               I

Goshawk                              I

Golden Eagle                        I,B

Bald Eagle                            S

Peale’s&Arctic Peregrine      K

Merlin                                  K

Kestrel                                  I

Gyrfalcon                            B,

Hawk Owl                            I

Snowy Owl                           A

SE Owl                                A,B

Spruce Grouse                      I

Willow Ptarmigan                E

White-tailed Ptar.             mtns

Rock Ptarmigan                    I

Sharp-tailed Grouse             I

Ruffed Grouse                     I

RN Pheasant                         K

GB Heron                             K

Sandhill Crane                      K

Am Golden-plover                 A

Pacific Golden-plover            A

Black-Bel Plover                   A

Semipalmated Plover            E

Black Oystercatcher              K

Both yellow-legs                   E

Solitary Sandpiper                 I

Sanderling                              A

Dunlin                                   A

Semipalmated Sandpiper       A

Least Sandpiper                      I

Pectoral Sandpiper                 A

Buff-breasted Sandpiper       A

Pectoral SP                           A  

Baird’s SP                             A

Upland Sandpiper                   I

both turnstones                       K

Surfbird                                  K

Wandering Tattler                  I

Wilson’s Snipe                       E

Short-b. Dowitcher                S

Long-b. Dowitcher                 A

Bar-tailed Godwit                K,B

Hudsonian Godwit                I,S

Whimbrel                               K

Rock Sandpiper                    K

Red Phalarope                       A

Red-necked Phalarope           A

Short-eared Owl                    A

Great Gray Owl                    S

Hawk Owl                           S,I

Snowy Owl                           A

Great Horned Owl                E

Boreal Owl                           S

N Saw-whet Owl                  S

Rufous Hummer                   S

B Kingfisher                          S

Three-toed Wdpkr                 I,K

Black-backed Wdpkr             I

Hairy,Downy&flicker

Tree Swallow                         S

Violent-green Swallow          S

Bank Swallow                        S

Cliff Swallow                         S

Alder Flycatcher                     S

Olive-sided Flycatcher           S

Say’s Phoebe                          I

Hammond’s Flycatcher          I

Western Wood-pewee           S

Alder Flycatcher                   S,I

Am. Robin                           S,I

Varied Thrush                        S

Veery                                     S,I

Swainson’s Thrush                 S,I

Gray-cheeked Thrush             K

Hermit Thrush                        S

Wheatear                               I,B

Bluethroat                               B

Town. Solitaire                      I

Mountain Bluebird                 I

Northern Shrike                      I

Bohemian Waxwing               I

Dipper                                  S,I

Yellow Wagtail                      B

American Pipit                       E

Horned Lark                           I

Am. Pipit                                I

Steller’s Jay                           S

Gray Jay                                S,I

BB Magpie                            S,I

Common Raven                    E

NW Crow                              K

Black-capped Chickadee       K

Chestnut-backed Chickadee  K

Boreal Chickadee                  I

Winter Wren                          K

Ruby-crowned Kinglet          K

Golden-crowned                   S

Wilson’s Warbler                  K,I

OC Warbler                          K

Blackpoll Warbler                K

Yellow-rumped Warbler      K,I

Townsend’s Warbler            K

Arctic Warbler                     I,A

Yellow Warbler                   S

Northern Waterthrush          S

Rusty Blackbird                   S

Song Sparrow                      K

Fox Sparrow                        K,I

Savannah Sparrow               E   

Lincoln’s Sparrow               S

Am. Tree Sparrow               A,B

White-crowned Sparrow    S,I,B

Golden-crowned Sparrow   S

Junco                                   S

Lapland Longspur               A

Smith’s Longspur               B

Snow Bunting                     B,A

Gray-crowned Rosy Finch   B

White-winged Crossbill      E

Red Crossbill                       S

Common Redpoll               S,I,B

Hoary Redpoll                    B,A

Pine Grosbeak                    B,I

Pine Siskin                        

 

All pictures by Jim Stevenson © 2002-2007
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Rt. 1 Box 185C
Galveston, TX 77554

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(409) 737-4081
Send an Email to Jim Stevenson
Galveston Ornithological Society
Rt. 1 Box 185C
Galveston, TX 77554