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"With miles of remote seacoast and year-round, ice free waters, the Aleutian Islands are important wintering and breeding grounds for many unique species. Along with our resident birds, there's always the chance of spotting casual or accidental species from Asia."
-- Unalaska/Port of Dutch Harbor Convention and Visitors Bureau
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Unofficial Bird List for Unalaska Island*
| Red-throated Loon |
C |
| Common Loon |
R |
| Yellow-Billed Loon |
W |
| Horned Grebe |
W |
| Red-necked Grebe |
W |
| Western Grebe |
C |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
R |
| Pelagic Cormorant |
R |
| Red-faced Cormorant |
R |
| Common Murre |
R |
| Thick-billed Murre |
R |
| Tufted Puffin |
R |
| Horned Puffin |
R |
| Pigeon Guillemot |
R |
| Rhinoceros Auklet |
|
| Crested Auklet |
|
| Whiskered Auklet |
P |
| Parakeet Auklet |
|
| Cassin's Auklet |
|
| Least Auklet |
|
| Ancient Murrelet |
|
| Marbled Murrelet |
|
| Kittlitz's Murrelet |
|
| Tundra Swan |
|
| Whooper Swan |
|
| Emperor Goose |
W |
| Canada Goose |
|
| Brant |
M |
| Gadwall |
W |
| Mallard |
R |
| Northern Pintail |
|
| American Wigeon |
C |
| Eurasian Wigeon |
|
| Green-winged Teal |
R |
| White-winged Scoter |
R |
| Surf Scoter |
R |
| Black Scoter |
|
| King Eider |
W |
| Common Eider |
|
| Spectacled Eider |
|
| Steller's Eider |
R |
| Harlequin Duck |
R |
| Oldsquaw |
W |
| Tufted Duck |
C |
| Lesser Scaup |
W(R?) |
| Greater Scaup |
R |
| Common Goldeneye |
W |
| Barrow's Goldeneye |
W |
| Red-breasted Merganser |
R |
| Black-footed Albatross |
P |
| Laysan Albatross |
P |
| Short-tailed Albatross |
P |
| Sooty Shearwater |
P |
| Short-tailed Shearwater |
P |
| Northern Fulmar |
P |
| Cook's Petrel |
P |
| Mottled Petrel |
P |
| Fork-tailed Storm Petrel |
P |
| Leach's Storm Petrel |
P |
| South Polar Skua |
P |
| Parasitic Jaeger |
P |
| Pomarine Jaeger |
P |
| Long-tailed Jaeger |
P |
| Slaty-backed Gull |
|
| Herring Gull |
C |
| Mew Gull |
C |
| Glaucous-winged Gull |
R |
| Glaucous Gull |
W |
| Black-legged Kittiwake |
R |
| Red-legged Kittiwake |
|
| Bonaparte's Gull |
C |
| Arctic Tern |
|
| Sandhill Crane |
C |
| Black Oystercatcher |
R |
| Semipalmated Plover |
C |
| Bar-tailed Godwit |
|
| Red-necked Phalarope |
|
| Common Snipe |
B |
| Red Knot |
|
| Dunlin |
|
| Sanderling |
|
| Wandering Tattler |
C |
| Rock Sandpiper |
R |
| Black Turnstone |
|
| Ruddy Turnstone |
M |
| Least Sandpiper |
B |
| Western Sandpiper |
|
| Rock Ptarmigan |
R |
| Willow Ptarmigan |
R |
| Rough-legged Hawk |
R |
| Bald Eagle |
R |
| White-tailed Sea Eagle |
A |
| Steller's Sea Eagle |
A |
| Gyrfalcon |
B |
| Peregrine Falcon |
R |
| Merlin |
C |
| Snowy Owl |
C |
| Short-eared Owl |
C |
| Belted Kingfisher |
R |
| American Pipit |
B |
| Bank Swallow |
B |
| Common Raven |
R |
| Black-billed Magpie |
C |
| Winter Wren |
R |
| American Dipper |
R |
| Northern Shrike |
C |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow |
|
| Song Sparrow |
R |
| Savannah Sparrow |
R |
| Lapland Longspur |
B |
| Snow Bunting |
R |
| Rosy Finch |
R |
| Common Redpoll |
W |
*List compiled by local Unalaska resident Suzi Golodoff
|
| R - | Resident, year round |
| B - | Breeds |
| W - | Winters |
| M - | Migratory |
| P - | Pelagic |
| C - | Casual
(one to several sightings
in a decade) |
| A - | Accidental
(less than 20
sightings recorded) |
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