Birds found during FONT Birding Tours 
in the Pribilof Islands of Alaska

(on Saint Paul Island)

1995 thru 2001

(all tours during late May & early June)

The numbers following the bird names indicate the number of tours during which the bird has been found (out of 7).

Codes:

(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International
(nt): a near-threatened species globally
(c5) & (c4): codes 5 & 4 birds on the ABA checklist (rare in North America)

 Birds:

  1. Yellow-billed Loon 1
  2. Red-necked Grebe 1
  3. Northern Fulmar 7
  4. Pelagic Cormorant 6
  5. Red-faced Cormorant 7
  6. Tundra Swan 1
  7. Greater White-fronted Goose 1
  8. Snow Goose 1
  9. Ross' Goose 1
  10. Canada Goose 2
  11. Bean Goose (c4) 1
  12. Mallard 2
  13. Northern Pintail 7
  14. Falcated Duck (c5) 1
  15. (American) Green-winged Teal 7
  16. (Eurasian) Green-winged Teal 3
  17. Garganey (c4) 1
  18. Northern Shoveler 1
  19. American Wigeon 4
  20. Eurasian Wigeon 2
  21. Northern/Common Pochard (c4) 1
  22. Greater Scaup 5
  23. Tufted Duck 1
  24. Common Goldeneye 6
  25. Bufflehead 2
  26. Oldsquaw/Long-tailed Duck 7
  27. Harlequin Duck 7
  28. Common Eider 1
  29. King Eider 6
  30. Steller's Eider (t3) 2
  31. Surf Scoter 2
  32. White-winged Scoter 2
  33. Smew 1
  34. Common Merganser/Goosander 1
  35. Red-breasted Merganser 1
  36. Bald Eagle 3
  37. Peregrine Falcon 1
  38. Sandhill Crane 2
  39. Pacific Golden Plover 2
  40. Semipalmated Plover 7
  41. Common Greenshank 3
  42. Greater Yellowlegs 2
  43. Lesser Yellowlegs 1
  44. Wood Sandpiper (c4) 4
  45. Wandering Tattler 5
  46. Gray-tailed Tattler (c4) 2
  47. Common Sandpiper (c4) 1
  48. Green Sandpiper (c5) 1
  49. Whimbrel 2
  50. Bristle-thighed Curlew (t3) (c4) 1
  51. Far Eastern/Australian Curlew 1
  52. Bar-tailed Godwit 6
  53. Black-tailed Godwit (c4) 1
  54. Ruddy Turnstone 1
  55. Western Sandpiper 1
  56. Red-necked Stint (c4)
  57. Long-toed Stint (c4) 1
  58. Least Sandpiper 5
  59. Pectoral Sandpiper 3
  60. Rock Sandpiper 7
  61. Dunlin 1
  62. Ruff 1
  63. Short-billed Dowitcher 1
  64. Common/Holarctic Snipe 1
  65. Red-necked Phalarope 7
  66. Red/Grey Phalarope 2
  67. Parasitic Jaeger/Arctic Skua 3
  68. Long-tailed Jaeger/Skua 2
  69. Black-headed Gull 1
  70. Mew/Common Gull 1
  71. Herring Gull 1
  72. Slaty-backed Gull (c4) 1
  73. Glaucous-winged Gull 7
  74. Glaucous Gull 5
  75. Black-legged Kittiwake 7
  76. Red-legged Kittiwake (t3) 7
  77. Ross' Gull 1
  78. Sabine's Gull 1
  79. Common Tern 1
  80. Arctic Tern 1
  81. Common Murre/Guillemot 7
  82. Thick-billed Murre/Brunnich's Guillemot 7
  83. Pigeon Guillemot 3
  84. Marbled Murrelet (nt) 1
  85. Ancient Murrelet 1
  86. Parakeet Auklet 7
  87. Least Auklet 7
  88. Crested Auklet 7
  89. Tufted Puffin 7
  90. Horned Puffin 7
  91. Common/Eurasian Cuckoo (c5) 1
  92. Snowy Owl
  93. Short-eared Owl 3
  94. Eurasian Skylark (not introduced) 1
  95. Tree Swallow 3
  96. Bank Swallow/Sand Martin 1
  97. Northern/Winter Wren 6
  98. Northern Wheatear 1
  99. Eye-browed Thrush (c4) 1
  100. Yellow Wagtail 2
  101. Olive-backed Pipit (c4) 2
  102. Red-throated Pipit
  103. Buff-bellied/American Pipit 1
  104. Yellow-rumped/Myrtle Warbler 1
  105. Wilson's Warbler 1
  106. Song Sparrow 1(*)
  107. Lapland Longspur/Bunting 7
  108. Snow Bunting 7
  109. Red-winged Blackbird 1
  110. Brambling (c4) 1
  111. Gray-crowned Rosy Finch 7
  112. Oriental Greenfinch (c 5) 1
  113. Common Redpoll 4

Notes:

(*) Song Sparrow on St Paul Island in the Pribilofs said to be ship-assisted.

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