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FAQ ALASKA - Frequently Asked Questions About Alaska

Question :
When do birds migrate to Alaska?

ANSWER :

Interior Alaska
  • Average date of first arrival for migrant birds.
    • March
      • 18 Snow Bunting
      • 25 Golden Eagle
    • April
      • 8 Bald Eagle
      • 12 Rough-legged Hawk
      • 13 Common Goldeneye
      • 14 Lapland Longspur
      • 15 Canada Goose; Northern Pintail; Red-tailed Hawk; Northern Harrier
      • 17 Mallard; American Kestrel; Short-eared Owl
      • 19 Trumpeter Swan; Herring Gull
      • 20 Greater White-fronted Goose
      • 22 American Wigeon; Sandhill Crane
      • 23 Northern Shoveler; Ruby-crowned Kinglet; American Tree Sparrow
      • 24 Snow Goose; Green-winged Teal; Mew Gull
      • 25 Redhead; Canvasback; American Pipit; Yellow-rumped Warbler
      • 26 Barrow's Goldeneye
      • 27 Varied Thrush
      • 28 Rusty Blackbird; Fox Sparrow
      • 29 Sharp-shinned Hawk; Violet-green Swallow; Tree Swallow
      • 30 Red-breasted Merganser; Lesser Yellowlegs
    • May
      • 1 Common Snipe; Bonaparte's Gull; Northern Flicker; Hammonds Flycatcher; Savannah Sparrow; White-crowned Sparrow
      • 2 Solitary Sandpiper; Hermit Thrush
      • 3 Golden-crowned Sparrow; Lincoln's Sparrow
      • 4 Horned Grebe; American Golden Plover
      • 6 Red-necked Grebe; Semipalmated Plover
      • 7 Orange-crowned Warbler
      • 8 Ring-neck Duck; Pectoral Sandpiper; Least Sandpiper; Belted Kingfisher
      • 9 Lesser Scamp
      • 10 Common Loon; Pacific Loon; Long-billed Dowitcher; Arctic Tern; Townsend's Warbler; Wilson's Warbler
      • 11 Say's Phoebe; Cliff Swallow
      • 12 Surf Scoter; Whimbrel; Swainson's Thrush; Northern Waterthrush
      • 13 Upland Sandpiper; Yellow Warbler; Blackpoll Warbler
      • 14 White-winged Scoter
      • 15 Oldsquaw; Grey-cheeled Thrush
      • 16 Wandering Tattler; Lond-tailed Jaeger; Western Wood-pewee; Olive-sided Flycatcher
      • 17 Spotted Sandpiper
      • 19 Bank Swallow
      • 20 Black-bellied Plover
      • 23 Stilt Sandpiper
      • 25 Alder Flycatcher
Coastal Alaska

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Source : Thanks to Brina Kessel and Dan Gibson of the University of Alaska Museum who compiled the data on which these average dates of first arrival are based.
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Last Modified: 27 September 2001
Contact: Alaska State Library: e-mail - asl@eed.state.ak.us

 

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