Barrow Area Birding Checklist

This checklist was originally compiled by the people in charge of the BBC Barrow Birding Center. We've edited it a bit and cross-linked the many species to descriptive flashcards through another wonderful website: eNature.com.

This checklist is provided solely as a helpful guide to those visting Barrow Area and the birder friendly King Eider Inn. Unfortunately our staff are not birders and can not vouch for the accuracy of the checklist.

Visit our King Eider Birding Site for more birding information.

LOONS

[ ][ ] Red-throated Loon

[ ][ ] Arctic Loon

[ ][ ] Pacific Loon

[ ][ ] Common Loon

[ ][ ] Yellow-billed Loon

GREBES

[ ][ ] Red-necked Grebe

[ ][ ] Horned Grebe

ALBATROSSES

[ ][ ] Black-footed Albatross

SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS

[ ][ ] Northern Fulmar

[ ][ ] Short-tailed Shearwater

CORMORANTS

[ ][ ] Pelagic Cormorant

DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS

[ ][ ] Tundra Swan

[ ][ ] Greater White-fronted Goose

[ ][ ] Snow Goose

[ ][ ] Emperor Goose

[ ][ ] Canada Goose

[ ][ ] Brant

[ ][ ] American Wigeon

[ ][ ] Green-winged Teal

[ ][ ] Mallard

[ ][ ] Northern Pintail

[ ][ ] Northern Shoveler

[ ][ ] Canvasback

[ ][ ] Redhead

[ ][ ] Greater Scaup

[ ][ ] Lesser Scaup

[ ][ ] Common Eider

[ ][ ] King Eider

[ ][ ] Spectacled Eider

[ ][ ] Steller's Eider

[ ][ ] Harlequin Duck

[ ][ ] Long-tailed Duck

[ ][ ] Surf Scoter

[ ][ ] White-winged Scoter

[ ][ ] Red-breasted Merganser

[ ][ ] Common Merganser

OSPREY

[ ][ ] Osprey

HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES

[ ][ ] Bald Eagle

[ ][ ] Northern Harrier

[ ][ ] Sharp-shinned Hawk

[ ][ ] Northern Goshawk

[ ][ ] Red-tailed Hawk

[ ][ ] Rough-legged Hawk

[ ][ ] Golden Eagle

FALCONS AND CARACARAS

[ ][ ] American Kestrel

[ ][ ] Merlin

[ ][ ] Gyrfalcon

[ ][ ] Peregrine Falcon

GROUSE, PTARMIGAN, PRAIRIE-CHICKENS

[ ][ ] Willow Ptarmigan

[ ][ ] Rock Ptarmigan

CRANES

[ ][ ] Sandhill Crane

PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS

[ ][ ] American Golden-Plover

[ ][ ] Black-bellied Plover

[ ][ ] Semipalmated Plover

[ ][ ] Killdeer

[ ][ ] Mongolian Plover

[ ][ ] Eurasian Dotterel

SANDPIPERS

[ ][ ] Common Snipe

[ ][ ] Hudsonian Godwit

[ ][ ] Bar-tailed Godwit

[ ][ ] Whimbrel

[ ][ ] Greater Yellowlegs

[ ][ ] Lesser Yellowlegs

[ ][ ] Solitary Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Wood Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Spotted Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Gray-tailed Tattler

[ ][ ] Wandering Tattler

[ ][ ] Ruddy Turnstone

[ ][ ] Red Knot

[ ][ ] Sanderling

[ ][ ] Semipalmated Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Western Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Red-necked Stint

[ ][ ] Little Stint

[ ][ ] Least Sandpiper

[ ][ ] White-rumped Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Baird's Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Pectoral Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Curlew Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Dunlin

[ ][ ] Purple Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Stilt Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Buff-breasted Sandpiper

[ ][ ] Ruff

[ ][ ] Wilson's Phalarope

[ ][ ] Red-necked Phalarope

[ ][ ] Red Phalarope

JAEGERS AND SKUAS

[ ][ ] Pomarine Jaeger

[ ][ ] Parasitic Jaeger

[ ][ ] Long-tailed Jaeger

GULLS

[ ][ ] Mew Gull

[ ][ ] Glaucous Gull

[ ][ ] Thayer's Gull

[ ][ ] Herring Gull

[ ][ ] Slaty-backed Gull

[ ][ ] Ivory Gull

[ ][ ] Ross's Gull

[ ][ ] Sabine's Gull

[ ][ ] Black-legged Kittiwake

TERNS

[ ][ ] Arctic Tern

AUKS, MURRES AND PUFFINS

[ ][ ] Dovekie

[ ][ ] Common Murre

[ ][ ] Thick-billed Murre

[ ][ ] Black Guillemot

[ ][ ] Kittlitz's Murrelet

[ ][ ] Parakeet Auklet

[ ][ ] Crested Auklet

[ ][ ] Least Auklet

[ ][ ] Horned Puffin

[ ][ ] Tufted Puffin

OWLS

[ ][ ] Snowy Owl

[ ][ ] Short-eared Owl

NIGHTJARS

[ ][ ] Common Nighthawk

TYRANT FLYCATCHERS

[ ][ ] Olive-sided Flycatcher

[ ][ ] Western Wood-Pewee

[ ][ ] Alder Flycatcher

[ ][ ] Say's Phoebe

[ ][ ] Eastern Kingbird

LARKS

[ ][ ] Horned Lark

SWALLOWS

[ ][ ] Tree Swallow

[ ][ ] Violet-green Swallow

[ ][ ] Northern Rough-winged Swallow

[ ][ ] Bank Swallow

[ ][ ] Cliff Swallow

[ ][ ] Barn Swallow

WAGTAILS AND PIPITS

[ ][ ] White Wagtail

[ ][ ] Yellow Wagtail

[ ][ ] Red-throated Pipit

[ ][ ] American Pipit

KINGLETS

[ ][ ] Ruby-crowned Kinglet

WRENS

[ ][ ] Winter Wren

MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS

[ ][ ] Brown Thrasher

ACCENTORS

[ ][ ] Siberian Accentor

THRUSHES

[ ][ ] Mountain Bluebird

[ ][ ] Gray-cheeked Thrush

[ ][ ] Swainson's Thrush

[ ][ ] Hermit Thrush

[ ][ ] Eyebrowed Thrush

[ ][ ] Dusky Thrush

[ ][ ] Fieldfare

[ ][ ] American Robin

[ ][ ] Varied Thrush

OLD WORLD WARBLERS

[ ][ ] Arctic Warbler

OLD WORLD FLYCATCHERS

[ ][ ] Bluethroat

[ ][ ] Northern Wheatear

CHICKADEES AND TITS

[ ][ ] Black-capped Chickadee

SHRIKES

[ ][ ] Northern Shrike

CROWS AND JAYS

[ ][ ] Gray Jay

[ ][ ] Common Raven

STARLINGS

[ ][ ] European Starling

WOOD WARBLERS

[ ][ ] Orange-crowned Warbler

[ ][ ] Yellow Warbler

[ ][ ] Yellow-rumped Warbler

[ ][ ] Blackpoll Warbler

[ ][ ] Black-and-white Warbler

[ ][ ] American Redstart

[ ][ ] Ovenbird

[ ][ ] Northern Waterthrush

[ ][ ] Wilson's Warbler

[ ][ ] Canada Warbler

TANAGERS AND ALLIES

[ ][ ] Scarlet Tanager

[ ][ ] Western Tanager

SPARROWS, TOWHEES, JUNCOS

[ ][ ] American Tree Sparrow

[ ][ ] Chipping Sparrow

[ ][ ] Savannah Sparrow

[ ][ ] Fox Sparrow

[ ][ ] Lincoln's Sparrow

[ ][ ] White-crowned Sparrow

[ ][ ] Golden-crowned Sparrow

[ ][ ] Harris's Sparrow

[ ][ ] Dark-eyed Junco

[ ][ ] Lapland Longspur

[ ][ ] Smith's Longspur

[ ][ ] Snow Bunting

BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, GRACKLES, ETC.

[ ][ ] Bobolink

[ ][ ] Red-winged Blackbird

[ ][ ] Yellow-headed Blackbird

[ ][ ] Rusty Blackbird

[ ][ ] Brewer's Blackbird

[ ][ ] Brown-headed Cowbird

FINCHES, SISKINS, CROSSBILLS

[ ][ ] Brambling

[ ][ ] Common Redpoll

[ ][ ] Hoary Redpoll

[ ][ ] Pine Siskin