Bird List
A complete list of birds seen on or from our property.
- Common loon
- Red-throated loon
- Great blue heron
- Tundra swan
- Trumpeter swan
- Greater white-fronted goose
- Snow goose
- Canada goose
- Mallard
- Northern pintail
- Green-winged teal
- American wigeon
- Barrow’s goldeneye
- Harlequin duck
- Common merganser
- Red-breasted merganser
- Northern goshawk
- Sharp-shinned hawk
- Red-tailed hawk (Harlan’s)
- Golden eagle
- Bald eagle
- Gyrfalcon
- Merlin
- Peregrine falcon
- Spruce grouse
- Sandhill crane
- Wilson’s snipe
- Lesser yellowlegs
- Spotted sandpiper
- Solitary sandpiper
- Long-tailed jaeger
- Glaucous-winged gull
- Herring gull
- Mew gull
- Bonaparte’s gull
- Arctic tern
- Great horned owl
- Northern hawk-owl
- Boreal owl
- Great gray owl
- Belted kingfisher
- Northern flicker (yellow-shafted)
- Hairy woodpecker
- Downy woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Three-toed woodpecker
- Olive-sided flycatcher
- Say’s phoebe
- Alder flycatcher
- Hammond’s flycatcher
- Horned lark
- Tree swallow
- Violet-green swallow
- Bank swallow
- Cliff swallow
- Gray jay
- Black-billed magpie
- Common raven
- Black-capped chickadee
- Boreal chickadee
- Brown creeper
- American dipper
- Ruby-crowned kinglet
- Arctic warbler
- Winter wren
- Mountain bluebird
- American robin
- Hermit thrush
- Varied thrush
- Swainson’s thrush
- Gray-cheeked thrush
- Townsend’s solitaire
- American pipit
- Bohemian waxwing
- Orange-crowned warbler
- Yellow warbler
- Yellow-rumped warbler (myrtle)
- Blackpoll warbler
- Northern waterthrush
- Wilson’s warbler
- Rusty blackbird
- American tree sparrow
- White-crowned sparrow
- Golden-crowned sparrow
- Fox sparrow (red)
- Song sparrow
- Dark-eyed junco
- Lapland longspur
- Snow bunting
- Pine grosbeak
- Hoary redpoll
- Common redpoll
- Pine siskin
- White-winged crossbill
- Gray-crowned rosy-finch
Other birds of interest that have been found within a few miles of here; almost any of these birds might eventually join the property list.
- Long-billed dowitcher
- Wandering tattler
- Red-necked phalarope
- Short-eared owl
- Black-backed woodpecker
- Ruffed grouse
- Sharp-tailed grouse
- Willow ptarmigan
- Rock ptarmigan
- White-tailed ptarmigan
- Northern shrike
- Northern wheatear
- Smith’s longspur
- Lincoln’s sparrow
- Savannah sparrow
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We are happy to share our home and beautiful location with you!
"The hosts have done a great job re-creating an upscale B&B feel, with nice furnishings and details in the cabins and a beautiful great room."
- TripAdvisor member IzNox, Florida, October 8, 2011
What Guests Are Saying
"Audie and Jenny have created a real oasis here. The cabins are excellent, very comfortable, nicely appointed with upscale features."
- TripAdvisor member Kenneth A, California, August 10, 2012
Get In Touch
Denali Highway Cabins & Tours
HC02 Box 7292
Paxson (Gakona), Alaska 99586-9205
907-987-0977
Office hours: 7 am to 7 pm Alaska time
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