Denali Highway Cabins Property Bird List


Gyrfalcon - one of North America's - and Eurasia's - most sought-after birds

Birds that have been seen on the property. As with any yard list, some species are one-of-a-kind sightings, not to be expected.

ABA Code 2 birds are in bold; Code 3 birds are in red:

GAVIIFORMES & ANSERIFORMES
Common loon
Red-throated loon
Great blue heron
Trumpeter swan
Mallard
Northern pintail
Green-winged teal
American wigeon
Barrow's goldeneye
Harlequin duck
Common merganser
Red-breasted merganser

FALCONIFORMES & STRIGIFORMES
Northern goshawk
Sharp-shinned hawk
Red-tailed hawk (Harlan's)
Golden eagle
Bald eagle
Gyrfalcon
Merlin
Great horned owl
Northern hawk owl
Boreal owl

GALLIFORMES & CHARADRIIFORMES
Spruce grouse (Willow ptarmigan, ruffed & sharp-tailed grouse w/in 200 yards)
Sandhill crane
Lesser yellowlegs
Spotted sandpiper

GAVIIFORMES
Long-tailed jaeger
Glaucous-winged gull
Herring gull
Mew gull
Bonaparte's gull
Arctic tern

ALCIFORMES & PICIFORMES
Belted kingfisher
Northern flicker (yellow-shafted)
Hairy woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Three-toed woodpecker

TYRANNIFORMES & PASSERIFORMES
Say's phoebe
Alder flycatcher
Gray jay
Black-billed magpie
Common raven
Horned lark
Tree swallow
Bank swallow
Black-capped chickadee
Boreal chickadee
Brown creeper
American dipper
Winter wren
American robin
Varied thrush
Swainson's thrush
Townsend's solitaire
Ruby-crowned kinglet
American pipit
Bohemian waxwing
Orange-crowned warbler
Yellow warbler
Yellow-rumped warbler (myrtle)
Blackpoll warbler
Northern waterthrush
Common yellowthroat
Wilson's warbler
Rusty blackbird
American tree sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
Golden-crowned sparrow
Fox sparrow (red)
Song sparrow
Lapland longspur
Snow bunting
Pine grosbeak
Hoary redpoll
Common redpoll
Pine siskin
White-winged crossbill

Other birds of interest that have been found within a few miles of here:
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wandering Tattler
Wilson's Snipe
Red-necked Phalarope
Great Gray Owl
Short-eared Owl
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Rock Ptarmigan
Smith's Longspur
Arctic Warbler

 

 



Harlequin ducks on Gulkana River


Every year merlins nest on our property or nearby



Boreal owl in front of our house, with vole in its talons


Bald eagle from an Evening Scenic Float Trip


Fledgling northern shrike a few miles up the Denali Highway


Newly-fledged great horned owls just off-compound


All pictures above are your hosts', except the great horned owls which was taken by a guest of ours. We've lost the name associated with this photo: if it's yours, please let us know as we'd love to credit you for it!

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