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Birds of Kachemak Bay, Alaska
Checklist Updated April 2002 |
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Area Covered This Checklist covers the Anchor River drainage, the watersheds draining into Kachemak Bay including all of Kachemak Bay State Park and the Bay itself between Anchor Point and Point Pogibshi. |
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Abundance
C - Common: Easily found in small to large numbers in appropriate habitat at the right time of year. |
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Status
B - confirmed breeder |
| Species | Sp | Su | F | W | Status |
| Red-throated Loon | C | U | C | U | r/m b |
| Pacific Loon | C | U | C | C | r B |
| Common Loon | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Yellow-billed Loon | R | R | R | R | wr |
| Horned Grebe | C | U | C | C | r/m b |
| Red-necked Grebe | C | C | C | C | r/m B |
| Northern Fulmar | U | C | C | sr | |
| Sooty Shearwater | U | U | U | - | v |
| Short-tailed Shearwater | U | C | C | - | v |
| Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel | R | C | C | - | sr |
| Leach's Storm-Petrel | - | A | A | - | v |
| Brandt's Cormorant | - | A | - | - | v |
| Double-crested Cormorant | U | U | U | R | rb |
| Pelagic Cormorant | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Red-faced Cormorant | C | C | C | R | r B |
| Great Blue Heron | R | R | R | R | v |
| Tundra Swan | U | - | U | - | m |
| Trumpeter Swan | C | R | C | - | sr/m B |
| Greater Wt-fronted Goose | C | C | U | A | m |
| Snow Goose | R | - | U | - | m |
| Emperor Goose | R | - | - | A | v |
| Brant | C | C | R | A | m |
| Canada Goose | C | U | C | - | m |
| Green-winged Teal | C | C | C | A | sr/m B |
| Mallard | C | C | C | C | r/m B |
| Northern Pintail | C | U | C | A | sr/m B |
| Blue-winged Teal | A | - | A | - | m |
| Northern Shoveler | C | U | U | R | m |
| Gadwall | U | R | R | - | m |
| Eurasian Wigeon | U | R | - | - | mb |
| American Wigeon | C | C | C | - | sr/m B |
| Common Pochard | Ac | - | - | - | v |
| Canvasback | U | - | A | - | m |
| Redhead | U | - | - | - | m |
| Ring-necked Duck | R | - | - | - | m |
| Tufted Duck | Ac | - | - | - | v |
| Greater Scaup | C | C | C | C | r/m |
| Lesser Scaup | R | - | - | - | m |
| Common Eider | C | C | C | C | r B |
| King Eider | U | R | R | U | wr |
| Spectacled Eider | - | - | - | A | v |
| Steller's Eider | C | R | C | C | wr |
| Harlequin Duck | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Long-tailed Duck | C | R | C | C | wr |
| Black Scoter | C | C | C | C | r/m B |
| Surf Scoter | C | C | C | C | r/m |
| White-winged Scoter | C | C | C | C | r/m |
| Common Goldeneye | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Barrow's Goldeneye | C | C | C | C | r/m B |
| Bufflehead | C | R | C | C | r/m b |
| Common Merganser | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Red-breasted Merganser | C | C | U | U | r B |
| Ruddy Duck | - | - | A | - | v |
| Osprey | R | R | R | - | m |
| Bald Eagle | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Northern Harrier | C | U | U | R | sr B |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Northern Goshawk | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Swainson's Hawk | R | - | R | - | m |
| Red-tailed Hawk | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Rough-legged Hawk | U | U | U | - | sr B |
| Golden Eagle | R | R | R | - | sr b |
| American Kestrel | R | R | R | - | m |
| Merlin | U | U | R | R | sr B |
| Peregrine Falcon | U | U | R | R | sr B |
| Gyrfalcon | R | R | R | R | wr |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Spruce Grouse | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Willow Ptarmigan | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Rock Ptarmigan | U | U | U | U | r B |
| White-tailed Ptarmigan | R | R | R | R | r b |
| American Coot | - | - | A | - | v |
| Sandhill Crane | C | C | C | - | sr/m B |
| Black-bellied Plover | C | C | C | - | m |
| American Golden-plover | U | U | U | - | m |
| Pacific Golden-plover | U | R | U | - | m |
| Semipalmated Plover | C | C | C | - | sr/m B |
| Killdeer | R | R | - | - | v |
| Black Oystercatcher | U | U | U | R | sr B |
| Greater Yellowlegs | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | C | C | C | - | sr b |
| Solitary Sandpiper | R | R | R | - | m |
| Wandering Tattler | C | C | C | - | sr |
| Spotted Sandpiper | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Whimbrel | C | C | C | - | sr/m |
| Bristle-thighed Curlew | A | - | - | - | m |
| Hudsonian Godwit | U | A | - | - | m |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | U | A | A | - | m |
| Marbled Godwit | U | - | - | - | m |
| Ruddy Turnstone | U | R | R | - | m |
| Black Turnstone | C | U | U | - | m |
| Surfbird | C | C | C | - | sr/m |
| Red Knot | U | R | R | - | m |
| Sanderling | U | U | U | A | m |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | C | C | C | - | m |
| Western Sandpiper | C | C | C | - | m |
| Red-necked Stint | A | A | - | - | v |
| Temminck's Stint | A | - | - | - | v |
| Least Sandpiper | C | U | U | - | sr/m B |
| Baird's Sandpiper | R | R | R | - | m |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | C | U | C | - | m |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | - | - | U | - | m |
| Rock Sandpiper | C | R | U | C | wr |
| Dunlin | C | U | U | R | m |
| Ruff | A | - | - | - | v |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | C | C | C | - | m b |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | C | U | U | - | sr/m |
| Common Snipe | C | C | C | R | sr B |
| Red-necked Phalarope | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Red Phalarope | A | A | A | - | v |
| Pomarine Jaeger | U | U | R | - | m |
| Parasitic Jaeger | U | U | R | - | sr B |
| Long-tailed Jaeger | R | R | R | - | v |
| Franklin's Gull | - | A | - | - | v |
| Black-headed Gull | - | A | - | - | v |
| Bonaparte's Gull | C | C | C | R | sr B |
| Black-tailed Gull | - | A | - | - | v |
| Mew Gull | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Ring-billed Gull | A | A | A | A | v |
| California Gull | - | - | A | - | v |
| Herring Gull | C | U | C | C | r |
| Thayer's Gull | - | - | A | A | v |
| Slaty-backed Gull | A | - | - | A | v |
| Western Gull | - | A | - | - | V |
| Glaucous-winged Gull | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Glaucous Gull | U | R | U | U | wr |
| Black-legged Kittiwake | C | C | C | U | sr B |
| Red-legged Kittiwake | - | A | - | - | v |
| Ross' Gull | - | A | - | - | v |
| Sabine's Gull | R | R | R | - | v |
| Ivory Gull | - | - | - | A | v |
| Caspian Tern | A | A | - | - | v |
| Arctic Tern | C | C | R | - | sr B |
| Aleutian Tern | C | C | R | - | sr B |
| White-winged Tern | - | A | - | - | v |
| Common Murre | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Thick-billed Murre | A | A | A | R | wr |
| Pigeon Guillemot | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Marbled Murrelet | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Kittlitz's Murrelet | C | C | C | R | r B |
| Ancient Murrelet | R | R | R | R | sr b |
| Cassin's Auklet | - | R | R | - | v |
| Parakeet Auklet | A | A | A | - | v |
| Crested Auklet | A | A | A | R | v |
| Rhinoceros Auklet | A | R | - | - | v |
| Tufted Puffin | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Horned Puffin | C | C | C | R | sr B |
| Rock Dove | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Mourning Dove | - | - | A | A | v |
| Western Screech-Owl | - | A | - | - | v |
| Great Horned Owl | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Snowy Owl | R | - | - | R | wr |
| Northern Hawk-Owl | R | R | R | R | r b |
| Great Gray Owl | R | R | R | R | r b |
| Short-eared Owl | U | U | R | R | sr B |
| Boreal Owl | U | U | U | U | r b |
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | U | U | U | R | r B |
| Common Nighthawk | A | A | - | - | v |
| Rufous Hummingbird | U | U | U | - | sr/m b |
| Anna's Hummingbird | - | - | R | A | v |
| Belted Kingfisher | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Red-breasted Sapsucker | - | - | A | R | v |
| Downy Woodpecker | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Hairy Woodpecker | U | U | U | U | r b |
| Three-toed Woodpecker | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Black-backed Woodpecker | R | R | - | R | r B |
| Northern Flicker | R | R | R | R | r |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | R | U | U | - | sr B |
| Alder Flycatcher | R | C | C | - | sr B |
| Say's Phoebe | R | R | R | - | m |
| Northern Shrike | U | U | U | U | r B |
| Tree Swallow | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Violet-green Swallow | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Bank Swallow | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Cliff Swallow | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Horned Lark | R | U | U | A | sr b |
| Gray Jay | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Steller's Jay | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Black-billed Magpie | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Northwestern Crow | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Common Raven | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Black-capped Chickadee | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Boreal Chickadee | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Chestnut-backed Chickadee | R | R | R | R | r b |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Brown Creeper | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Winter Wren | C | C | C | C | r B |
| American Dipper | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | C | C | C | R | sr B |
| Northern Wheatear | R | R | R | - | m |
| Townsend's Solitaire | - | - | - | A | v |
| Mountain Bluebird | - | - | - | A | v |
| Grey-cheeked Thrush | U | U | U | - | sr B |
| Swainson's Thrush | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Hermit Thrush | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| American Robin | C | C | C | U | sr B |
| Varied Thrush | C | C | C | U | sr B |
| European Starling | - | - | - | R | v |
| Gray Starling | A | - | - | - | v |
| Yellow Wagtail | - | A | - | - | v |
| Black-backed Wagtail | - | A | - | - | v |
| American Pipit | C | C | C | R | sr b |
| Bohemian Waxwing | - | R | C | C | m |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | C | C | C | A | sr B |
| Yellow Warbler | U | U | U | - | sr B |
| Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Townsend's Warbler | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Blackpoll Warbler | U | U | U | - | sr B |
| Northern Waterthrush | U | U | U | - | sr B |
| Common Yellowthroat | - | A | - | - | v B |
| Wilson's Warbler | C | C | U | R | sr B |
| Western Tanager | A | - | - | - | v |
| American Tree Sparrow | U | U | U | U | r b |
| Savannah Sparrow | C | C | C | - | sr B |
| Fox Sparrow | C | C | C | R | sr B |
| Song Sparrow | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | C | C | C | R | sr B |
| White-throated Sparrow | A | - | - | A | v |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow | C | C | C | U | r/m B |
| White-crowned Sparrow | C | C | C | U | r/m B |
| Harris' Sparrow | - | - | - | A | v |
| Dark-eyed Junco | C | C | C | C | r/m B |
| Lapland Longspur | C | R | C | R | m |
| Rustic Bunting | A | - | - | - | v |
| Snow Bunting | U | - | - | U | wr |
| McKay's Bunting | - | - | - | A | v |
| Red-winged Blackbird | R | R | - | - | v |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird | - | A | - | - | v |
| Rusty Blackbird | U | U | U | R | sr B |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | - | - | - | A | v |
| Brambling | R | - | - | R | v |
| Gray-crowned Rosy Finch | C | A | C | C | wr |
| Pine Grosbeak | C | C | C | C | r B |
| Purple Finch | A | - | - | A | v |
| Cassin's Finch | A | - | - | A | v |
| Red Crossbill | R | R | R | R | i b |
| White-winged Crossbill | C | C | C | C | i b |
| Common Redpoll | C | C | C | C | r/i B |
| Hoary Redpoll | R | R | R | R | wr |
| Pine Siskin | C | C | C | C | r/i B |
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