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Bird Information Guide

A total of 133 species of birds have been observed in the park and preserve over the past 25-30 years. Nearly half of those recorded are normally associated with aquatic habitats.

Raptors inhabiting the park include species of eagles, hawks, falcons, and owls, three jaegers, and the northern shrike. Because of their place high in the food chain, raptors are more susceptible to environmental disturbance and population fluctuations. Arctic peregrine falcons, a threatened species only recently removed from the endangered list, nest in the area.

Bird List Listed by common name

Common Loon Horned Grebe Pacific Loon Red-necked Grebe Red-throated Loon Yellow-billed Loon American Widgeon Black Scoter Brant Buffleheah Canada Goose Canvasback Common Eider Common Goldeneye Emperor Goose Greater Scaup Greater White-fronted Goose Green-winged Teal Harlequin Duck King Eider Lesser Scaup Mallard Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Oldsquaw Red-breasted Merganser Snow Goose Surf Scoter Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle Golden Eagle Northern Goshawk Northern Harrier Osprey Red-tailed (Harlan's) Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk American Kestrel Gyrfalcon Merlin Peregrine Falcon Rock Ptarmigan Ruffed Grouse Sharp-tailed Grouse Spruce Grouse Willow Ptarmigan Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover

Lesser Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Baird's Sandpiper Bar-tailed Godwit Buff-breasted Sandpiper Common Snipe Dunlin Least Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Long-billed Dowitcher Pectoral Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Surfbird Upland Sandpiper Wandering Tattler Western Sandpiper Whimbrel White-rumped Sandpiper Arctic Tern Bonaparte's Gull Glaucous Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Herring Gull Long-tailed Jaeger Mew Gull Parasitic Jaeger Pomarine Jaeger Sabine's Gull Boreal Owl Great Gray Owl Great-horned Owl Northern Hawk Owl Short-eared Owl Snowy Owl Belted Kingfisher Black-backed Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Three-toed Woodpecker Alder Flycatcher Olive-sided Flycatcher Say's Phoebe

Horned Lark Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Common Raven Gray Jay Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee Siberian Tit American Robin Arctic Warbler Bluethroat Gray-cheeked Thrush Northern Wheatear Ruby-crowned Kinglet Swainson's Thrush Varied Thrush American (Water) Pipit Yellow Wagtail American Dipper Bohemian Waxwing Northern Shrike American Tree Sparrow Blackpoll Warbler Common Redpoll Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-color) Fox Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Hoary Redpoll Lapland Longspur Lincoln's Sparrow Northern Waterthrush Orange-crowned Warbler Pine Grosbeak Rosy Finch Rusty Blackbird Savannah Sparrow Smith's Longspur Snow Bunting White-crowned Sparrow White-winged Crossbill Wilson's Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler

A bird checklist with habitat information is available for Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve and can be obtained from Park Headquarters.

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