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Birds of Interior Alaska

Fairbanks, Alaska

* Rare
+ Casual or accidental
Geographic Area - Alaska Range to Brooks Range, Anvik and Aniak rivers to Alaska-Canada border

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GAVIFORMES     
GAVIDAE

___ Red-throated Loon
___ Pacific Loon
___ Common Loon
___ Yellow-billed Loon+

PODICIPEDIFORMES     
PODICOPEDIDAE

___ Horned Grebe
___ Red-necked Grebe

PROCELLARIFORMES     
PROCELLARIDAE

___ Short-tailed Shearwater+
HYDROBATIDAE

___ Fork-tailed Storm Petrel+

PELECANIFORMES
PHALACROCORACIDAE

___ Double-crested Cormorant+

CICONIFORMES
ARDEIDAE

___ Great Blue Heron+

ANSERIFORMES
ANATIDAE

___ Tundra Swan
___ Trumpeter Swan
___ Greater White-fronted Goose
___ Snow Goose
___ "Blue" Goose*
___ Brant*
___ Canada Goose
___ Green-winged Teal
___ American Black Duck+
___ Mallard
___ Northern Pintail
___ Blue-winged Teal
___ Cinnamon Teal+
___ Northern Shoveler
___ Gadwall*
___ Eurasian Wigeon*
___ American Wigeon
___ Canvasback
___ Redhead
___ Ring-necked Duck
___ Greater Scaup
___ Lesser Scaup
___ King Eider+
___ Harlequin Duck
___ Oldsquaw
___ Black Scoter*
___ Surf Scoter
___ White-winged Scoter
___ Common Goldeneye
___ Barrow's Goldeneye
___ Bufflehead
___ Hooded Merganser+
___ Common Merganser
___ Red-breasted Merganser
___ Ruddy Duck+

FALCONIFORMES
CATHARTIDAE

___ Turkey Vulture
ACCIPITRIDAE

___ Osprey
___ Bald Eagle
___ Northern Harrier
___ Sharp-shinned Hawk
___ Northern Goshawk
___ Swainson's Hawk*
___ Red-tailed Hawk
___ "Harlan's" Hawk
___ Rough-legged Hawk
___ Golden Eagle
FALCONIDAE

___ American Kestrel
___ Merlin
___ Peregrine Falcon
___ Gyrfalcon

GALLIFORMES
PHASIANIDAE

___ Spruce Grouse
___ Willow Ptarmigan
___ Rock Ptarmigan
___ White-tailed Ptarmigan
___ Ruffed Grouse
___ Sharp-tailed Grouse

GRUIFORMES
RALIDAE

___ Sora+
___ American Coot*
GRUIDAE

___ Sandhill Crane
___ Common Crane+

CHARADRIFORMES
CHARADRIDAE

___ Black-bellied Plover*
___ Lesser Golden-Plover
___ Mongolian Plover+
___ Semipalmated Plover
___ Killdeer*
___ Eurasian Dotterel+
SCOLOPACIDAE

___ Greater Yellowlegs*
___ Lesser Yellowlegs
___ Solitary Sandpiper
___ Willet+
___ Wandering Tattler
___ Spotted Sandpiper
___ Upland Sandpiper
___ Whimbrel
___ Bristle-thighed Curlew+
___ Hudsonian Godwit*
___ Ruddy Turnstone*
___ Black Turnstone*
___ Surfbird
___ Red Knot+
___ Sanderling*
___ Semipalmated Sandpiper
___ Western Sandpiper*
___ Least Sandpiper
___ White-rumped Sandpiper*
___ Baird's Sandpiper
___ Pectoral Sandpiper
___ Dunlin*
___ Stilt Sandpiper*
___ Buff-breasted Sandpiper*
___ Long-billed Dowitcher
___ Common Snipe
___ Wilson's Phalarope+
___ Red-necked Phalarope
___ Red Phalarope+
LARIDAE

___ Pomarine Jaeger+
___ Parasitic Jaeger*
___ Long-tailed Jaeger
___ Common lack-headed Gull+
___ Bonaparte's Gull
___ Mew Gull
___ Ring-billed Gull+
___ Herring Gull
___ Glaucous Gull*
___ Black-legged Kittiwake+
___ Red-legged Kittiwake+
___ Ross' Gull+
___ Sabine's Gull+
___ Caspian Tern+
___ Arctic Tern
___ Black Tern+
ALCIDAE

___ Black Guillemot+
___ Marbled Murrelet+
___ Crested Auklet+

COLUMBIFORMES
COLUMBIDAE

___ Rock Dove
___ Mourning Dove*

APODIFORMES
TROCHLIDAE

___ Rufous Hummingbirds*

CORACIFORMES
ALCEDINIDAE

___ Belted Kingfisher

PICIFORMES
PICIDAE

___ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker*
___ Downy Woodpecker
___ Hairy Woodpecker
___ Three-toed Woodpecker
___ Black-backed Woodpecker*
___ Northern Flicker

PASSERIFORMES
TYRANNIDAE

___ Olive-sided Flycatcher
___ Western Wood-Peewee
___ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher+
___ Alder Flycatcher
___ Hammond's Flycatcher
___ Say's Phoebe
___ Western Kingbird+
___ Easter Kingbird+
ALAUDIDAE

___ Horned Lark
HIRUNDINIDAE

___ Purple Martin+
___ Tree Swallow
___ Violet-green Swallow
___ Bank Swallow
___ Cliff Swallow
___ Barn Swallow*
CORVIDAE

___ Gray Jay
___ Clark's Nutcracker+
___ Black-billed Magpie
___ Common Raven
PARIDAE

___ Black-capped Chickadee
___ Siberian Tit*
___ Boreal Chickadee
SITTIDAE

___ Red-breasted Nuthatch*
CERTHIDAE

___ Brown Creeper*
CINCLIDAE

___ American Dipper
MUSCICAPIDAE

___ Arctic Warbler
___ Golden-crowned Kinglet+
___ Ruby-crowned Kinlet
___ Norther Wheatear
___ Mountain Bluebird*
___ Townsend's Solitaire
___ Gray-cheeked Thrush
___ Swainson's Thrush
___ Hermit Thrush
___ American Robin
___ Varied Thrush
MIMIDAE

___ Brown Thrasher
PRUNELLIDAE

___ Siberian Accentor+
MOTACILLIDAE

___ Yellow Wagtail+
___ White Wagtail+
___ Water Pipit
BOMBYCILLIDAE

___Bohemian Waxwing
LANIDAE

___Northern Shrike
STURNIDAE

___ European Starling*
VIREONIDAE

___Philadelpia Vireo+
EMBERIZIDAE

___ Tennessee Warbler+
___ Orange-crowned Warbler
___ Yellow Warbler
___ Cape May Warbler+
___ Yellow-rumped Warbler
___ Townsend's Warbler
___ Bay-breasted Warbler
___ Blackpoll Warbler
___ American Redstart+
___ Ovenbird+
___ Northern Waterthrush
___ MacGillivray's Warbler+
___ Common Yellowthroat+
___ Wilson's Warbler
___ Western Tanager+
___ American Tree Sparrow
___ Chipping Sparrow
___ Savannah Sparrow
___ Fox Sparrow
___ Lincoln's Sparrow
___ White-throated Sparrow+
___ Golden-crowned Sparrow
___ White-crowned Sparrow
___ Dark-eyed Junco
___ Lapland Longspur
___ Smith's Longspur
___ Snow Bunting
___ Red-winged Blackbird
___ Yellow-headed Blackbird+
___ Rusty Blackbird
___ Common Grackle+
___ Brown-headed Cowbird*
FRINGILLIDAE

___ Rosy Finch 
___ Pine Grosbeak
___ White-winged Crossbill
___ Common Redpoll
___ Hoary Redpoll
___ Pine Siskin
___ Eurasian Bullfinch+
___ Evening Grosbeak+

HYPOTHETICAL LIST

___ Pied-billed Grebe
___ Bar-tailed Godwit
___ Long-eared Owl
___ Red-throated Pipit
___ Cedar Waxwing
___ Warbling Vireo
___ Red Crossbill

Kessel, Brina. 1986.  Birds of Interior Alaska.  University of Alaska Museum.  
     Unpaginated.

Kessel, Brina. 1986.  Birds of Interior Alaska.  University of Alaska Museum. 
     Unpaginated.  Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online.  
     http://www.npwrc.usgs.govintalask.htm 
     (Version 03MAR00).