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Alaska eBird Checklist S141574890

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Location Shemya Island--Eareckson AS (restricted access)
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Owner Zak Pohlen

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  1
  • Distance:  39 km

Checklist Comments

Birds seen while conducting wildlife surveys for the USFWS.

Overcast with a cold breeze clearing up to sunny in the afternoon. Great visibility and probably the best day for tubenoses abundance I have had here. Nice flight of STTS and NOFU with large flocks of both around a pod of Killer Whales off North Point. Didn't check the old Navy site due to ongoing construction. Queen's Match delivered some good birds with Rustic Bunting and Eyebrowed Thrush. Grand Canyon was full of Brambling and some RUBU. West Approach had an Eyebrowed Thrush and a few RUBUs too. Intertidal/Nearshore Waters Survey today.

North wind switching to west, than southwest in evening. Possibly bringing new birds tomorrow?

Submitted from eBird for Android, version 2.13

Totals

47
Species Observed
+3 other taxa, 6,750 individuals
3
Species with Photos

Observations

  1. Emperor Goose

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Both off Sea Lion Point

  2. Cackling Goose (Aleutian)

    Number observed:  220

  3. Northern Shoveler

    Number observed:  9

  4. Eurasian Wigeon

    Number observed:  17

    Details

    Island tally

  5. American Wigeon

    Number observed:  1

  6. Mallard

    Number observed:  15

  7. Northern Pintail

    Number observed:  8

    Details

    Six still on lagoon and two on North Beach Bench

  8. Green-winged Teal (Eurasian)

    Number observed:  9

  9. Tufted Duck

    Number observed:  13

    Details

    All 13 on laundry lake

  10. Greater Scaup

    Number observed:  2

  11. Common Eider (Pacific)

    Number observed:  273

  12. Harlequin Duck

    Number observed:  177

  13. Bufflehead

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Hen still on Laundry Lake with Tufted Duck

  14. Common Merganser (Eurasian)

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Pair on Middle Lake

  15. Red-breasted Merganser

    Number observed:  1

  16. Pacific Golden-Plover

    Number observed:  8

  17. Red-necked Phalarope

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    North end of Upper Lake

    Media

  18. Wood Sandpiper

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    One skulker on Middle Marsh and one displaying over Laundry Lake

  19. Rock Sandpiper (Aleutian)

    Number observed:  10

  20. Parasitic Jaeger

    Number observed:  2

  21. Tufted Puffin

    Number observed:  101

  22. Horned Puffin

    Number observed:  25

  23. Pigeon Guillemot

    Number observed:  22

  24. Common Murre

    Number observed:  53

  25. Ancient Murrelet

    Number observed:  47

  26. Ross's Gull

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Continuing since May 22. Foraging in a recently excavated ditch to run electrical lines.

    Media

  27. Black-legged Kittiwake

    Number observed:  14

  28. Glaucous-winged Gull

    Number observed:  275

  29. American Herring x Glaucous-winged Gull (hybrid)

    Number observed:  1

  30. Aleutian Tern

    Number observed:  2

  31. Arctic Tern

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Alcan Harbor

  32. Red-throated Loon

    Number observed:  6

  33. Common Loon

    Number observed:  3

  34. Laysan Albatross

    Number observed:  30

  35. Northern Fulmar

    Number observed:  1800

  36. Short-tailed Shearwater

    Number observed:  2500

  37. Sooty/Short-tailed Shearwater

    Number observed:  500

  38. Red-faced Cormorant

    Number observed:  47

  39. Pelagic Cormorant

    Number observed:  108

  40. cormorant sp.

    Number observed:  87

  41. Eyebrowed Thrush

    Number observed:  3

    Details

    Continuing numbers. One by building 700, one by the steps, and one at Queen's Match.

  42. Gray-streaked Flycatcher

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Laundry Lake. Earliest Shemya spring record

    Media

  43. Bohemian Waxwing

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    Two! Flushed off the side of the road by the lagoon. Continuing from May 23 on the other side of the island? These are the only spring records for Shemya, with the only other record being of two birds on 10/10/2010. Grayish cinnamon forehead and grayish malar suggest B. g. centralasiae.

  44. Siberian Pipit

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Grand Canyon

  45. Brambling

    Number observed:  235

    Details

    Continuing numbers on the island. Most in the intertidal

  46. Redpoll (Common)

    Number observed:  12

  47. Lapland Longspur

    Number observed:  60

  48. Snow Bunting

    Number observed:  9

  49. Rustic Bunting

    Number observed:  10

    Details

    Continuing numbers

  50. Song Sparrow (sanaka/maxima)

    Number observed:  20
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