Site Report: Nome-Teller Hwy
Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)
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Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)
Highway through tundra.
Visits
- 2014-07-19: Drove up aways on the highway through foggy weather.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (19 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(19 records)
Class: Birds
(19 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(1 record)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca)
- Order: Pelicans
(3 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Pelagic Cormorant (Urile pelagicus)
- Family: Loons
- Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
- Order: Perching Birds
(10 records)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Common Raven (Corvus corax)
- Family: Longspurs and Snow Buntings
- Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
- Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla)
- Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)
- Family: Old World Flycatchers
- Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
- Family: Swallows
- Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
- Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia)
- Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(4 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Short-billed Gull (Larus brachyrhynchus)
- Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
- Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
- Family: Plovers
- Pacific Golden-Plover (Pluvialis fulva)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(1 record)
- Family: Grouse, Turkeys, and Allies
- Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)