Lynn E. Barber's Birding Site

2016 Day-by-day AK BIG YEAR

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2008 Day-by-Day New Birds
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What my ABA big year has done for my ABA "life list"
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2009 (not a big year)
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2010 Birds Seen (definitely not a big year)
2010 Bird Photos
2011 Birds Seen - Texas and beyond...
2012 - South Dakota
2012 - South Dakota - Day by Day
2012 - Where I birded, day by day
2012 - Photos of Some of the Birds Seen in SD - Jan-Mar
2012 - Photos of Some Birds Seen in SD - Apr-Jun
2012 Photos of Some Birds Seen in SD - July-Dec.
2013 South Dakota - Pennington County - Big Years "A" and "B"
2013 BIG YEAR B - Pennington Co. - Day-by-Day- begins July 1
2013 BIG YEAR A - Pennington Co. Day-by-day - begins January 1
2013 - Big Year C (Sept 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014)
2013 - where I birded (goes into 2014 for big year B)
2013 - photos, South Dakota
Honduras - February 2013
2014 Birds Seen in SD (Pennington Co.)
2014 - day by day
2014 - 2015 - Alaska!
2016 AK bird checklist
2016 Day-by-day AK BIG YEAR
2016 Where I birded
2017 - Birds Seen in AK (NOT a big year)
 The birds seen in 2016 on this page are listed in chronological order (more or less in the order actually seen). NOTE: Pictures of some of the birds seen in 2016, and a narrative account of the days birded, can be found at lynnbarberblog.com
Jan. 1-Kodiak
1. Bald Eagle
2. Common Pochard
3. Common Goldeneye
4. Mallard
5. Barrow's Goldeneye
6. Long-tailed Duck
7. Emperor Goose
8. Mew Gull
9. Glaucous-winged Gull
10. Black-billed Magpie
11. Crested Auklet
12. Northwestern Crow
13. Common Murre
14. Red-breasted Merganser
15. Black Scoter
16. Double-crested Cormorant
17. Snow Bunting
18. Bufflehead
19. Harlequin Duck
20. Song Sparrow
21. Black Turnstone
22. Rock Sandpiper
23. Surfbird
24. Common Merganser
25. Gadwall
26. Trumpeter Swan
27. Greater Scaup
28. American Wigeon
29. Canada Goose
30. Common Loon
31. Surf Scoter
32. Steller's Eider
33. Red Crossbill
34. Black-capped Chickadee
35. Belted Kingfisher
36. Red-necked Grebe
37. Common Raven
38. Horned Grebe
Jan. 2-Kodiak
39. Brown Creeper
40. Pine Grosbeak
41. Pine Siskin
42. Dark-eyed Junco
43. Black Oystercatcher
44. Pelagic Cormorant
45. Pigeon Guillemot
46. Black-legged Kittiwake
47. Redhead
48. Golden-crowned Kinglet
49. Sharp-shinned Hawk
50. Green-winged Teal
51. Northern Pintail
52. Pacific Wren
Jan. 3-Anchorage
53. Steller's Jay
Jan. 4-Juneau
54. Great Blue Heron
55. Northern Pygmy-Owl
Jan. 5-Juneau
56. Common Redpoll
57. Pacific Loon
58. Hairy Woodpecker
59. Spotted Towhee
60. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
61. Anna's Hummingbird
Jan. 6-Ketchikan
62. European Starling
63. Marbled Murrelet
64. Pied-billed Grebe
65. Western Grebe
Jan. 7-Ketchikan
66. Brandt's Cormorant
67. White-winged Scoter
68. Yellow-rumped Warber
69. White-crowned Sparrow
70. Northern Flicker
71. Varied Thrush
72. Lincoln's Sparrow
73. Fox Sparrow
74. Hooded Merganser
75. American Dipper
76. Thayer's Gull ("Iceland")
Jan. 8-Hoonah
77. Rusty Blackbird
78. Savannah Sparrow
79. Golden-crowned Sparrow
80. Brewer's Blackbird
Jan. 9-Juneau
81. Western Meadowlark
Jan. 10-Anchorage
82. Eurasian Collared-Dove
83. Bohemian Waxwing
84. Downy Woodpecker
85. Boreal Chickadee
Jan. 11-Anchorage
86. Northern Hawk Owl
87. Northern Shrike
88. American Three-toed Woodpecker
89. Red-breasted Nuthatch
90. Spruce Grouse
Jan. 12-Anchorage
91. Hoary Redpoll

Jan. 14-Anchorage
92. Gray Jay
Jan. 15-Anchorage
93. American Robin
Jan. 16-Anchorage
94. Cedar Waxwing
Jan. 17-Homer
95. Brambling
Jan. 18-Homer
96. American Tree Sparrow
97. White-throated Sparrow
98. Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Jan. 19-Homer
99. Red-throated Loon
100. Yellow-billed Loon
Jan. 23-Anchorage
101, Boreal Owl
Jan. 28-Willow area
102. Black-backed Woodpecker
Jan. 29-Anchorage
103. Red-winged Blackbird
Jan. 30-South of Anchorage
104. Northern Goshawk (Potter Marsh)
105. Townsend's Solitaire (Windy Pt.)
Feb. 3-Anchorage
106. Merlin
Feb. 6-Anchorage
107. Northern Saw-whet Owl
Feb. 13-Anchorage
108. Great Horned Owl
Feb. 16-Anchorage
109. Willow Ptarmigan
Feb. 20-Seward
110. Herring Gull
Feb. 25-Sitka
111. Wood Duck
112. Ring-necked Duck
Feb. 26-Ketchikan
113. American Coot
Feb. 27-Ketchikan
114. Killdeer
115. California Gull
Feb. 28-Juneau
116. Long-billed Dowitcher
117. Snow Goose
Feb. 29-Juneau
118. Lesser Scaup
Mar. 9-Palmer
119. Northern Harrier
Mar. 12-Homer
120. Northern Shoveler
121. Eurasian Wigeon
122. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Mar. 14-Portage
123. Western Screech-Owl
Mar. 25-Kenai
124. Short-eared Owl
Apr. 1-Homer
125. Dunlin
Apr. 4-Anchorage
126. Tundra Swan
Apr. 8-Hawk watch site 120 mi. N of Anchorage
127. Red-tailed (Harlan's) Hawk
128. Golden Eagle
129. Rough-legged Hawk
Apr. 13-Anchorage
130. Greater Yellowlegs
Apr. 15-Anchorage
131. Sandhill Crane
Apr. 16-Gunsight Mt. (Hawk watch)
132. Lapland Longspur
Apr. 18-Anchorage
133. Wilson's Snipe
Apr. 24-Anchorage
134. Orange-crowned Warbler
135. Arctic Tern
136. Bonaparte's Gull
Apr. 25-Delta Junction
137. American Kestrel
138, American Pipit
139. Sharp-tailed Grouse
140. White-fronted Goose
April 26 - Delta Junction
141. Ruffed Grouse
142. Hammond's Flycatcher
April 27 - Anchorage
143. Canvasback
144. Lesser Yellowlegs
April 28 - Anchorage
145. Short-billed Dowitcher
146. Hudsonian Godwit
April 30 - Juneau
147. Sooty Grouse
148. Red-breasted Sapsucker
149. Vaux's Swift
May 1 - Juneau
150. Cinnamon Teal
151. Rufous Hummingbird
152. Cackling Goose
153. Least Sandpiper
154. Western Sandpiper
155. Black-bellied Plover
May 2 - Ketchikan
156. Band-tailed Pigeon
157. Townsend's Warbler
158. Tree Swallow
159. Violet-green Swallow
160. Barn Swallow
161. Hermit Thrush
May 3 - Ketchikan
162. White-winged Crossbill
163. Semipalmated Plover
164. Spotted Sandpiper
165. Wilson's Warbler
166. Caspian Tern
May 6 - Gustavus
167. Semipalmated Sandpiper
168. Whimbrel
May 9 - Anchorage
169. Red-necked Phalarope
170. Osprey
May 12 - Homer
171. Marbled Godwit
172. Wandering Tattler
173. Pacific Golden-Plover
174. Peregrine Falcon
May 13 - Anchor Point
175. Rhinoceros Auklet
176. Parasitic Jaeger
177. Pectoral Sandpiper
178. Aleutian Tern
May 15 - Adak
179. Rock Ptarmigan
180. Tufted Duck
181. Gyrfalcon
May 16 - Adak
182. Common Eider
183. Bar-tailed Godwit
184. Kittlitz's Murrelet
185. Short-tailed Shearwater
186. Laysan Albatross
187. Northern Fulmar
188. Common Snipe
189. Ruff
190. Arctic Loon
191. Ancient Murrelet
May 17 - Adak
192. Tufted Puffin
May 18 - Adak
193. Red-faced Cormorant
May 19 - Adak
194. Ruddy Turnstone
May 20 - Turnagain Pass area
195. Yellow Warbler
May 20 - Kasilof Beach area
196. Sanderling
May 21 - north of Kenai
197. Northern Waterthrush
198. Swainson's Thrush
May 22 - St. Paul Island
199. Wood Sandpiper
200. Red-legged Kittiwake
201. Long-toed Stint
202. Common Greenshank
203. Slaty-backed Gull
204. Lesser Sand-Plover
May 23 - St. Paul Island
205. Parakeet Auklet
206. Least Auklet
207. King Eider
208. Horned Puffin
209. Thick-billed Murre
210. Common Sandpiper
211. Red Phalarope
212. Glaucous Gull
May 24 - St. Paul Island
213. Northern Wheatear
214. Siberian Rubythroat
215. Curlew Sandpiper
May 26 - Anchorage
216. Franklin's Gull
May 27 - Gambell
217. White Wagtail
218. Terek Sandpiper
May 28 - Gambell
219. Dovekie
220. Black Guillemot
221. Common Ringed Plover
May 29 - Gambell
222. Brant
223. White-tailed Eagle
224. Red-necked Stint
May 31 - Gambell
225. Eye-browed Thrush
June 1 - Gambell
226. Red-throated Pipit
227. Pomarine Jaeger
June 3 - Nome
228. Gray-cheeked Thrush
229. Arctic Warbler
230. Bluethroat
231. Blackpoll Warbler
232. Cliff Swallow
233. Long-tailed Jaeger
234. Bristle-thighed Curlew
235. American Golden-Plover
236. Baird's Sandpiper
237. Eastern Yellow Wagtail
238. Bank Swallow
June 4 - Nome
239. Spectacled Eider
240. Sabine's Gull
241. Say's Phoebe
June 5 - Nome
242. Horned Lark
243. Red Knot
June 6 - Anchorage
244. Blue-winged Teal
June 7 - Ketchikan
245. Brown-headed Cowbird
246. Pacific-slope Flycatcher
June 8 - Ketchikan
247. Common Yellowthroat
248. Warbling Vireo
249. Olive-sided Flycatcher
250. Barred Owl
June 9 - Hyder
251. Chipping Sparrow
252, MacGillivray's Warbler
253. Western Tanager
254. Willow Flycatcher
255. American Redstart
256. Alder Flycatcher
257. Eastern Kingbird
258. Western Wood-Pewee
259. Veery
260. Least Flycatcher
June 10 - Hyder
261. American Crow
262. Bullock's Oriole
263. Black-headed Grosbeak
264. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
265. Black Swift
266. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
June 11 - Hyder
267. Cassin's Vireo
June 12 - Hyder
268. Magnolia Warbler
269. Black-throated Gray Warbler
270. Swainson's Hawk
June 15 - Juneau
271. Red-eyed Vireo
272. Tennessee Warbler
June 22 - Delta Junction
273. Upland Sandpiper
June 22 - Chicken
274. Mountain Bluebird
June 23 - Fairbanks
275. Solitary Sandpiper
June 23 - Kenny Lake
276. Ruddy Duck
June 24 - Denali Highway
277. Smith's Longspur
June 29 - Homer to Dutch Harbor ferry trip
278. Sooty Shearwater
279. Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
280. Black-footed Albatross
June 30 - Homer to Dutch Harbor ferry trip
281. Cassin's Auklet
July 1 - Homer to Dutch Harbor ferry trip
282. Whiskered Auklet
July 2 - Dutch Harbor charter boat trip
283. Short-tailed Albatross (photos will be on blog eventually)
July 4 - Wasilla area (Knik/Goose Bay)
284. Wilson's Phalarope
July 5 - Barrow
285. Snowy Owl
July 12 - Nome
286. Eastern Phoebe
July 14 - Ketchikan
287. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
July 15 - Haines
288. Sora
August 4 - Between Delta Jcn & Tok
289. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
August 20 - Ketchikan
290. Ring-billed Gull
August 27 - Summit Lake area (between Anchorage and Kenai)
291. White-tailed Ptarmigan
August 31 - Gambell
292. Gray-tailed Tattler
September 3 - Gambell
293. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
September 7 - Gambell
294. Siberian Accentor
September 14 - St. Paul
295. Jack Snipe
September 23 - St. Paul
296. Sky Lark 
September 24 - St. Paul
297. Red-flanked Bluetail 
October 2 - Kenai Peninsula County
298. Great Gray Owl
October 8 - Barrow
299. Ross's Gull 
October 16 - Juneau
300. Palm Warbler
October 18 - Ketchikan
301. House Finch
October 22 - Sitka
302. Tropical Kingbird 
November 7 - Sitka
303. Cape May Warbler 
November 18 - Petersburg
304. Lewis's Woodpecker 
November 28 - Gambell
305. McKay's Bunting
306. Pine Bunting 
December 5 - Ketchikan
307. Swamp Sparrow 
 
 

 

 
 

I know this will be a very challenging Big Year!