Bird List
A complete list of birds seen on or from our property.
- Common loon
- Red-throated loon
- Great blue heron
- Tundra swan
- Trumpeter swan
- Greater white-fronted goose
- Snow goose
- Canada goose
- Mallard
- Northern pintail
- Green-winged teal
- American wigeon
- Barrow’s goldeneye
- Harlequin duck
- Common merganser
- Red-breasted merganser
- Northern goshawk
- Sharp-shinned hawk
- Red-tailed hawk (Harlan’s)
- Golden eagle
- Bald eagle
- Gyrfalcon
- Merlin
- Peregrine falcon
- Spruce grouse
- Sandhill crane
- Wilson’s snipe
- Lesser yellowlegs
- Spotted sandpiper
- Solitary sandpiper
- Long-tailed jaeger
- Glaucous-winged gull
- Herring gull
- Mew gull
- Bonaparte’s gull
- Arctic tern
- Great horned owl
- Northern hawk-owl
- Boreal owl
- Great gray owl
- Belted kingfisher
- Northern flicker (yellow-shafted)
- Hairy woodpecker
- Downy woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Three-toed woodpecker
- Olive-sided flycatcher
- Say’s phoebe
- Alder flycatcher
- Hammond’s flycatcher
- Horned lark
- Tree swallow
- Violet-green swallow
- Bank swallow
- Cliff swallow
- Gray jay
- Black-billed magpie
- Common raven
- Black-capped chickadee
- Boreal chickadee
- Brown creeper
- American dipper
- Ruby-crowned kinglet
- Arctic warbler
- Winter wren
- Mountain bluebird
- American robin
- Hermit thrush
- Varied thrush
- Swainson’s thrush
- Gray-cheeked thrush
- Townsend’s solitaire
- American pipit
- Bohemian waxwing
- Orange-crowned warbler
- Yellow warbler
- Yellow-rumped warbler (myrtle)
- Blackpoll warbler
- Northern waterthrush
- Wilson’s warbler
- Rusty blackbird
- American tree sparrow
- White-crowned sparrow
- Golden-crowned sparrow
- Fox sparrow (red)
- Song sparrow
- Dark-eyed junco
- Lapland longspur
- Snow bunting
- Pine grosbeak
- Hoary redpoll
- Common redpoll
- Pine siskin
- White-winged crossbill
- Gray-crowned rosy-finch
Other birds of interest that have been found within a few miles of here; almost any of these birds might eventually join the property list.
- Long-billed dowitcher
- Wandering tattler
- Red-necked phalarope
- Short-eared owl
- Black-backed woodpecker
- Ruffed grouse
- Sharp-tailed grouse
- Willow ptarmigan
- Rock ptarmigan
- White-tailed ptarmigan
- Northern shrike
- Northern wheatear
- Smith’s longspur
- Lincoln’s sparrow
- Savannah sparrow
What Guests Are Saying
"Not sure if it was the beautiful cabin, the comfortable beds with warm Hudson blankets, the cool June night or the calming rush of the river, but we enjoyed a wonderful night's sleep here."
- TripAdvisor member LadyLibertine814, New York, July 9, 2013
Get In Touch
Denali Highway Cabins & Tours
HC02 Box 7292
Paxson (Gakona), Alaska 99586-9205
907-987-0977
Office hours: 7 am to 7 pm Alaska time
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