In our area, over 236 species of birds have been recorded through the spring, summer and early fall...
This includes many species of sea ducks, like the Harlequin & Golden Eye, the greater Pacific Loon, Arctic and Aleutian Terns, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels and Tufted and Horned Puffins. Red-faced Cormorants and thousands of Common Murres and Black-legged Kittiwakes are assembling near their nesting sites on Gull Island.
Birwatcher's Paradise
Common Eiders, Pigeon Guillemots, Marbled and perhaps Kittlitz’s Murrelets are out on the bay.
Spruce Grouse, Three-toed and Black-backed Woodpeckers are resident in spruce woods, along with Warblers, Gyrfalcons and Swallows, and of course there are always many Bald Eagles!
Sandhill Cranes flock to Homer for the summer, so be sure to keep an eye out during your Alaska Culture Experience in Homer.
Shorebirds include over 25 species and flocks numbering several thousand.
While bird watching in our area, also look for...
- Horned and Tuften Puffins
- Common Murres and Murrelets
- Great Blue Herons
- Pacific Loons
- Golden-Eye and Harlequin Ducks
- Hudsonian, Marbled and Bar-tailed Godwits
- Red Knots
- Surfbirds
- Red-necked Phalaropes
- Ruddy and Black Turnstones
- Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs
- Common Snipe
- Dunlins
- Short-billed and Long-billed Dowitchers
- Whimbrels
- Wandering Tattlers
- Black-Bellied, American Golden, Pacific Golden and Semipalmated Plover
- Western, Least, Pectoral, Spotted and Semipalmated Sandpipers
- Arctic and Aleutian Terns
- Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels
- Red-faced Cormorants
- Black-legged Kittiwakes
- and more
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