Rare Birds in Alaska
Our list for Alaska has 56 rare birds recorded regularly there: 8 residents, 5 summer visitors, 30 passage migrants and 13 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Alaska in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 56, most common first
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottosScarceRare21–26 cm
Taiga Bean GooseAnser fabalisPassage migrantRare68–88 cmRegularly May–Jun
ChukarAlectoris chukarResidentRare32–38 cmRegularly Jun–Aug
SmewMergellus albellusPassage migrantRare38–44 cmRegularly May
Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalisPassage migrantRare20–24 cmRegularly Jun
Virginia RailRallus limicolaScarceRare20–27 cm
CuckooCuculus canorusScarceRare32–34 cmRegularly Jun
Steller's Sea-eagleHaliaeetus pelagicusPassage migrantRare85–105 cmRegularly May
Cinnamon TealSpatula cyanopteraResidentRare36–43 cmRegularly May
Turkey VultureCathartes auraResidentRare62–81 cmRegularly Jun
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made