A year-round resident with reduced numbers during mid-winter, especially in heavy ice years, this species is nonetheless always present around the islands and can be found on nesting cliffs throughout the year. The fewer total birds present during the winter months is noticeable with the comparatively large numbers present during the spring, summer, and fall. […]
Category: Cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae)
Pelagic Cormorant
A common spring and winter resident, which is found more rarely during summer and fall, this species can often be quite hard to see during some parts of the year. Small numbers are regularly encountered through the spring (until late June or early July), but numbers are often times quite small and this species can […]
Double-crested Cormorant
This is a rare spring, summer, and fall wanderer to the Pribilofs, with more than 20 records since the 1980s. This species is most likely to be found in early summer from June 20th-July 15th, with scattered records in spring from late May and June and during the late summer and fall into October. There […]