An accidental spring vagrant (with only three records), this species has been regularly found during August in recent years. There are less than 10 records from mid-late summer (July and early August) with the vast majority of records during the rest of August and into early September. The final two weeks of August have the […]
Category: Birds of St. Paul Island
Least Sandpiper
An uncommon breeding species, the first spring arrivals are typically found during mid-May (earlier records do exist) with small numbers of migrants and local breeders seen through late August in most years. This species is most easily found the last week of May and first week of June when migrants and breeders overlap, while the […]
White-rumped Sandpiper
A rare breeder along the eastern Arctic Ocean coast in the state of Alaska that migrates through the central U.S. in spring and down the East Coast in fall. This species is very rare in western Alaska and should not be expected at any place or time. The existing records for the Pribilofs are of […]
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
This species has been recorded almost exclusively during the fall in the Pribilofs and it has been found to be nearly annual at that time in recent years. There is a single mid-July record, which is the only summer report of this species with all remaining records being from mid-August to late September, though the […]
Pectoral Sandpiper
An annual spring migrant in small numbers, this species becomes much more common in the Pribilofs during the late summer and fall. Spring migrants are rarely noted before May 25th and become rare again after June 5th. There are just a handful of mid-late June records, though this species does routinely show up during early-mid […]
Semipalmated Sandpiper
A very rare spring migrant that also has several late summer and early fall records, this species is most likely to be seen during spring from May 25th-June 5th. Southbound records from summer and fall remain the minority though the rate of detection has increased in recent years with a number of August records lately. […]
Black Oystercatcher
The seven Pribilof records are primarily from the late spring with a single mid-winter record. A short-range migrant on the mainland, this species is generally resident on the Aleutians. This is the presumptive source for local vagrants, which likely explains the lack of records for this species in the Pribilofs. […]
Black-bellied Plover
There are more than 15 records of this species from the Pribilofs, with late May accounting for about half making it the most likely time to observe this species in the islands. The additional four spring records are split between mid-May and early June, while there remain only six records that are not from the […]
European Golden-Plover
The one Pribilof record (St. Paul Island) was only the second record from Alaska and the rest of western North America. This late spring/early summer overshoot migrant was unexpected as its range is more typical for a fall vagrant to the Bering Sea region. […]
American Golden-Plover
This species is only a rare vagrant to the Pribilofs, despite nesting commonly in western Alaska, due to its migration route through the center of the state as opposed to the coast. Of the few records, a majority are from the spring when the species is easier to distinguish from its cousins, though there is […]