This is the rarest Tringa found in the Bering Sea region with 3 from St. Paul Island and fewer than 10 records for Alaska. Most records from Alaska occurred in fall in the Aleutians during September, with the Pribilof records being from before this period, as well as representing the latest record in the region […]
Category: Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies (Scolopacidae)
Wilson’s Phalarope
This species has been recorded once during late May in the Pribilofs (St. Paul Island) and, with no other records in this region of Alaska, it is hard to understand if this fits a pattern or not. Individuals are found on occasion in south-central and central Alaska during the late spring and migrants are seen […]
Red-necked Phalarope
An abundant local breeder on St. Paul Island (and less commonly on the other Pribilof Islands), this species can be easily found from mid-May through early September. It is rarely recorded before the 15th of May but becomes quite common by May 20th in most years, with peak numbers occurring in early June. It nests […]
Red Phalarope
This species is regular, but fluctuates greatly in numbers during the spring with individuals not observed regularly until at least May 20th. Often seen in small numbers during this period, with favorable weather condition concentrations in the upper hundreds or low thousands may be observed during mid and late May and into early June. More […]
Western Sandpiper
A regular spring migrant best seen during that season from May 20th-31st, individuals are occasionally noted, and very rarely arrive, during early June with perhaps a record per year during the summer months from late June to late July. This species becomes much more common in the fall when larger numbers are noted regularly starting […]
Short-billed Dowitcher
A regular, though uncommon, species that regularly overshoots during spring migration ending up in the Pribilofs. It is best found during the final 10 days of May. This species is only rarely found earlier in May or into June, with a handful of late June and early July records being the only early summer sightings, […]
Long-billed Dowitcher
This is a rare, but potentially overlooked, spring migrant with records scattered across much of the period from mid-May to mid-June during that period where the peak of sightings are mostly clustered between May 25th and June 5th. In the Pribilofs, this is predominantly a southbound migrant with a few late June and early July […]
Jack Snipe
The records from St. Paul Island account for well over half of all North American records with this species appearing nearly annually in the 2010s during September. The lone spring record and the unknown date record remain outliers, while the vast majority of records have been found in recent years during the first half of […]
Solitary Snipe
This species has been recorded twice in the fall during September on St. Paul Island. These arrival dates follow similar patterns to other Asian snipe species found in the Pribilofs but since this species has only one further record from North America during late May and given its low density population and poorly known habits […]
Pin-tailed Snipe
The first documented record from the Pribilofs was an individual in late summer-early fall on St. Paul Island; however, there exists a hypothetical record from spring in late May, which is the time frame for most (if not all) other documented records from western Alaska. There is also a second record from late September in […]