A regular visitor during the winter and spring, this species is found only sporadically during the summer and rarely in the fall. It is one of the few bird species found most reliably on St. George Island in the Pribilofs, owing to that island’s population of Brown Lemming (Lemmus trimucronatus), which is a major food […]
Category: Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Short-eared Owl
A regular spring migrant best found from May 20th-June 5th, this species is much rarer at other seasons in the Pribilofs. Spring records can occur from the beginning of May through mid-June, while most summer records are from early in the season and in some cases are lingering birds from the spring period. This species […]
Boreal Owl
Perhaps the most recorded bird species in the Pribilofs that has been seen by the fewest number of people in recent years, there are at least nine records of this species from the islands (all from St. Paul Island), with most of them from the 1900s and 1910s. The known records come from nearly the […]
Northern Saw-whet Owl
A small migrant owl, this species has been located once in the Pribilofs (St. Paul Island) during late fall and future records are quite unlikely. It is most likely to occur in late fall or early winter or again in late winter during their movement periods; however, coverage is very limited at these times. […]
Northern Boobook
The only sighting of this species is from St. Paul Island in the early fall (late August/early September). Future records are highly unlikely, and if they do occur the best time is unknown, though presumably it is fall. There remain only two records of this species for North America and at the time of those […]