Waterfowl
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Lesser Canada Goose
Taverner’s Cackling Goose
Aleutian Cackling Goose*
Cackling Goose**
Black Brant***
Tundra Swan****
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
King Eider
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow’s Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser

 

Seabirds
Northern Fulmar
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Bonaparte’s Gull
Mew Gull
Herring Gull
Slaty-backed Gull Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous Gull
Sabine’s Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Red-legged Kittiwake
Ivory Gull
Arctic Tern
Aleutian Tern
Common Murre
Thick-billed Murre
Black Guillemot
Pigeon Guillemot
Cassin’s Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Least Auklet
Whiskered Auklet
Crested Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Horned Puffin
Tufted Puffin

Owls
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl

Cranes
Sandhill Crane

Shorebirds
Black-bellied Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Black Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Bar-tailed Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Snipe
Red-necked phalarope
Red phalarope

Waterbirds
Red-throated Loon
Arctic Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe

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*Except in the Semidi Islands

**Except no egg gathering anywhere in Alaska

***Except no egg gathering in the Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta and North Slope

****Except no hunting or egg gathering in Units 9(D) and 10

Migratory Bird Species Open for Harvest

You may harvest birds or gather eggs from the following species within all open regions. All bird species not listed are closed! Some bird species were excluded from the list purely on the basis of current population concerns, and will be reopened if the population status improves. Underlined species have links to additional information.