Bird Species List From Controller Bay - May 8th to May 20th, 2022

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Below is the complete list of confirmed bird species we encountered while at Controller Bay: 


Greater White-fronted Goose 

Tule White-fronted Goose

Pacific Black Brant

Dusky Canada Goose

Cackling Goose 

Snow Goose

Trumpeter Swan 

Mallard 

Northern Pintail

American Widgeon 

Northern Shoveler

Green-winged Teal 

Scaup

Long-tailed Duck

Bufflehead

Common Merganser

Gadwall

Surf Scoter

Ring-necked Duck

Double-crested Cormorant 

Northern Harrier 

Bald Eagle 

Sandhill Crane

Black-bellied Plover

American Golden Plover

Semipalmated Plover 

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Whimbrel

Bristle-thighed Curlew

Hudsonian Godwit

Marbled Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Black Turnstone

Red Knot 

Pectoral Sandpiper

Dunlin

Long-billed Dowitcher

Short-billed Dowitcher 

Wilson's Snipe 

Red-necked Phalarope

Raven

Arctic Tern 

Caspian Tern 

Aleutian Tern

Mew Gull 

Bonaparte's Gull

Parasitic Jaeger 

Merlin

Short-eared Owl 

Tree Swallow 

Savannah Sparrow 

American Robin

Rufous Hummingbird 



Greater Scaup and Buffleheads

Mallard, Pintail, Widgeon, and one Dowitcher in the back of the crowd

Sandhill Crane

American Golden Plover

Double-crested Cormorant 

Red Knots, Ruddy Turnstones, and a few Dunlin

Red-necked Phalarope

White-fronted Geese

Parasitic Jaeger 

Snow Geese and a few Cackling Geese

Cackling Geese 

Red Knots

Dunlin 

Pacific Black Brant 

Bald Eagle 

Trumpeter Swan

Hudsonian Godwit 

Dusky Canada Geese 

Least Sandpiper 

White-fronted Geese and Cackling Geese

Black-bellied Plover

Pectoral Sandpiper 

Whimbrel 

Bristle-thighed Curlew

Dowitcher 

Semi-palmated Plover 




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