Pacific



CHECKLIST OF BIRDS SEEN DURING THE TOUR 'The Ring of Fire' 31 May - 22 June 2002 (CLICK HERE FOR CHECKLIST OF MAMMALS) Please note the following: First number = amount of days seen Second number = highest count per day (uses following guide) 1 = 1-4 2 = 5-9 3 = 10-99 4 = 100-999 5 = 1000-9999 6 = 10,000-99,999 7 = 100,000+

	Red-throated Diver 2 2 Gavia stellata Pacific Diver 1 1 Gavia pacifica Great Northern Diver 1 1 Gavia immer White-billed Diver 1 1 Gavia adamsii Little Grebe 1 2 Tachybaptus ruficollis Red-necked Grebe 1 1 Podiceps grisegena Short-tailed Albatross 2 1 Diomedea albatrus Laysan Albatross 7 5 Diomedea immutabilis Black-footed Albatross 2 1 Diomedea nigripes Northern Fulmar 10 5 Fulmarus glacialis Mottled Petrel 4 3 Pterodroma inexpectata Flesh-footed Shearwater 1 1 Puffinus carneipes Sooty Shearwater 1 1 Puffinus griseus Short-tailed Shearwater 12 6 Puffinus tenuirostris Leach’s Storm-Petrel 3 1 Oceanodroma leucorhoa Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel 8 4 Oceanodroma furcata Great Cormorant 1 2 Phalacrocorax carbo Temminck’s Cormorant (note 1) 1 3 Phalacrocorax capillatus Pelagic Cormorant 14 3 Phalacrocorax pelagicus Red-faced Cormorant 12 3 Phalacrocorax urile Grey Heron 3 1 Ardea cinerea Great Egret 1 1 Egretta alba Tundra Swan 1 4 Cygnus columbianus Canada Goose (note 2) 2 2 Branta canadensis Brent Goose (note 3) 1 3 Branta bernicla Mandarin Duck 1 2 Aix galericulata Eurasian Wigeon 1 2 Anas penelope American Wigeon 1 2 Anas americana Falcated Duck 1 2 Anas falcata Eurasian Teal (note 4) 2 2 Anas crecca Mallard 5 2 Anas platyrhynchos Spot-billed Duck 1 2 Anas poecilorhyncha Northern Pintail 2 4 Anas acuta Common Pochard 1 1 Aythya ferina Tufted Duck 1 1 Aythya fuligula Greater Scaup 4 2 Aythya marila Common Eider 2 3 Somateria mollissima Harlequin Duck 6 3 Histrionicus histrionicus Long-tailed Duck 1 3 Clangula hyemalis Black Scoter (note 5) 1 1 Melanitta americana White-winged Scoter (note 6) 3 1 Melanitta deglandi Red-breasted Merganser 3 3 Mergus serrator Goosander 1 1 Mergus merganser Black Kite 4 3 Milvus migrans White-tailed Eagle 3 1 Haliaeetus albicilla Bald Eagle 2 3 Haliaeetus leucocephalus Steller’s Sea-Eagle 2 1 Haliaeetus pelagicus Eastern Marsh Harrier 1 1 Circus spilonotus Common Buzzard 2 1 Buteo buteo Rough-legged Buzzard 3 1 Buteo lagopus Eurasian Hobby 2 1 Falco subbuteo Peregrine Falcon 1 1 Falco peregrinus Willow Ptarmigan 1 1 Lagopus lagopus Rock Ptarmigan 1 4 Lagopus mutus Sandhill Crane 1 1 Grus canadensis Red-crowned Crane (note 7) 2 2 Grus japonensis Moorhen 1 1 Gallinula chloropus Eurasian Coot 1 1 Fulica atra American Black Oystercatcher 1 1 Haematopus bachmani Pacific Golden Plover (note 8) 1 1 Pluvialis fulva Semipalmated Plover 1 1 Charadrius semipalmatus Little Ringed Plover 1 1 Charadrius dubius Lesser Sand Plover 1 3 Charadrius mongolus Latham’s Snipe 4 3 Gallinago hardwickii Common Snipe 1 2 Gallinago gallinago Bar-tailed Godwit 1 1 Limosa lapponica Whimbrel 1 2 Numenius phaeopus Greenshank 1 1 Tringa nebularia Wood Sandpiper 1 1 Tringa erythropus Common Sandpiper 1 1 Tringa hypoleucos Grey-tailed Tattler 1 1 Heterosceles brevipes Black Turnstone 1 1 Arenaria melanocephala Red Knot 1 1 Calidris canutus Sanderling 1 1 Calidris alba Least Sandpiper 1 3 Calidris minutilla Dunlin 1 4 Calidris alpina Rock Sandpiper 3 2 Calidris ptilocnemis Red-necked Phalarope 5 4 Phalaropus lobatus Grey Phalarope 3 1 Phalaropus fulicaria Arctic Skua 3 1 Stercorarius parasiticus Long-tailed Skua 4 3 Stercorarius longicaudus Black-tailed Gull 1 1 Larus crassirostris Common Gull (note 9) 2 3 Larus canus Glaucous-winged Gull 7 4 Larus glaucescens Glaucous Gull 3 4 Larus hyperboreus Slaty-backed Gull 12 4 Larus schistisagus Common Black-headed Gull 4 3 Larus ridibundus Sabine’s Gull 1 1 Larus sabini Red-legged Kittiwake 5 3 Rissa brevirostris Black-legged Kittiwake 12 4 Rissa tridactyla Common Tern 1 1 Sterna hirundo Arctic Tern 1 3 Sterna paradisaea Little Tern 1 1 Sterna albifrons Aleutian Tern 3 1 Sterna aleutica Common Guillemot 13 6 Uria aalge Brunnich’s Guillemot 13 6 Uria lomvia Pigeon Guillemot 11 4 Cepphus columba Marbled Murrelet 1 1 Brachyramphus marmoratus Long-billed Murrelet (note 10) 1 2 Brachyramphus perdix Ancient Murrelet 5 4 Synthliboramphus antiquus Cassin’s Auklet 1 2 Ptychoramphus aleuticus Parakeet Auklet 7 4 Cyclorrhynchus psittacula

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