Alaska 7/12-24/2019

All photos are © Marshall Faintich

Brooks Falls, July 24

This tour was just an incredible adventure. Alice and I have concluded that it would be difficult for any future trips to equal or exceed this one. I ended up taking more than 8,000 wildlife photos, including 71 avian species (14 life birds) counting four probable avian species, and 14 mammalian species, not counting the beaver lodge.

Mammalian Species

Brown Bear
Moose
Caribou
Dark morph, Red Fox
Dall's Sheep
Snowshoe Hare
Arctic Ground Squirrel
Red Squirrel
Porcupine
Sea Otter
Steller's Sea Lion
Harbor Seal
Orca
Humpback Whale

Avian Species

Red-necked Grebe(?)
Double-crested Cormorant
Red-faced Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Tundra Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Mallard
American Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Common Merganser
Black Scoter
Blue-winged Teal(?)
Green-winged Teal
Barrow's Goldeneye
Golden Eagle
Bald Eagle
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Gyrfalcon
Merlin
Willow Ptarmigan

Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs(?)
Black Oystercatcher
Mew Gull
Herring Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Arctic Tern
Horned Puffin
Tufted Puffin
Marbled Murrelet
Pigeon Guillemot
Common Murre
Parakeet Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Rock Pigeon
Belted Kingfisher
Rufous Hummingbird
Alder Flycatcher
Steller's Jay
Canada Jay
Northwestern Crow
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven

Tree Swallow(?)
Cliff Swallow
Bank Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Varied Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Bohemian Waxwing
Wilson's Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskin
Pine Grosbeak


Click on the following links to see additional photos:

Mammals
Puffins
Ducks
Gulls and Terns
Raptors
Seabirds and Sandpipers
Warblers
Woodland species


Jump to Fairbanks; July 13
Jump to Nenana and Denali National Park; July 14
Jump to Kantishna Roadhouse in Denali National Park, July 15
Jump to Talkeetna; July 16
Jump to Talkeetna and Alyeska; July 17
Jump to Alyeska and river rafting; July 18
Jump to Seward and Fox Island; July 19
Jump to boat trip from Fox Island; July 20
Jump to Fox Island; July 20
Jump to Fox Island and return to Seward; July 21
Jump to Brooks Falls; July 22
Jump to Gold Creek Lodge; July 23
Jump to Brooks Falls; July 24
Jump to species lists and additional photos


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