Mat-Su Birders

2020 MatSu Big Day Count

 Saturday, May 16th and Sunday, May 17th. 

We had 6 teams reporting their results with a total of 82 species.

In order of number of species seen they were:

Snow Goose Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan American Wigeon Mallard Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow’s Goldeneye Common Merganser Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Spruce Grouse

Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Northern Goshawk Sandhill Crane Spotted Sandpiper   Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Hudsonian Godwit Baird’s Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte’s Gull Mew Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Arctic Tern Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker American 3-toed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Merlin Olive-sided Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Gray Jay Black-billed Magpie Common Raven

Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper American Dipper Ruby-crowned Kinglet Swainson’s Thrush Hermit Thrush   American Robin Varied Thrush European Starling Northern Waterthrush Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Wilson’s Warbler American Tree Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Rusty Blackbird Pine Grosbeak Common Redpoll

• 

• 

• 

• 

Learn about the best birding sites in the beautiful Mat-Su Valley HERE.