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Approximate numbers of migrant birds that move between Asia and Alaska

  Number Percent of Total
Waterfowl 561,000 8.5%
Loons 55,000 0.8%
Shorebirds/Gulls 1,226,000 18.5%
Landbirds 4,745,000 71.8%
Raptors/Owls 25,000 0.4%
Totals 6,612,000 100%

 

Waterfowl Shorebirds/Gulls
King eider 200,000 Dunlin 500,000
Brant 10,000 Sharp-tailed sandpiper 25,000
Steller's eider 10,000 Bar-tailed godwit 135,000
Emperor goose 5,000 Ruddy turnstone 15,000
Mallard 100,000 Pectoral sandpiper 200,000
Pintail 100,000 Pacific golden-plover 40,000
Eurasian widgeon 1,000 Buff-breasted sandpiper 3,000
Long-tailed duck 100,000 Western sandpiper 105,000
Red-breasted merganser 10,000 Baird's sandpiper 3,000
Harlequin duck 20,000 Red knot 37,500
Common eider 5,000 Long-billed dowitcher 125,000
Loons Rock sandpiper 12,500
Yellow-billed loon 5,000 Aleutian tern 10,000
Red-throated loon 10,000 Glaucous gull 10,000
Pacific loon 40,000 Glaucous-winged gull 5,000
Landbirds Raptors/Owls
Arctic warbler 2,700,000 Gyrfalcon 5,000
Bluethroat 100,000 Peregrin falcon 5,000
White wagtail 10,000 Snowy owl 5,000
Eastern yellow wagtail 1,400,000 Short-eared owl 10,000
Northern wheatear 300,000  
Red-throated pipit 5,000
Redpoll species 120,000
Lapland longspur 100,000
Snow bunting 10,000
 

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