Information About

King Salmon

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 41' 17.999" N,
156 ° 39' 41" W

Region

Bristol Bay

Elevation

72 ft (21.95 m)

Fatalities

1

King Salmon in Detail.

Getting There


About

population 227, on the right bank of Naknek River, on Alaska Peninsula, 14 mi. SE of Naknek; Bristol Bay Low.


History

the King Salmon post office was established in 1949 at King Salmon Air Force Base.

Fatalities

On September 7, 2024, 1 person died while flying, helicopter piloting. Read More

Birds Sighted Here

Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings

Long-tailed Duck, Northern Pintail, Tundra Swan, Common Merganser, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper, Glaucous-winged Gull, Red-breasted Merganser, Bald Eagle, Mallard, American Wigeon, Common Goldeneye, Short-billed Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plover, Greater White-fronted Goose, Greater Scaup, Common Redpoll, Sandhill Crane, Canada Goose, Lapland Longspur, Red-necked Phalarope, Long-billed Dowitcher, Black Scoter, Common Gull, Tree Swallow, Green-winged Teal, Rusty Blackbird, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Hudsonian Godwit, Cackling Goose, Aleutian Tern, Common Raven, Arctic Tern, White-crowned Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Black-capped Chickadee, Bank Swallow, American Robin, Greater Yellowlegs, Bonaparte's Gull, Least Sandpiper, Wilson's Snipe, Ruddy Turnstone, Red-throated Loon, Redhead, King Eider, Whimbrel, Hoary Redpoll, Wilson's Warbler, Bar-tailed Godwit, Pine Grosbeak, McKay's Bunting, Canvasback, Harlequin Duck, Black-billed Magpie, Savannah Sparrow, Trumpeter Swan, Barrow's Goldeneye, Semipalmated Plover, Parasitic Jaeger, Double-crested Cormorant, Boreal Chickadee, Snow Bunting, Northern Shoveler, Red-necked Grebe, Red Knot, Lesser Yellowlegs, Glaucous Gull, Common Loon, Varied Thrush, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Orange-crowned Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Gadwall, Fox Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Bufflehead, Marbled Godwit, Black Turnstone, Pacific Loon, Gray Jay, Lincoln's Sparrow, Willow Ptarmigan, Horned Grebe, Rock Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, Long-tailed Jaeger, Herring Gull, Northern Harrier, Merlin, Alder Flycatcher, Northern Shrike, Arctic Warbler, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Buff-bellied Pipit, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Waterthrush, Yellow Warbler, Snow Goose, Baikal Teal, Eurasian Wigeon, Steller's Eider, Hooded Merganser, Spruce Grouse, American Coot, Pectoral Sandpiper, Red Phalarope, Sabine's Gull, Yellow-billed Loon, Osprey, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Goshawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Great Horned Owl, Short-eared Owl, Boreal Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Belted Kingfisher, American Three-toed Woodpecker, Horned Lark, Violet-green Swallow, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Common Starling, Townsend's Solitaire, Pine Siskin, White-throated Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird