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Egg Islands

Egg Islands

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Valdez-Cordova (CA)
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 7 ft (2.13 m)
About

off S coast of Alaska, 6 mi. SE of Point Whitshed and 12 mi. S of Cordova, Malaspina Coastal Plain.

History of Egg Islands

Local name reported in 1905 by G. C. Martin (1906, pl. 12), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Birds Sighted Here

Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings

Glaucous-winged Gull, Dunlin, Canada Goose, Green-winged Teal, Black-bellied Plover, Northern Pintail, Black-legged Kittiwake, American Wigeon, Mallard, Western Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Snow Goose, Greater Scaup, Barrow's Goldeneye, Common Gull, Cackling Goose, Surfbird, Black Turnstone, Greater White-fronted Goose, Short-billed Dowitcher, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Greater Yellowlegs, Double-crested Cormorant, Lesser Scaup, Red-necked Phalarope, Bald Eagle, Semipalmated Plover, Sanderling, Northern Shoveler, Sandhill Crane, American Crow, Least Sandpiper, Buff-bellied Pipit, Long-billed Dowitcher, Savannah Sparrow, Bufflehead, Pigeon Guillemot, Whimbrel, Black Oystercatcher, Marbled Murrelet, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Hudsonian Godwit, Fox Sparrow, White-winged Scoter, Short-eared Owl, Lapland Longspur, Caspian tern, Red Knot, Herring Gull, American Robin, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Raven, Pacific Golden-Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Arctic Tern, Northern Harrier, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Baird's Sandpiper, Wilson's Snipe, Great Blue Heron, Common Redpoll, Trumpeter Swan, Gadwall, Spotted Sandpiper, Peregrine Falcon, Tree Swallow, Song Sparrow, Long-tailed Duck, Stilt Sandpiper, Wilson's Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Wandering Tattler, Parasitic Jaeger, Common Murre, Bonaparte's Gull, Iceland Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Golden Eagle, Merlin, Say's Phoebe, Horned Lark, Yellow Warbler