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Streams and Brooks

12 Bird Species

Alder Flycatcher

This species is nearly identical to Willow Flycatcher. Alder and Willow Flycatchers were once considered the same species, Traill's Flycatcher. The two are best distinguished by voice. Upperparts are olive, with darker grayish tones on head. The blackish wings show two whitish wing bars and fairly lo more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

American Dipper

Dark, plump aquatic songbird with stout tail and short wings. Adults slate-colored, with brown cast on head. Pale legs and small, dark bill. Juveniles have paler belly and especially throat, with lighter bill and white scalloping on the wings. Belly may have light streaks. more...

Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 23 cm

Cinnamon Teal

This small, dabbling duck has a proportionally large bill. It typically travels in pairs or small groups. Male: Bright chestnut overall, darker on folded wings. The eye is red in all seasons. Pale blue upperwing coverts and green speculum are sometimes visible at rest. In flight, these features produ more...

Length: 36 cm Wingspan: 61 cm

Common Black Hawk

Blackish overall with an orange-yellow cere and long legs. Some birds show white at the lores. The short black tail has a broad white band in the middle and a fine white terminal band. Juvenile: More brownish. The pale breast has dark streaks. The whitish tail has many wavy dark bands and a broader s more...

Length: 43 cm Wingspan: 122 cm

Common Sandpiper

This Eurasian species strongly resembles Spotted Sandpiper in appearance and behavior. Alternate Adult: Dark brown above, with fine black streaks. The tertails are barred with black. The sides of the upper breast match the color of the upperparts and are also finely streaked with black. The remainder more...

Length: 18 cm Wingspan: 38 cm

Gray Wagtail

A rare visitor to Alaska. Alternate Adult male is similar to Eastern Yellow Wagtail, with rich yellow underparts, black wings, and grayish head, but note gray back, relatively long tail, clean wings lacking wing bars, black throat patch, yellow rump, and pink legs. Basic male lacks throat patch; fema more...

Length: 20 cm Wingspan: 26 cm

Great Egret

The largest egret in North America; has a very long neck and long legs with all-white plumage. Breeding adult: white head, pale iris, light greenish lores. Long, yellow-orange bill. Long, white neck with plumes at base. Slim white body with long white plumes hanging from back and long, dark legs. Juv more...

Length: 99 cm Wingspan: 130 cm

Green Kingfisher

A small green and white kingfisher of Southern Texas. Adult male has green head and back, broad white collar, white belly, green-and-rufous breastband, white spots on wings, large head with swept-back crest, and massive, long, black bill. Adult female is similar, lacking rufous on breastband. more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 28 cm

Harlequin Duck

This is a compact duck with a steep forehead and short stubby bill. Male: Unmistakable. Blue-gray overall with chestnut sides. May appear all dark in low light. White markings include a large patch at the base of the bill, a small spot behind the eye, and broad lines on the neck, breast, and along th more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 66 cm

Northern Waterthrush

Warbler-like, with plain brown wings and back, brown tail, whitish or yellowish underparts with crisp dark streaking, unmarked undertail coverts, dusky pink legs, spotted throat, uniformly-colored pale supercilium that tapers behind the eye, plain brown crown, and relatively long, slender bill. Louis more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 24 cm

Solitary Snipe

Slightly larger than Wilson's Snipe, this Asian stray typically shows a paler face, a distinctive warm ginger-brown wash across the upper breast, and the dark barring on the underparts is finer and more extensive, thus limiting the clean white area on the belly. Strays to western Alaska are believed more...

Length: 29 cm Wingspan: cm

Wandering Tattler

This rangy rock-loving species is one of the few shorebirds with heavily barred underparts. It can be readily separated from most other rock-pipers by its longer bill and long folded wings. All ages have mostly black bill with gray at the base of the lower mandible, yellowish to yellow-green legs, an more...

Length: 26 cm Wingspan: 50 cm

Non-vegetated Areas

1 species

Solitary Snipe

Gallinago solitaria

Alpine Slopes, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks

Salt Water

4 species

Common Sandpiper

Actitis hypoleucos

Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks

Great Egret

Ardea alba

Estuaries and Bays, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks, Open Country and Grasslands

Harlequin Duck

Histrionicus histrionicus

Inshore Waters, Rocky Shores, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks

Wandering Tattler

Tringa incana

Rocky Shores, Streams and Brooks

Human-altered Areas

1 species

Great Egret

Ardea alba

Estuaries and Bays, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks, Open Country and Grasslands

Fresh Water

12 species

Grassland and Scrubland

1 species

Great Egret

Ardea alba

Estuaries and Bays, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks, Open Country and Grasslands

Forest and Woodlands

3 species