Katmai National Park & Preserve - Birds (U.S. National Park Service)

White winged crossbill feeding on white spruce cones in the snow

An NPS Photo by Peter Hamel

White winged crossbills are one of the few species of birds that stay in Katmai country year round. Their bills are specially adapted to feeding on spruce cones.

Katmai's lake edges and marshes serve as nesting sites for tundra swans, ducks, loons, grebes, and that 20,000-mile annual commuter, the arctic tern. Sea birds abound along the coast, grouse and ptarmigan inhabit the uplands, and some 40 songbird species summer here. Seacoast rock pinnacles and treetops along lakeshores provide nesting sites for bald eagles, hawks, falcons, and owls.

Katmai National Park and Preserve is on the Alaska Peninsula. A link to a complete list of birds present on the Alaska Peninsula compiled by the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) is below. Please visit:

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/chekbird/r7/akpenin.htm