Bird AlbumSvalbard & Jan Mayen · Svalbard
Alkefjellet
26 species and 1,252 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: June, with up to 17 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Species seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
All 26 species recorded here
- Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
- Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia
- Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
- Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
- Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
- Great Skua Stercorarius skua
- Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
- Common Eider Somateria mollissima
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
- Little Auk Alle alle
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus
- Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea
- Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
- Common Murre Uria aalge
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- King Eider Somateria spectabilis
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Alkefjellet?
June. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 17 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Alkefjellet?
26 species, from 1,252 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.