Geographical Affinities and Migrations of the Avifauna on Amchitka Island, Alaska

• Published in: BioScience
• Main Authors: Emison, W. B., Williamson, F. S. L., White, C. M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1971
• Subjects: Symposium on Amchitka Island Bioenvironmental Studies; Amchitka; Amchitka Island; Antarctic; Canada; New Zealand; Pacific; Antarc*; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/21/12/627; https://doi.org/10.2307/1295736

One hundred avian species have been observed on Amchitka and surrounding waters. Some of those occurring seasonally on Amchitka migrate to the Alaskan mainland, Siberia, the Great Plains of Canada and the United States, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New Zealand, or Antarctic waters. Sixty-eight species are breeders common to Asia and North America, 13 are North American, 15 are Asiatic and European, and 4 are from South Pacific Islands.