List of bird sightings (from Terry Skjonsberg):

• 4 adult snow geese + 10 gooslings
• 2 adult 2 juvenile long-tailed jaegers + approx. 3 other pairs
• Numerous snow buntings and chicks
• 2 adult rock ptarmigan and 6 chicks
• Semipalmated plovers and youngsters
• Ruddy turnstones adult showing the broken wing display which suggests a nest or chicks nearby
• 2 pairs of Red knots with chicks
• Adult Baird's sandpipers
• 1 glaucous gull
• 1 long-tailed duck
• 1 unidentified loon (likely a red throated loon)
• 1 white gyrfalcon seen from the twin otter near Alexandra Fiord (abandoned RCMP post)

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