Information About

Gustavus

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 24' 47.999" N,
135 ° 44' 12.998" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Elevation

10 ft (3.05 m)

Gustavus in Detail.

About

Incorporated April 1, 2004. Located on the north shore of Icy Passage at the mouth of Salmon River, 7 miles northeast of Point Gustavus and 48 miles northwest of Juneau, in the Saint Elias Mountains.

History

Local name reported in 1940 by U.S. Forest Service (USFS); derived from nearby Point Gustavus.

Birds Sighted Here

Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings

Black-legged Kittiwake, Western Sandpiper, Glaucous-winged Gull, Dunlin, Greater White-fronted Goose, Bonaparte's Gull, Common Gull, Marbled Murrelet, Least Sandpiper, Surf Scoter, Green-winged Teal, Sandhill Crane, Short-billed Dowitcher, Snow Goose, Pine Siskin, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Redpoll, Mallard, Lapland Longspur, Cackling Goose, Canada Goose, Black-bellied Plover, Pectoral Sandpiper, Snow Bunting, American Golden Plover, Rock Sandpiper, American Robin, Black Scoter, Aleutian Cackling Goose, White-winged Scoter, White-winged Crossbill, Black Turnstone, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Herring Gull, Surfbird, Lesser Scaup, Red-necked Grebe, Horned Grebe, Sanderling, Red-necked Phalarope, Arctic Tern, Pacific Loon, American Crow, Tundra Swan, Buff-bellied Pipit, Long-billed Dowitcher, Wilson's Snipe, Barn Swallow, Bohemian Waxwing, Savannah Sparrow, Long-tailed Duck, Common Murre, Tree Swallow, Northern Shoveler, Bufflehead, Common Merganser, Dark-eyed Junco, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Bald Eagle, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Greater Scaup, American Tree Sparrow, Ring-necked Duck, Semipalmated Plover, Wilson's Warbler, Red Crossbill, Common Raven, Black-billed Magpie, Lesser Yellowlegs, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Varied Thrush, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Red Knot, Hermit Thrush, California Gull, Caspian tern, Horned Lark, Gadwall, Pigeon Guillemot, Pine Grosbeak, Orange-crowned Warbler, Stilt Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Pacific Golden-Plover, Lincoln's Sparrow, Bar-tailed Godwit, Fox Sparrow, Hudsonian Godwit, Townsend's Warbler, Greater Yellowlegs, Parasitic Jaeger, Common Loon, Cedar Waxwing, Eurasian Collared Dove, Barrow's Goldeneye, Vaux's Swift, Iceland Gull, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Baird's Sandpiper, Bank Swallow, White-crowned Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird, Pelagic Cormorant, Steller's Jay, Trumpeter Swan, Marbled Godwit, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Great Blue Heron, Eurasian Wigeon, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Brown Creeper, Common Starling, Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Short-eared Owl, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Blue-winged Teal, Ruddy Turnstone, Spotted Sandpiper, Common Goldeneye, Hairy Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Canvasback, Redhead, Harlequin Duck, Red-throated Loon, American Three-toed Woodpecker, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Hooded Merganser, Barred Owl, Western Wood-Pewee, Pacific Wren, Yellow-billed Loon, Northern Harrier, Belted Kingfisher, Alder Flycatcher, Violet-green Swallow, Anna's Hummingbird, Black Oystercatcher, Killdeer, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Sabine's Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl, Mountain Bluebird, Gray-crowned Rosy Finch, Cinnamon Teal, American Coot, Ancient Murrelet, Cassin's Auklet, Double-crested Cormorant, Peregrine Falcon, Northern Shrike, American Dipper, Swainson's Thrush, Common Yellowthroat, Emperor Goose, Wood Duck, Common Nighthawk, Virginia Rail, Sora, Upland Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Pomarine Jaeger, Long-tailed Jaeger, Glaucous Gull, Osprey, Northern Goshawk, Northern Pygmy-owl, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, American Kestrel, Merlin, Eastern Kingbird, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Gray-cheeked Thrush, McKay's Bunting, White-throated Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird, Ross's Goose, American Black Duck, Tufted Duck, King Eider, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Pied-billed Grebe, Western Grebe, Mourning Dove, Ruff, White-rumped Sandpiper, Wilson's Phalarope, Wandering Tattler, Spotted Redshank, Ross's Gull, Franklin's Gull, Western Gull, Great Egret, Golden Eagle, Swainson's Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Western Screech-Owl, Snowy Owl, Long-eared Owl, Boreal Owl, Willow Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, Say's Phoebe, Warbling Vireo, Clark's Nutcracker, Black-capped Chickadee, Northern Mockingbird, Townsend's Solitaire, House Sparrow, Red-throated Pipit, Brambling, Purple Finch, Hoary Redpoll, Smith's Longspur, Rustic Bunting, Chipping sparrow, Harris's Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Common Grackle, Northern Waterthrush, Black-and-white Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, MacGillivray's Warbler, American Redstart, Palm Warbler, Western Tanager, Black-headed Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting