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Gambell

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Location

63 ° 46' 46.999" N,
171 ° 44' 28" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Gambell in Detail.

About

On Saint Lawrence Island, near the NW Cape of Cape Chibukak.

History

Named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Gambell, Presbyterian missionaries and teachers on the island from 1894 to 1898, who were drowned in 1898, while returning to Saint Lawrence after a year's leave of absence, from the sinking of the schooner Jane Grey. Named by William F. Doty, the new teacher. The name "Gambell" was painted on the front face of the station building as a memorial. (Jackson, 1900, p. 224),

Birds Sighted Here

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Crested Auklet, Short-tailed Shearwater, Least Auklet, Common Murre, Thick-billed Murre, Red Phalarope, Black-legged Kittiwake, Parakeet Auklet, Common Eider, Horned Puffin, Spectacled Eider, Tufted Puffin, King Eider, Pigeon Guillemot, Snow Bunting, Long-tailed Duck, Northern Fulmar, Lapland Longspur, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Emperor Goose, Glaucous Gull, Pelagic Cormorant, Pomarine Jaeger, Pectoral Sandpiper, Pacific Loon, Harlequin Duck, Steller's Eider, Ancient Murrelet, Northern Pintail, Glaucous-winged Gull, Herring Gull, Long-billed Dowitcher, Yellow-billed Loon, Northern Wheatear, Common Redpoll, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Sandhill Crane, Common Raven, Hoary Redpoll, Ivory Gull, Red-necked Phalarope, Brambling, Pacific Golden-Plover, Arctic Warbler, Snow Goose, Arctic Tern, Bluethroat, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Black Guillemot, Greater Scaup, Savannah Sparrow, White-winged Scoter, Ruddy Turnstone, Red-throated Loon, Red-throated Pipit, Red-breasted Merganser, Rock Sandpiper, Ruff, Arctic Loon, Eurasian Wigeon, White Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit, Tundra Swan, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Terek Sandpiper, Greater White-fronted Goose, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Semipalmated Plover, Long-tailed Jaeger, Sabine's Gull, McKay's Bunting, Great Knot, Common Goldeneye, Parasitic Jaeger, Black Scoter, Sanderling, Ross's Gull, Green-winged Teal, Rough-legged Hawk, Snowy Owl, Common Ringed Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Red-necked Stint, Wood Sandpiper, Dovekie, Red-legged Kittiwake, Bank Swallow, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Hawfinch, Common Tern, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Pine Siskin, White-crowned Sparrow, Cackling Goose, Stejneger's Scoter, Common Merganser, Black-bellied Plover, Whimbrel, Common Sandpiper, Slaty-backed Gull, Short-eared Owl, Bullfinch, Fox Sparrow, Red-necked Grebe, Wilson's Warbler, Gray-tailed Tattler, Black-headed Gull, Peregrine Falcon, Northern Shoveler, Surf Scoter, Curlew Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, Horned Lark, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Swainson's Thrush, Chipping sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Orange-crowned Warbler, Mallard, Bufflehead, Horned Grebe, American Golden Plover, Lesser Sand Plover, Red Knot, Temminck's Stint, Marbled Murrelet, Iceland Gull, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Hermit Thrush, Siberian Accentor, Red Crossbill, Little Bunting, Tundra Bean Goose, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Tufted Duck, Lesser Scaup, Smew, Common Cuckoo, Eurasian Dotterel, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Least Sandpiper, Wilson's Snipe, Wandering Tattler, Greenshank, Common Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Eurasian Skylark, Dusky Warbler, Willow Warbler, Varied Thrush, American Robin, Eyebrowed Thrush, Olive-backed Pipit, Pechora Pipit, Common Rosefinch, Purple Finch, Rustic Bunting, Dark-eyed Junco, Bullock's Oriole, Northern Waterthrush, Tennessee Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Bean Goose, Whooper Swan, Baikal Teal, Common Pochard, Hooded Merganser, Willow Ptarmigan, Oriental Turtle-dove, Oriental Cuckoo, Common Nighthawk, Pacific Swift, Little Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Marbled Godwit, Black Turnstone, Long-toed Stint, Little Stint, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Jack Snipe, Common Snipe, Spotted Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Oriental Pratincole, Rhinoceros Auklet, Bonaparte's Gull, Little Gull, Black-tailed Gull, Common Gull, Common Gull, Aleutian Tern, Leach's Storm-petrel, Osprey, Bald Eagle, White-tailed Eagle, Boreal Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Eurasian Wryneck, Northern Flicker, Merlin, Eurasian Hobby, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Philadelphia Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Brown Shrike, Northern Shrike, Lanceolated Warbler, Violet-green Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Common House Martin, Wood Warbler, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Northern Mockingbird, Mountain Bluebird, Townsend's Solitaire, Fieldfare, Dusky Thrush, Grey-spotted Flycatcher, Siberian Blue Robin, Siberian Rubythroat, Red-flanked Bluetail, Siberian Stonechat, House Sparrow, White-winged Crossbill, Pine Bunting, Yellow-breasted Bunting, Lincoln's Sparrow, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Rusty Blackbird, Ovenbird, Nashville Warbler, MacGillivray's Warbler, Mourning Warbler, American Redstart, Cape May Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Townsend's Warbler, Black-headed Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting