Information About

King Salmon

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 41' 17.999" N,
156 ° 39' 41" W

Region

Bristol Bay

Elevation

72 ft (21.95 m)

King Salmon in Detail.

Getting There


About

population 227, on the right bank of Naknek River, on Alaska Peninsula, 14 mi. SE of Naknek; Bristol Bay Low.


History

the King Salmon post office was established in 1949 at King Salmon Air Force Base.

Birds Sighted Here

Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings

Long-tailed Duck, Northern Pintail, Tundra Swan, Common Merganser, Dunlin, Western Sandpiper, Glaucous-winged Gull, Red-breasted Merganser, Bald Eagle, Mallard, American Wigeon, Common Goldeneye, Short-billed Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plover, Greater White-fronted Goose, Greater Scaup, Common Redpoll, Sandhill Crane, Canada Goose, Lapland Longspur, Red-necked Phalarope, Long-billed Dowitcher, Black Scoter, Common Gull, Tree Swallow, Green-winged Teal, Rusty Blackbird, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Hudsonian Godwit, Cackling Goose, Aleutian Tern, Common Raven, Arctic Tern, White-crowned Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Black-capped Chickadee, Bank Swallow, American Robin, Greater Yellowlegs, Bonaparte's Gull, Least Sandpiper, Wilson's Snipe, Ruddy Turnstone, Red-throated Loon, Redhead, King Eider, Whimbrel, Hoary Redpoll, Wilson's Warbler, Bar-tailed Godwit, Pine Grosbeak, McKay's Bunting, Canvasback, Harlequin Duck, Black-billed Magpie, Savannah Sparrow, Trumpeter Swan, Barrow's Goldeneye, Semipalmated Plover, Parasitic Jaeger, Double-crested Cormorant, Boreal Chickadee, Snow Bunting, Northern Shoveler, Red-necked Grebe, Red Knot, Lesser Yellowlegs, Glaucous Gull, Common Loon, Varied Thrush, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Orange-crowned Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Gadwall, Fox Sparrow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Bufflehead, Marbled Godwit, Black Turnstone, Pacific Loon, Gray Jay, Lincoln's Sparrow, Willow Ptarmigan, Horned Grebe, Rock Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, Long-tailed Jaeger, Herring Gull, Northern Harrier, Merlin, Alder Flycatcher, Northern Shrike, Arctic Warbler, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Buff-bellied Pipit, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Waterthrush, Yellow Warbler, Snow Goose, Baikal Teal, Eurasian Wigeon, Steller's Eider, Hooded Merganser, Spruce Grouse, American Coot, Pectoral Sandpiper, Red Phalarope, Sabine's Gull, Yellow-billed Loon, Osprey, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Goshawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Great Horned Owl, Short-eared Owl, Boreal Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Belted Kingfisher, American Three-toed Woodpecker, Horned Lark, Violet-green Swallow, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Common Starling, Townsend's Solitaire, Pine Siskin, White-throated Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird