Birds of the Alaskan Arctic – The Last Frontier
In 2024, I finally set foot in a place I had dreamed of since childhood — the Alaskan Arctic. As a young boy, I would flip through bird books, captivated by the species that seemed almost mythical: eiders, jaegers, phalaropes, auklets, loons… To see them, not as illustrations, but in their breeding grounds, was something I had imagined for years.
In the High Arctic, the short breeding window creates an intense rhythm of life. Birds, driven by the urgency to reproduce, become remarkably tolerant of human presence, offering rare and intimate photographic opportunities. It’s a place where the wild feels vast and raw, and where every encounter feels like a privilege.
These images are a glimpse of some of the most iconic species in the northern hemisphere, and I hope you will enjoy the gallery !
Horned Puffin
Crested Auklet
Least Auklet
Parakeet Auklet
Tufted Puffin
Thick-billed Murre
Common Eider (Pacific)
Long-tailed Duck
King Eider
Harlequin Duck
King Eider
Spectacled Eider
Spectacled Eider
Barrow's Goldeneye
King Eider
Lesser Scaup
Greater Scaup
Green-winged Teal
Wilson's Snipe
Red Phalarope
Wandering Tattler
Pectoral Sandpiper
Red Knot
Western Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Red-necked Knot
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Lapland Longspur
Long-billed Dowitcher
Black Turnstone
Long-billed Dowitcher
Snow Bunting
Cliff Swallow
Long-billed Dowitcher
Red-legged Kittiwake
Varied Thrush
Rosy Finch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Parasite Jeager
Pomarine Jeager
Long-tailed Jeager
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Dunlin (Pacific)
Horned Puffin
Rock Sandpiper
Temminck's Stint
Greater White-fronted Goose
Sooty Fox Sparrow
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Townsend's Warbler
Western Sandpiper
American Golden Plover
Lapland Longspur
Aleutian Tern
Sabine's Gull
Tufted Puffin
Arctic Tern
Pacific Golden Plover
Pacific Golden Plover
American Golden Plover
Surfbird
Pectoral Sandpiper
Parakeet Auklet
Dunlin (Pacific)
Dunlin (Pacific)
Dunlin (Pacific)
Horned Puffin
Northern Fulmar
Northern Fulmar
Steller's Jay (Coastal)