Yes. No account, no email, no ads. Pick a place and download the PDF.

Where does the bird data come from?

Public, license-clean records from GBIF, the IOC World Bird List, USGS, and iNaturalist.

Does it work outside the US?

Yes. Every US state, plus countries, continents, and a global list — anywhere with bird occurrence records.

A birding tradition: count how many species you can see in one place over a calendar year. The same approach works for a Big Day, Big Week, or Big Month.

Can I customize my checklist?

Yes. Filter by season, common vs rare, and family before you download.

Big Year Bird Checklist for Alaska

A free printable Alaska bird checklist. Pick your goal, get the PDF.

Alaska's checklist is unlike any other state's. Pelagic seabirds, Asian strays in the western islands, and breeding shorebirds of the tundra make a big year here a genuinely wild undertaking.

The tool builds you a printable checklist of every bird realistically possible in Alaska, grouped by family, with seasonal markers and a space to log the date you spot each one. It's drawn from public, license-clean records — not a generic national list, but the species that actually occur where you're birding.

Pick Alaska (or any area inside it), choose your goal — Big Day, Big Month, Big Year, or a life list — and download the PDF. Free, no account, no email. Print it, fold it in a field guide, and start checking birds off.

What you'll find on a Alaska checklist

A Alaska checklist mixes widespread residents with the specialties that make the state worth a big year. A few you'll want to target:

Bald Eagle — Abundant along salmon coasts.
Willow Ptarmigan — The state bird; turns white in winter.
Spectacled Eider — A high-arctic sea duck.
Bristle-thighed Curlew — A rare breeding shorebird.
Bohemian Waxwing — Winter flocks in the interior.
Boreal Chickadee — Spruce-forest resident.
Northern Hawk Owl — Diurnal boreal owl.
Aleutian Tern — Western-islands specialty.
Red-faced Cormorant — A North Pacific seabird.
Gyrfalcon — The arctic's great falcon.
Snowy Owl — Tundra and coastal winters.
Common Redpoll — Irruptive winter finch.

Your generated PDF includes every realistic species for the exact area you pick, with seasonal markers and a space to log each sighting.

This is a preview. For your full printable list:

Build a complete, customizable Alaska checklist — filter by season, by how common a bird is, and by family, then download the PDF.

What kind of list do you need?

Birders use “Big” challenges to make birding count. Pick the timeframe you're working with — we'll tune the list for it.

Better With Birds

Shop the birds you love

Chasing a Alaska big year? You're going to like the apparel, prints, and stickers we've designed around these birds.

Bald Eagle, Willow Ptarmigan, Spectacled Eider, Bristle-thighed Curlew — all illustrated and designed by Jaymi at Better With Birds. Made-to-order, never mass-printed.