Alaska Duck Species To Hunt
Duck Species Huntable in Alaska
Aleutian Island Waterfowlers offers Duck hunters over 20 seperate species to hunt including King Eider, Pacific Eider, Harlequin, Oldsquaw, Pacific Black Brant, White Wing and Common Scoters, Pintails, Mallards, Teal, Aleutian Teal, Widgeon, Eurasian Widgeon, Spoon bills, Sand Hill Cranes, Ptarmigan,Geese
ABUNDANCE CATEGORIES
A – Commonly harvested 90-100% success
B – Often harvested 70 – 90% success
C – Rarely harvested 20 – 40% success
D – 100% incidental 2-10 % success
NH= Non huntable closed
Aleutian Islands Waterfolwers Duck Species Available to Hunt
DUCK Species | Alaska Peninsula – Cold Bay | Aleutians Islands -Coldbay | Island X | ||||
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Hunt Dates > | Sep1st-Oct 30th | Nov 1st – Dec16 | Dec 27-Jan22 | ||||
Hunt Cost’s > | $3400 | $3900 | $4900pp | ||||
King Eider | D | D | A | ||||
Pacific Eider | A | A | D | ||||
Harlequin | A | A | A | ||||
Old Squaw | B | A | A | ||||
Common Scoter | B | B | C | ||||
White-winged Scoter | B | B | C | ||||
Surf Scoter | D | D | |||||
Black Brant | A | ||||||
Northern Pintail | A | A | |||||
Mallard | A | A | |||||
American Wigeon | B | B | |||||
Eurasian Wigeon | C | B | C | ||||
Green-winged Teal | B | B | |||||
Aleutian Teal | C | A | C | ||||
Greater Scaup | A | ||||||
Lesser Scaup | C | ||||||
Schoveler | B | B | |||||
Gadwall | B | ||||||
Barrows Goldeneye | D | D | C | ||||
Common Goldeneye | C | B | C | ||||
Common Merganser | B | B | |||||
Red-breasted Merganser | C | A | |||||
Bufflehead | A | B | C | ||||
Sandhill Crane | B | ||||||
Stellars Eider | Non Huntable -A | Non Huntable-A | Non Huntable -B | ||||
Spectacle Eider | NH-B | NH | NH–C | ||||
Emperor Goose | NH–A | NH –A | NH–C | ||||
Canvasback | C | ||||||
Canada Goose | A | ||||||
Willow Ptarmigan | A | A | |||||
Arctic Fox | C | C | |||||
Tundra Swan | |||||||
Common Pochard | D | ||||||
Smew | D | ||||||
Tufted Duck | D | ||||||
Falcated Teal | D |