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DECEMBER 14, 2010

The death toll for musk oxen at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Large Animal Research Station rose to nine after a school veterinarian euthanized two older bulls that never recovered from a suspected trace mineral deficiency that caused the deaths of seven other animals in September and October.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

The bulk of wilderness is in Alaska (more than 57 million acres), most of it designated by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) in 1980. The most recent additions were approximately 1.3 million acres designated by the bipartisan John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act in 2019.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

I am actually jumping out of my assigned beat area, to share some photos from my trip to Kodiak Island Alaska. I am sure there is a regulation that requires any article that covers Alaska, must include a Bald Eagle , so here is mine. All in all, I add 17 new species to my Life List, not even a quarter of what I had hoped for.

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JULY 2, 2024

They apparently meet the criteria for inclusion in that they are regular migrants or annual visitors to specific areas of Alaska. They are by Karlson, from his years as a research biologist in Alaska, and Ted Swem, a U.S. There is a freedom in the writing that we don’t often see in formal identification or field guides.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

Birders know why Alaska is known as The Last Frontier. But until this past month, I’d never been to Alaska. I’m not sure what I expected when I finally got a look at Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. Because that’s what animals do in Alaska. Birding Destinations Alaska bears' I was off to St.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

My wife and I had the chance to visit Alaska! The Alaska wilderness lives up to the visions we had. Alaska was incredible. We are told the scenic beauty of Alaska is only rivaled by that of the Patagonian and Antartic region in extreme South America. But an opportunity presented itself and we took it. Northern Hawk-Owl.

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MAY 9, 2017

Because these lands include a variety of different habitats and range from Alaska to Puerto Rico and Hawaii to Maine, it is difficult to make generalizations about their impact on birds. Northern Fulmar : Approximately half of the North American breeding population in the Pacific Ocean breed in Alaska, with the remainder in northern Canada.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

With a Rustic Bunting in Homer, Alaska, Neil Hayward has tied Sandy Komito’s American Birding Assocation area big year record of 745 (+3) species. That is a lot of birds in what is essentially Alaska, Canada, and the lower 48 states in one year. But whats with the (+3)? That’s where things get kind of fun.

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JULY 30, 2014

They are a non-migratory species found in western coniferous and mixed-coniferous forests, breeding from Alaska, western Canada, and the United States south through western Mexico to Nicaragua. The Steller’s Jay ( Cyanocitta stelleri ) is one of the ubiquitous birds seen at Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California.

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MARCH 15, 2016

The vast majority of this area (about 85%) is in Alaska. Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. For many, the journey ends in Alaska, where NWRs host staggering numbers of breeding birds, including more than 40 million within Alaska Maritime NWR alone.

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APRIL 24, 2013

The Surfbird outside of the breeding season can be found along almost the entire Pacific Coast of the Americas, from southeastern Alaska all the way to Tierra del Fuego in southern Chile. In breeding season, Surfbird is found in mountain ranges scattered throughout Alaska and the Yukon Territory 1. Truly a West Coast species.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Flights of Passage describes the seasonal travels of 67 species from different parts of the globe, “chosen to showcase migratory behavior,” the authors say, “across a broad spectrum.”

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APRIL 11, 2024

According to eBird, “it breeds on rocky cliffs on islands in the Bering Sea, from Alaska to Russia; winters on open ocean”. In contrast, eBird notes that the Black-legged Kittiwake “breeds at high latitudes across the Northern Hemisphere, primarily in large colonies on cliffs and other structures overhanging water”.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Unfortunately, he didn’t check their range maps: Willow Ptarmigans – the state bird of Alaska – are only found in Northern Alaska and Canada, not the tropics. He loves the Willow Ptarmigan so much that he often uses their calls in his movies, such as Jurassic World and Indiana Jones : Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Only this week the extraordinary journey of a Bar-tailed Godwit travelling from Alaska to Tasmania in just eleven days has shown us all just how incredible these shorebirds are. Many different species of shorebirds travel the East-Asian Australasian Flyway to spend the non-breeding cycle of their lives here in Broome.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

The Alaska Science Center has been working with chickadees for many years, attempting to solve the problem. They began work in 1999, concentrating on the Black-Capped Chickadees of Alaska. Although the Alaska Science Center concentrates on chickadees, they also study deformity cases in crows, nuthatches, woodpeckers, and jays.

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APRIL 3, 2018

to the Rocky Mountains and beyond, Alaska, throughout the Caribbean, and in seven countries in Europe. And then there’s rufous, who journeys between Mexico and Alaska twice a year. Angela Minor has lived, traveled, and birded from the southern U.S.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2022

In any case, screech-owls are birds of the Megascops genus, small nocturnal owls found in wooded habitats from southern Alaska to northern Argentina. I suppose that sounds better than “tremulous”, “modulating”, or “little hooting” owls even if any of those names would be more accurate.

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OCTOBER 28, 2023

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MARCH 27, 2021

All the way to Alaska maybe? That would be migrant raptors such as Broad-winged and Swainson’s Hawks. Scanning from the back balcony this morning, I was pleased to see a dozen Swainson’s taking to the air on distant thermals. Where will they go? Wilson’s Plovers are in Breeding Plumage.

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MARCH 13, 2012

This is a nice short article about the Short-tailed Shearwater and its connection to Australia, Alaska, and the Aboriginal community of Boonwurrung.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, most states still have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98, unchanged); Wyoming (97, unchanged); Georgia (94, up from 54); Nevada (93, up from 53); Delaware (88, up from 83); Maine (82, up from 76); South Carolina (82, up from 49); Louisiana (81, up from 73); Alaska (79, up from 34); Maryland (62, unchanged); Illinois (50, up from (..)

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MAY 30, 2019

“I’d witnessed Peregrines and Gyrfalcons in the fall of 1949 while I was doing undergraduate work at the University of Alaska. ” Cade was later to comment, “1951 was when I first saw the high-flying style of hunting performed by the wilderness-inhabiting Peregrines of Alaska.”

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JUNE 18, 2013

First of all, the species only occurs semi regularly in North America in a small patch of Alaska where it occasionally breeds. Most of its range is actually in the Old World so if you want to see one in North America you have to arrange a trip to western Alaska in breeding season, not exactly an easy proposition logistically.

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APRIL 16, 2021

And while I’ve never been to Canada’s Maritime Provinces or Alaska – where most North American sightings of Gray Heron have been recorded – I still remind myself to take a second look at any Great Blue Herons I see just to make sure it has those telltale rufous thigh and isn’t some lookalike from across “the Pond”.

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JULY 6, 2023

The research used data collected by coastal residents along beaches from central California to Alaska. Seabirds spend a significant amount of time at sea, making them difficult to study.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

They breed in Canada and Alaska, but in the summer they can be found across the United States, as far south as Florida, Cuba, and into Mexico, and as far north as the Pacific coast of Alaska and the Atlantic coast of Maine. Bufflehead are black and white ducks, the male sporting a large white patch on an otherwise black head.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

West of Ontario cone crops are poor in the boreal forest in Manitoba and Saskatchewan but improve westward with average crops in southern Yukon and excellent crops in Alaska. Siskins should winter in Alaska and north-central Quebec where spruce crops are excellent. Birch seed crops are poor to average in the boreal forest.

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MAY 8, 2013

The Black Oystercatcher ( Haematopus bachmani ) can be found along the Pacific Coast of North America from Alaska to Baja California. Click on photos for full sized images. I found these two on the North Jetty at Humboldt Bay foraging and relaxing on the rocky outcroppings.

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MAY 17, 2013

It breeds into Alaska. My yard is nicer than Alaska (sorry Claire.) I’m not mad at you, Calliope Hummingbird. But if you did want to come visit… The Rufous Hummingbird is best known for tenacity and toughness and widespread wandering. My life Rufous was wintering in New York just outside the Museum of Natural History.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

If I make it up to the Canadian coast or Alaska I will most likely find a breeding adult to photograph. Here are a couple of photos showing the Mew Gull’s wings… and tail. I grabbed a series of shots while the youngster was preening. Then I’ll have to try to distinguish the breeding adults from one another!

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MAY 18, 2009

Looks like blue whales may be coming back to Alaska. From the Associated Press: Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. Here's hoping Sarah Palin leaves them alone.

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JULY 21, 2016

As the temperatures rise, I like to think about crisp blue glaciers, like the ones I saw ages ago in Alaska. Much of the United States labors under what is being called a heat dome , and that doesn’t even touch on the flames being set off by our political conventions.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

A number of years ago I was granted the privilege of flying into the Kuparuk Oil Field, above the Arctic Circle in the remote regions of the North Slope Borough in Alaska. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. His answer surprised me.

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JULY 1, 2021

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