10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2016
In 1955 – before Alaska was a state – the Territory’s leaders in charge of drafting a constitution allowed schoolchildren to choose what would eventually become the state bird. The Willow Ptarmigan was officially designated in 1960, when Alaska entered the union.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2018
As her website attests: “This year I’ve also designed a knitted curlew for the RSPB to promote their Curlew Recovery Program , and a knitted sandpiper for the Net Loft in Alaska, for their Birds By Hand project, to raise awareness of the Cordova migration flyway.” Happy bird-knitting!
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. “I’d witnessed Peregrines and Gyrfalcons in the fall of 1949 while I was doing undergraduate work at the University of Alaska. He came for the hawks.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2014
The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia. migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. Arctic Canada face ongoing and proposed development. Birds in Delaware Bay.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. The Sandhill Crane is no different than the Aleutian strain of Canada goose.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2013
Birds are raised from the egg to follow a certain migration timing, but that timing shifts when the egg hatches later or earlier due to changes in conditions. … The dinosaur specimen in question was found in deposits west of the city of Grande Prairie in west-central Alberta, Canada.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2022
And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. They breed along the Arctic Circle in Canada and Alaska, and winter in southern South America, often in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. But they kind of are, down here.
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