10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2021

Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At Sadly, it seems that Alaska lacks the internet or phone service, as I have not heard from him about what his Best Bird of the Weekend was. So that will be my Best Bird of the Weekend. At least, I hope he is.)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2017

It seems like it was just a few weeks ago that I was writing about the Surfbirds, and the long trip to their Alaska breeding grounds. Well, they are back. This last week we took a trip over to the Pacific side of the Baja to see who had arrived back from their summer up north.

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Critter News

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2011

Species or subspecies the range of the Northwestern Crow extends from extreme northwestern Oregon through coastal Washington, British Columbia, and well into Alaska. Others say it is the west coast analog to the Fish Crow - a marine specialist that is a species in its own right. How sure am I? Not at all.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Alaska’s long-lining fleet now must have bird-deterrent measures in place, which means a lot more Laysan, Black-footed and Short-tailed Albatross are not being injured or drowned in fishing gear. Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. is on a boat in the Aleutian chain.

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

Importantly, the paper offers support for the hypothesis that the ancestor of the entire clade came to North America by way of Beringia — the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska exposed at various times through Earth’s history.

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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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are a colonial breeder, nesting only in western Alaska, on a narrow band of coastal sedge meadows 2. Among the several species we did see on the jetty however, is the Black Turnston e ( Arenaria melanocephala ). Click on photos for full sized images. The Black Turnstone is strictly a West Coast phenomenon.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2011

My real goal is to talk to the local people, and to let them know how much we love coming to their part of the world—whether that’s Woodworth, Nort Dakooootah, or Muddlety, West Virginia or Moose Jaw, Maine, or Salmon Shin, Alaska. They need to know that their local birds are special and worth protecting.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

Least Auklet ( Aethia pusilla ) and a Crested Auklet ( Aethia cristatella ) in Alaska © Don Henise. They’re tenacious, finely tuned survivors, and they look good making it happen, too. Birds alcids taxonomy and systematics'

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

A vagabond naturalist and environmental educator he’s done a little bit of everything, from small mammal research in Grand Teton National Park and southeast Alaska, to monitoring Bactrian camels in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Ken Keffer was born and raised in Wyoming.

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2011

Hoary Marmots , also called Whistle Pigs , inhabit rocky areas near the treeline in northwestern North America up into Alaska. Their warning whistles when danger approach are one of the coolest noises one is likely to hear when exploring northwestern mountaintops.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2011

The Ruffed Grouse is a bird of the forests across much of North America, from Alaska and the mountains of the west through Canada, and in the east down through the Appalachians to Georgia. It is a beautiful bird and well worth taking examining closely if such a situation can somehow be arranged.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Godwits are spectacularly powerful fliers; the Bar-tailed Godwit makes an eight-day, non-stop flight from Alaska to New Zealand each autumn, a distance of more than 7,000 miles (11,500 kilometers). Long-billed Curlew ( Numenius americanus ) cc-by winnu Godwits Godwits are next: large, impressive shorebirds with awesome, upswept bills.

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Critter News

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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2011

Savannah Sparrows breed across the northern United States and most of Canada and Alaska and winter as far south as northern Central America and Cuba. It was nice, very nice, as the photos below hopefully demonstrate.

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2012

Are you in Alaska? The second-to-last North American bird to have its nest discovered, they split their time between a tiny chunk of Alaska and a smattering of Pacific Islands. Once you accept this basic fact, you will be surprised at the ease in which you will find yourself identifying peeps and plovers, left and right. A rocky shore?

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