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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act

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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. There is also a research institute dedicated to wilderness: the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute is an interagency facility located at the University of Montana.

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Beak Deformities

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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. Unfortunately, no one knows for sure, despite constant research. But the possibilities include disease, lack of nutrition, and parasites.

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2014-2015 Winter Finch Forecast

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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. Matt Young (may6 at cornell.edu) at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will identify types if you send him your recordings and this will help with his ongoing research.

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The origins of tanagers, warblers, and sparrows are coming into focus

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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. The paper is by leading researchers F. Keith Barker, Kevin J. Burns, John Klicka, Scott M.

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448 Great Things to do in Nature

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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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Red-breasted Sapsuckers, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker of the West

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The Red-breasted Sapsucker calls the West Coast home, ranging from southern Alaska south to Baja California. When I began to research this phenomenon, I discovered that sapsuckers create elaborate systems of sap wells and maintain this resource throughout the day to ensure sap production. Click on photos for full sized images.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

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His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. Even if you have read about these research projects, Weidensaul’s accounts offer fresh angles and updated information. is through the personal and the specific.