Category: Alaska Conservation
Der Stellersche Seelöwe (Steller Sea Lion)
For the last three years while assuming my role as Project Director on our Eyes on Conservation series I have been working in Alaska on a Steller sea lion survival study in the Aleutian Islands. The program is operated by ...
Fledgling Gyrfalcons
*** Wild Lens Scientific Director Neil Paprocki is currently in Nome, Alaska working on The Peregrine Fund’s Gyrfalcon Conservation Project with Boise State University graduate student Bryce Robinson. You can read more about this project on previous Wild Lens blog ...
Banding Songbirds of the Seward Peninsula Part 2: The Tundra
This is part 2 of a two-part series documenting a USGS Alaska Science Center landbird project looking into blood parasite loads in subarctic songbirds. Part 1 detailed our efforts in the Boreal Forest. Moving away from the close-confines of the ...
The Importance of Bird Banding
Now is the time of year when many bird observatories begin their fall banding season, placing sometimes thousands of uniquely numbered aluminum bands on birds all across the continent. Why do scientists band birds? What is the importance? And don't ...
Banding Songbirds of the Seward Peninsula Part 1: The Boreal Forest
The U.S. Geological Service (USGS) of Anchorage has been conducting land-bird research on the Seward Peninsula of northwestern Alaska for over two decades. One of the current research projects seeks to understand how shifting vegetation communities driven by climate change ...
An Alaskan Specialty: the Aleutian Tern
One North American tern species resides solely in Alaska: the Aleutian Tern, Onychophrion aleuticus. Terns have always been one of my favorite photography subjects and upon reaching the Seward Peninsula of northwest Alaska to study Gyrfalcons, I was excited to ...
Growth of Young Gyrfalcon Nestlings
*** I am currently in Nome, Alaska working on The Peregrine Fund's Gyrfalcon Conservation Project with Boise State University graduate student Bryce Robinson. You can read more about this project on previous Wild Lens blog entries *** Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) ...
Three Nests in Two Days
The helicopter lifted off, disappearing into the thick, oppressive fog just as quickly as it had arrived. My colleague and I were thus left alone on the tundra, 85 miles from Nome and 25 miles beyond the nearest dirt road ...
Shorebird Explosion
Well it's official: the shorebirds have arrived in Nome, Alaska. We had been seeing a scattering of shorebirds for a few weeks now but on the evenings of May 21st and 22nd they had arrived en-mass. The water level at ...
