Episode Summary: Today's episode of the podcast is about seabird monitoring in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. This is a long term research and monitoring effort that has been going on for over 30 years, and continues to provide amazing ...

On the remote island of Aiktak in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, wildlife researcher Mikaela Howie spent four months monitoring seabird populations. Mikaela, along with one additional field biologist, lived by themselves in extreme isolation from the outside world while ...

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 ...

Yesterday my buddy Bryce and I took a day off from Gyrfalcon nest searching to do some birding around Nome. The weather was extremely dreary and foggy, making it near-impossible for us to locate Gyrfalcon nests. The visibility around Nome ...

Terns are extremely fun to photograph. Their flight style and ability to dive into water for fish make them quite photogenic. Last summer I spent nearly an entire morning photographing Arctic Terns along a creek just downstream from a fish ...

When I took this picture yesterday, I anticipated an easy ID as I knew Forster's Terns were the only regular inhabitants of western Utah save Black Terns, which are quite easy to identify (they're black!). I have relatively little experience ...

*** Mikaela Howie is the newest member of our "Eyes on Conservation" team. She will be working on a long-term project whose main objective is to monitor the nesting productivity and population trends of seabirds breeding on the Aleutian Islands ...