Aglakh

Students living on Bering Island (the largest of the Commander Islands) have just returned from their summer camp.  Here's their report..  The etno-ecological camp "Aglakh" started on [...]

By |2016-08-02T15:29:13+00:00August 2, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps, Commander Islands|Comments Off on Aglakh

Last day of art-camp

Today each student made a T-shirt design featuring a seabird. The kids were impressed by how well the stencils worked to make crisp designs. […]

By |2016-07-01T14:13:18+00:00July 1, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Last day of art-camp

Kittiwake mobiles

Art-camp on St. George Island continues… We started the day by making Kittiwake Mobiles. Bianca was so excited that she wanted to make two: One for her [...]

By |2016-07-01T14:05:54+00:00July 1, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Kittiwake mobiles

The Water Tank

As soon as Seabird Camp finished on St. Paul Island…Ram jumped on a fishing tender and made it over to St. George Island to spend a few [...]

By |2016-06-29T21:44:44+00:00June 29, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on The Water Tank

Showtime!

The day of the big performance finally arrived! First, campers had to make something for their audience to eat. They started cooking with Zee, a local elder, [...]

By |2016-06-29T15:06:03+00:00June 29, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Showtime!

Day Five of Camp

We started the day with a three station rotation that included Chicks and Splatters, a custom made board game all about the ups and downs of seabird [...]

By |2016-06-27T14:14:40+00:00June 27, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Day Five of Camp

Day four of camp

Campers started the day by showing off their seabird identification skills with several rounds of Seabird Bingo. After reviewing the special characteristics of both seabirds and shorebirds [...]

By |2016-06-26T04:43:13+00:00June 26, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Day four of camp

Day Three of Camp

A wet and wild Bering Sea morning greeted us on Wednesday. Not good weather for a three-hour field trip, even with great raingear. We made a last [...]

By |2016-06-24T06:29:35+00:00June 24, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Day Three of Camp

Day Two of Camp

Today we had a very special opportunity to visit Anna Mel, Aqualina and all of their Unungan language learners/teachers at the St. Paul Civic Center. Through sign [...]

By |2016-06-23T14:30:38+00:00June 23, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Day Two of Camp

First Day of Camp

Thirty-seven kids packed the St. Paul School’s Science Room on Monday to learn about seabirds, shorebirds and how they all find food. […]

By |2016-06-22T06:08:33+00:00June 22, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on First Day of Camp

Field work continues

Our field biology interns, Chauncey and Carley, have had quite a week! Four younger kids joined us for Thursday’s resighting expedition under High Bluffs. Resighting shows which [...]

By |2016-06-18T15:15:09+00:00June 18, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Field work continues

“I see an egg!”

Today Chauncey and Carley learned all about how U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service keeps track of seabird nesting on St. Paul. […]

By |2016-06-15T21:56:25+00:00June 15, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on “I see an egg!”

First Day with Interns

It’s count-down to Seabird Camp on St. Paul Island, and on Monday, all of our interns started work! Carley started her field work with an adventure led [...]

By |2016-06-15T14:44:32+00:00June 15, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on First Day with Interns

Last Day of Camp

Makayla and Ann got up early and joined Jason for kittiwake resighting at the village cliffs. The Refuge monitor about 200 individual color-banded black and red-legged kittiwakes [...]

By |2016-06-06T20:15:28+00:00June 6, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Last Day of Camp

Fourth Day of Camp

Red-legged kittiwakes Today we started off camp brainstorming about the seabird breeding season. We talked about what birds do during pre-lay, incubation, chick rearing and fledging. Then [...]

By |2016-06-02T19:37:15+00:00June 2, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Fourth Day of Camp

Third Day of Camp

Today was action-packed. Till, Bianca and Maurice get the early-bird award for waking up this morning in the rain. We headed over to Zapani and found new [...]

By |2016-06-02T20:40:23+00:00June 2, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Third Day of Camp

First Day of Camp

Our first official day of Seabird Camp! Everyone piled into the truck at noon, and we drove over to Zapani for more least auklet captures. The foxes [...]

By |2016-06-02T18:47:32+00:00May 31, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on First Day of Camp

More Least Auklet capture

The day was windy, but sunny. Bianca got up early to join us for a morning least auklet capture session. We were treated to great views of [...]

By |2016-06-02T18:48:43+00:00May 31, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on More Least Auklet capture

We made it to St. George

The fog cooperated, and we made it to St. George! It’s fairly quiet here. The fur seals aren’t really around in any numbers, and there are hardly [...]

By |2016-06-02T18:49:56+00:00May 31, 2016|Categories: 2016 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on We made it to St. George
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