Alaska Bird Conference

Congratulations to Ashley Kushin (Mat-Su Career and Technical High School) and Bay Rose Kauffman (Wasilla High School) for presenting a poster at the Alaska Bird Conference in Anchorage this [...]

By |2023-12-16T16:06:05+00:00December 15, 2023|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Alaska Bird Conference

2023 Seabird Report!

It’s Fall, and time for the Alaska Maritime Refuge’s annual Seabird Report!   Here it is: the 2023 Seabird Report Card   Background Although seabirds spend most [...]

By |2023-11-01T19:32:29+00:00November 1, 2023|Categories: Education, Uncategorized|Comments Off on 2023 Seabird Report!

2022 Seabird Report Card

It’s Fall, and time for the Alaska Maritime Refuge’s annual Seabird Report!   Here it is: the 2022 Seabird Report Card.    Background Although seabirds spend most [...]

By |2022-11-03T19:06:51+00:00November 3, 2022|Categories: Education|Comments Off on 2022 Seabird Report Card

Science Spies

Trail Cameras (also known as game cameras) are small, motion-triggered, weatherproof cameras. They can detect wildlife while you’re not around!  […]

By |2021-02-22T18:15:21+00:00February 22, 2021|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Science Spies

Volcanoes and Seabirds

Volcanoes can be disruptive, but they can also create new nesting habitat for crevice nesting auklets, like the Least Auklet, that breed on the Aleutian Islands.  Watch [...]

By |2021-02-14T22:29:10+00:00February 14, 2021|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Volcanoes and Seabirds

Flashy for the summer

Have you ever wondered why some seabird species look different in the winter? Some seabirds have bright and flashy plumage in the summer breeding season, but change [...]

By |2021-02-08T18:04:55+00:00February 8, 2021|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Flashy for the summer

What Do Seabirds Eat?

Ranger Kendra at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge explains why biologists are interested in learning what seabirds eat in this great video. […]

By |2021-02-01T16:37:45+00:00February 1, 2021|Categories: Education|Comments Off on What Do Seabirds Eat?

How much do you know?

The Seabird Fun Game features challenges in six categories: Squawk Talk, Kittiwake Shuffles, Do you know Guano?, What Bird?, Where in the World?, and Seabird Search. [...]

By |2021-01-27T16:54:10+00:00January 27, 2021|Categories: Education|Comments Off on How much do you know?

Seabird Report Card 2019

Background Although seabirds spend most of their life out at sea, all seabirds return to land to lay their eggs and raise their chicks. Breeding sites are [...]

By |2019-10-16T17:46:41+00:00October 16, 2019|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Seabird Report Card 2019

Summer 2018 on St. George

Sarah Guitart was part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge’s field team working on St. George Island this past summer.  Many thanks for sharing this report, [...]

By |2018-11-21T04:33:13+00:00November 21, 2018|Categories: Education, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Summer 2018 on St. George

Seabird Report Card 2018

Background Although seabirds spend most of their life out at sea, all seabirds return to land to lay their eggs and raise their chicks. Breeding sites are [...]

By |2018-10-22T19:27:07+00:00October 22, 2018|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Seabird Report Card 2018

The point of a murre egg

Tim Birkhead and colleagues have spent the last 6 years examining different hypotheses (possible explanations) for why common murre (also known as the common guillemot in the [...]

By |2018-08-24T15:40:35+00:00August 24, 2018|Categories: Education|Comments Off on The point of a murre egg

St. George

It’s been a privilege to spend this week on St. George. […]

By |2017-12-03T21:32:34+00:00December 3, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on St. George

Day Four on St. George

We started the day making a puffin chick bread load. Waylon even found a dried cherry with a strange shape that looked like the mini horn for [...]

By |2017-12-03T00:05:03+00:00December 1, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Day Four on St. George

Day Three on St. George

It’s dark at 8am when the kids show up, and still dark at 9:30am. Everyone starts the day with warm milk to drink, and Bianca had her [...]

By |2017-12-01T05:11:06+00:00November 30, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Day Three on St. George

Day Two at St. George

We started the day making our story sticks from yesterday’s beach outing.   Paint and yarn transformed […]

By |2017-12-01T05:43:05+00:00November 29, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Day Two at St. George
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