2020 Seabird Camp Day 2
Tuesday July 14 Today’s activities included the Voyage of the Tiglax maze, the Ocean Habitat booklet, and seabird rock painting. Our campus room was packed. We all [...]
2020 Seabird Camp Day 1
Monday July 13 Seabird Camp 2020 kicked off today with a Town Orienteering Scavenger Hunt. Tonia and Ashley Kushin put together the activity and I set it [...]
Bird art from St. Paul Island
Middle and high-school students on St. Paul Island made these stunning art pieces for the annual US Fish and Wildlife migratory bird calendar. […]
New funding for Commander-Pribilof Island links
In 2015 we were funded by the National Park Service’s (NPS) Shared Beringian Heritage Program to work closely with biologists and the municipality of Nikolskoye on the [...]
Where do puffins spend their winter?
Researchers at Prince William Sound Science Center have started to look their first year of puffin tracking data. The group is interested in learning where adult Tufted [...]
St. Paul Island student sketches
During Seabird Camp 2019, St. Paul Island students worked on some sketches of their home to share with friends on the Commander Islands. […]
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 [...]
Summer 2019 on St. George Island
Erin Lefkowitz 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, [...]
Commander Island Summer Camp 2019
The summer ethno-ecological camp 2019 on the Commander Islands was another great success. Students explored Bering island, covering over 130km on foot! […]
2019 Seabird Camp Final Day
Monday was a scramble to get everything together for the evening Seabird Camp Open House and Theater Productions. Some of the paint was still slightly wet as [...]
2019 SEABIRD CAMP CAMPING TRIP
Camping Trip The overnight camping trip was a new offering this year, aimed at the older kids who had already finished 6th grade. We had activities focused [...]
2019 SEABIRD CAMP DAY FOUR
Learning Games and Play Prep To start camp today, we all practiced our counting skills, with and without clickers, on official USFWS bird survey videos. In the [...]
2019 Seabird Camp Day Three
Unangum Tuunu learning started our day, as all of the students and teachers from that program visited out classroom. We sang several Unangan language songs and used [...]
2019 Seabird Camp Day Two
After some work on seabird identification coloring projects, it was time to learn more about seabird survival. The group flew down to the field next to the [...]
2019 Seabird Camp Day One
On our first day of the 2019 Seabird Camp we explored themes of seabird survival. Campers from last year refreshed their memories by playing seabird memory. The [...]
St. George, thank you!
The APICDA seabird intern work is coming to an end. Thank you to the community of St. George for your warm welcome, and to all the wonderful [...]
last couple of days on St. George
Friday’s weather was foggy, windy, and wet. A good morning for pancakes and data entry at the hotel for Thomas and Ann! […]
St. George: Kittiwakes, traps, and nest-boxes
A full day. Thomas, Ann and Karin joined the Refuge team for red-legged kittiwake resighting and capture. Wind had dropped, and all the birds were settled and [...]
St. George Island: Day 6
Back to high wind, but no rain. Thomas and Karin kept charging on the rat-trap checks, and they moved some of the far-away stations to more strategic [...]
St. George: Day Five
We woke up to dry weather! St. George is a rat-free island, and we’re working hard to keep it that way. Thomas and Karin spent a chunk [...]
St. George: Day Four
We had a full day on St. George. Thomas started the day learning more about excel and entering the least auklet count data from yesterday. We plotted [...]
Least Auklet Attendance Watch
Seabird biologists use the word “attendance” to describe the amount of time birds spend at the colony. Attendance data can provide insight into how the birds are [...]
Rain, cameras, and masks
Cordell joined us over at the harbor, and we spent a couple of hours figuring out a good plot to do an all-day Least Auklet attendance count [...]
APICDA Seabird internship: Year Two
It’s the end of May, and birds are already starting to nest on St. George Island. The kittiwakes are busy collecting nesting material, stomping on their nests, [...]
Origins of Northern Fulmar bycatch
In the spring, commercial fishing boats spread out in Alaskan waters (all the way from the Gulf of Alaska to the Aleutian Islands to the Bering Sea) [...]