Fantastic creations

Ram Papish and kids have been busy experimenting with new materials to make realistic teeth, whiskers and other details for this year's masks. We will have plenty [...]

By |2017-07-17T18:14:38+00:00July 17, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Fantastic creations

Seabird Camp starts tomorrow!

Seabird Camp starts tomorrow.... Putting on the camp requires a huge team effort, and would not be possible without the support of our many partners (see below). [...]

By |2017-07-16T19:26:25+00:00July 16, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp starts tomorrow!

Least Auklet capture

Seabird Camp interns joined the USFWS crew to collect least auklet diet samples.  Here's the report from Destiny (age 13yrs): Today on Friday 14, 2017 Seabird interns, [...]

By |2017-07-16T16:42:14+00:00July 16, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Least Auklet capture

Population Counts

Thursday (July 13th) was spent learning about seabird population counts being conducted on St. Paul Island. Student intern, Destiny, and Ms. Kushin accompanied USFWS biologists Ryan Mong [...]

By |2017-07-16T01:43:26+00:00July 16, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Population Counts

Seabird Camp interns

The week before Seabird Camp 2017 has begun in full force! On Tuesday July 11th, our student interns, Destiny Kushin and Maurice Lekanof along with Mrs. Kushin [...]

By |2017-07-13T21:17:28+00:00July 13, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Seabird Camp interns

Art preparations

Seabird Camp is next week, and the team on St. Paul are busy with preparations. Here's their first report: Today (Wednesday July 12) our student interns and several other [...]

By |2017-07-13T20:59:17+00:00July 13, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Art preparations

Welcome!

A huge welcome to Natalia, Aleksandr, Polina, and Artym from the Commander Islands! They've made it to Alaska! Even though the Commander Islands in Russian are only [...]

By |2017-07-13T20:49:40+00:00July 13, 2017|Categories: 2017 Seabird Camps, Commander Islands|Comments Off on Welcome!

Waiting for eggs…

Rachael and Abram are on St. George Island studying red-legged kittiwakes.  Even though field biologists can be totally organized with all the details for camp-life, they can’t [...]

By |2017-07-08T22:14:51+00:00July 8, 2017|Categories: Education, Kittiwake Behavior|Comments Off on Waiting for eggs…

Letters between islands

For the last 3 years, students living on the Pribilof Islands and the Commander Islands have been sharing letters. Letters are translated between Russian and English and [...]

By |2017-06-21T20:40:11+00:00June 21, 2017|Categories: Commander Islands, Education|Comments Off on Letters between islands

Back on St. George

The red-legged kittiwake research team are back on St. George Island.  Here’s Rachael Orben’s update on the start of their field season: Abram and I arrived on [...]

By |2017-06-08T15:38:43+00:00June 8, 2017|Categories: Education, Kittiwake Behavior|Comments Off on Back on St. George

Mercury

Mercury is one of the most toxic contaminants found in the environment. It is released naturally during volcanic eruptions, however, over the last 300 years, humans have [...]

By |2017-05-26T18:04:29+00:00May 26, 2017|Categories: Education, Kittiwake Behavior|Comments Off on Mercury

Welcome Poster

Summer is approaching, and school is almost out for the summer vacation. Students on both the Commander Islands and the Pribilofs are getting excited for summer activities. [...]

By |2017-05-19T19:12:30+00:00May 19, 2017|Categories: Commander Islands, Education|Comments Off on Welcome Poster

Letters of welcome

 It’s happening! Three students and one chaperone from the Commander Islands (Russia) are coming to St. Paul Island for Seabird Camp this summer! School students on St. [...]

By |2017-04-14T15:48:22+00:00April 14, 2017|Categories: Commander Islands|Comments Off on Letters of welcome

Alaska Bird Conference

Hi, my name is Destiny and I am in seventh grade recently attending Hanshew Middle School in Anchorage. The reason I came to Cordova was to present [...]

By |2016-12-21T19:52:02+00:00December 21, 2016|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Alaska Bird Conference

Unangan Songs

Bering Sea Days culminated with a community event, where Aquilina Lestenkof and her Unangan Language students shared some songs, including singing happy birthday to the oldest resident [...]

By |2016-12-21T19:33:48+00:00December 21, 2016|Categories: Commander Islands|Comments Off on Unangan Songs

Fall on St. Paul

Bering Sea Days was in early October this year, and Fall on the Pribilof Islands has a very different hum to the breeding frenzy of summer life. [...]

By |2016-10-12T04:38:40+00:00October 12, 2016|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Fall on St. Paul

Bering Sea Days 2016

Another week of Bering Sea Days is over! Many thanks to all the hard work of folks at the Ecosystem Conservation Office, Aleut Community of St. Paul [...]

By |2016-10-12T04:22:51+00:00October 12, 2016|Categories: Education, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Bering Sea Days 2016

Seabird Survivor Game

We’ve enjoyed following Catherine Pham’s journeys as she studied seabirds out at-sea over the last year. This past week, Catherine flew all the way from Hawaii to [...]

By |2016-10-10T20:41:29+00:00October 10, 2016|Categories: At-sea research, Education|Comments Off on Seabird Survivor Game

Bird art from Colorado

Students (ages 10-12) from Roxborough Primary and Intermediate School in Colorado have sent us these beautiful pieces of bird art to share with students on the Pribilof Islands. [...]

By |2016-08-08T14:26:59+00:00August 8, 2016|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on Bird art from Colorado

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
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