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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thirty-seven kids packed the St. Paul School’s Science Room on Monday to learn about seabirds, shorebirds and how they all find food. […]
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 [...]
Today Chauncey and Carley learned all about how U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service keeps track of seabird nesting on St. Paul. […]
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 [...]
Update from Rachael and Abram on St. George Island We saw our first red-legged kittiwake egg today! Abram spotted the egg as we watched a bird we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Biologists from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) and Tokyo, Japan, are starting a new seabird research project on St. Lawrence Island this summer. St. Lawrence Island [...]
Where do red-legged kittiwakes forage before they lay their eggs? No one really knew the answer to this question until Rachael Orben and team deployed GPS dataloggers [...]
We’re excited for the 2017 Seabird Camp. В предвкушении встречи в Лагере Морской Птицы 2017. […]
What is a central-place forging trip? Red-legged kittiwakes are birds and therefore they lay eggs to reproduce. And, an egg needs to be kept warm for the [...]
St George Island is home to roughly half a million red-legged kittiwakes and the majority of these birds nest on the north facing cliffs of the island. [...]
Last summer, Rachael Orben and Abram Fleishman attached GPS loggers to red-legged kittiwakes on St. George Island to find out where they were finding food during both the [...]
Some recent fun activities at the school on St. Paul Island. Недавние увлекательные занятия на острове Святого Павла. Above: The fire department came to our school and [...]
Students living on St. Paul Island (Pribilofs) and Bering Island (the Commanders) are enjoying getting to know each other through pen-pal letters. Учащиеся, живущие на острове Святого [...]