Basketball
Basket Ball court at the school on St. Paul. The school mascot is the puffin.
St. Paul field trip
Students at St. Paul visit the least auklet colony... 5 mins walk from school! Birds had just returned to the colony after a winter at sea.
Mosaic
Students at St. Paul made this beautiful mosaic with visiting Fairbanks artist, Sarah Tabbert.
Aquilina Lestenkof
Director of the Aleut community of St. Paul island Tribal Government talks to 6th and 7th grade students about the cultural significance of seabirds on the Pribilof [...]
Team Jump
6 and 7th grade students from St. Paul Island, Tonia Kushin, Ann Harding, and baby Leif. Photo taken during the May Alaska Teen Media visit. Students spent [...]
Kiana Melovidov
Kiana documenting seabirds on St. Paul Island
Trudi Kochutin
Trudi learns about photography from Rosey Robards, Alaska Teen Media Institute
Chuchkii return!
Thousands of Least Auklets, also known as Chuchkii, are back on the Pribilof Islands! This photo was taken on St. Paul island on May 5. Check out [...]
Birds are Back!
Seabird colonies all over the Northern Hemisphere are starting to come alive again with the sound of birds, and there are reports of kittiwakes, puffins and auklets [...]
Chico!
Seabird excitement in Chico, California! Ann Harding recently skyped with two 7th grade classes in Chico, sharing stories about the Pribilof Island Seabird Youth Network and seabird [...]
Cream Cheese Penguins!
Make these olive and cream cheese penguins in celebration of World Penguin Day!
Stress
Are seabirds finding enough food to eat? The Seabird Youth Network is collaborating with Dr. Sasha Kitaysky at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, this coming summer, collecting [...]
World Penguin Day!
There really is a World Penguin Day, and it's today! Lots of penguin excitement out there today.. check it out Celebrate World Penguin Day with Pew Bird [...]
Monitoring..why and how?
Marc Romano is a wildlife biologist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Pribilof Islands. Students on the Pribilof Islands spent March learning about the different methods [...]
Marine Indicators
This month, students on the Pribilof Islands are learning about the use of Seabirds as Indicators of the Marine Environment. How can seabirds be good indicators? Studies [...]
Cultural Use of Seabirds
Students at St. Paul design posters about the cultural use of seabirds
Counting at sea
Adrian Gall is a Research Biologist with the consulting firm ABR (Alaska Biological Research). Adrian is an expert in conducting boat-based marine bird and mammal surveys, and [...]
Cultural Lesson Video
Students at St. Paul recently met with Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (Tribal) Education and Ecosystem Conservation folks to discuss the cultural, historic, and current uses [...]
Interview with Shiway Wang
Shiway is an expert in taking a small fat sample from live, wild seabirds and using this fat sample to find out what the bird has been [...]
Tracking Seabirds Using Geolocation
Tracking Seabirds using Geolocation Data loggers; an interview with Rachael Orben, PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz. Seabirds spend the majority of their lives at [...]
Carmen and William
Carmen Philemonoff and William Lekanof are the two oldest students at the St. George Island school.
Local Lore
Students at St. Paul recently met with Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (Tribal) Education and Ecosystem Conservation folks to discuss the cultural, historic, and current uses [...]
Bird Cams
This month, we're learning about methods used to research seabirds. Video recorders are getting small and light enough to attach to some of the larger seabirds. Bird [...]
Outer space
The first ever penguin census from space has shown there may be twice as many Emperor Penguins living in the Antarctic than previously thoughtThe study, led by British [...]
Crested Auklet
The Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella) nests in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. Like the other auklets, Crested Auklets lay their single egg in a [...]
Flying Fish
Parents of many species of seabird carry back whole prey items to feed their chick at the colony. Researchers can use binoculars, telescopes, or take photos of [...]
GPS loggers
Interview with DR. Rosana Paredes What is your job? Research biologist Why do people use GPS loggers to study seabirds? GPS loggers can tell us about the [...]
Plotting a GPS track
Dr. Rosana Paredes has been using GPS loggers to find out where thick-billed murres and black-legged kittiwakes breeding on the Pribilof Islands travel to at sea. Read [...]
Greek Mythology
Seabirds even play a role in Greek Mythology.... In Greek mythology, Daedalus made wings for himself and his young son Icarus to escape from where they were [...]
Seabird Guano Fertilizer!
The word "guano" originates from the South American Andes, and means "the droppings of sea birds" Seabird guano is a prized fertilizer due to its high phosphorus [...]
The smelliest seabird recipe
Are seabirds useful, tasty, or economically important for humans? What are some seabird myths and legends? This month we're learning about the importance of seabirds in human [...]
Cooking King Eider Video
This month we're learning about the importance of seabirds in human communities. The king eider is a spectacular sea duck that breeds along the Arctic coasts of North [...]
Getting Scientists Out
Looking over the crowd listening intently to someone describe plankton blooms for 15 minutes it was hard not to wonder whether I was trapped in a room [...]
Science Fair Project ideas
Science Fairs are just around the corner. Here are some links to some great project ideas related to birds, seabirds, marine biology and conservation. (1) How does [...]
The weight of 50 elephants
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) picked up enough marine debris to equal the weight of 50 elephants in only one month. Imagine how much debris that [...]
Sweaters for penguins
How do you design a sweater for a penguin? A novel response to an oil spill in New Zealand Click here to read more
Seabird Bycatch
Fisheries bycatch is the greatest threat to many seabird populations (tuna long-liner pictured above), especially albatross. Seabirds are attracted to fishing boats because of the bait and discarded [...]
Marine Plastic Debris
We’re leaning about seabird conservation issues this month. Seabirds face a range of dangers, including plastic debris in the ocean. Plastic eaten by albatross chick: © ecogreen4us, Creative [...]
Marine Conservation Lesson
January's lesson on Marine Conservation now online
Seabird Learning expands
Yay! Students at St. George are starting to learn more about seabirds this winter through regular Skype meetings with the two oldest students - Carmen Philemonoff and [...]
Edible Seabird Nests
Students on St. Paul make edible seabird nests. Enjoy! Edible Bird Nest Recipe: 8 marshmallows; 4 regular/4 coconut 2 tablespoons butter ½ cup rice krispies 1½ cup Chinese [...]
Answers for St. Paul
Great to receive all your questions! Keep them coming! 1) Jaycee: Yes, you are right: there are lots of similarities between black guillemots and common murres. [...]
Emperor Penguin video
Check out this incredible footage of emperor penguins both underwater and exiting the water at top speed!
Sea-ice extent effects seabird
Black guillemots breeding in an Arctic Alaska colony feed their chicks on polar cod. These small fish are associated with the polar pack ice, and therefore may [...]
Seabird breeding videos
This month, we're learning about seabird breeding Below are some links to videos for a number of breeding seabirds. Look at the diversity in nesting habitat. Which [...]
Seabird breeding questions
Students on the Pribilofs are learning about seabird breeding this month. Each student has chosen a seabird species that breeds on the Pribilof Islands, and they will [...]
Parakeet & Crested Auklet
The Parakeet Auklet and Crested Auklet both nest on the Pribilof Islands. They are similar in size, but you can easily tell these two species apart. Can [...]
Bird Island Field Work
Jerry Gillham has recently started a new job studying penguins and giant petrels on Bird Island. Bird Island is a British Territory in South Georgia. Thousands of [...]
Questions.. answers
Answers to a couple of questions asked this week: How many eggs do Fulmars lay? Fulmars lay a single white egg. How long do Least Auklets live? [...]