We began the final day of Art Camp making seabird models for our Seabird Colony Diorama. We placed each seabird on the cliffs in the appropriate nesting [...]

We started the day by creating pop-up cards. The outside of the cards featured blue or green murre eggs. The eggs cracked and out popped murre chicks! [...]

We kicked of an eventful first day of Art and Seabird Camp by creating puffin-shaped boats. Building “The Puffin Boat” includes origami, coloring, cutting out multiple stencils [...]

We started the day by gathering flowers, dried grasses and other found objects to finish construction of our artificial seabird nesting cliff. The cliff is full of [...]

Today we had a small number of participants come check out some seaduck stomach samples. Thanks to Amos Philemonoff and Anthony Kushin for gathering and keeping these [...]

During the misty early morning, Seabird Camp Intern Ashley Kushin joined her cousin Destiny Kushin, who is working with ACSPI’s Ecosystem Conservation Department, under the Reef Cliffs [...]

The 2022 St George Art and Seabird Camp will feature several newly-invented paper crafts, a simulated sea monitoring activity and a mural themed “St. George in My [...]

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Seabird Camp 2022 has been changed from the traditional all ages kid afternoon day camp followed by a weekend teen overnight camp to [...]

Our final Seabird Camp activity was making Tufted Puffin Planes! We talked about how the puffin swims easier in the water than it flies in the air. [...]

Thanks to previous years’ Seabird Camps and other science-promoting programs like the Youth Conservation Corps., we have some homegrown seabird experts. The kids who come out of [...]

Wednesday July 15 Today I had one student show up at 1. As I was setting up a video on the big screen, the room quietly filled [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ann’s stuck on St. George… again. With an extra week on the island, we’ve been able to do a couple of good hikes with the kids, more [...]

On Saturday we enjoyed what may have been our best theater shows yet! Many of the younger kids arrived early and went straight to their spots. In [...]

It’s been a busy last few days on St. George. We’ve put some long hours in down at the red-legged kittiwake cliffs looking for banded and geolocator [...]

We started Seabird Camp today with an exploration of bird eggs. Campers tried to match a wide variety of birds to the eggs placed around the Science [...]

We started camp Thursday with a rousing game of Habitat Relay. Each team had to collect all aspects of their seabird’s survival and habitat needs and then [...]

The St. George Seabird Intern team re-sighted the red-legged kittiwakes again today. After three hours watching for banded birds, we ended up with eight birds with colored [...]

Tuesday night we moved forward with the auklet nest boxes by doing more construction and putting a solid grey stain on four of the assembled units. The [...]

     We changed plans for the start of camp to go see a very rare visitor. All the campers slowly and quietly crawled to the edge [...]

The second week of St. George Seabird Intern work has begun. Yesterday we had a long day in the field. We started off down below the red-legged [...]

After showing impressive memory skills in our seabird matching game, it was time for the older kids to go on their research field trips. One group found [...]

After an introduction to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, we played a fun playground game that left everyone with a solid understanding of the different aspects [...]

Several scientists arrived on St. Paul by plane to meet up with the boat. They were gracious enough to come to our Seabird Camp kickoff on Saturday [...]