St. Paul Seabird Camp 2026 Bonus
Seabird Camp Bonus Post! The science room is empty and clean, supplies are packed in their totes in Garco, and the seabird helmets are back on their [...]
St. Paul Seabird Camp 2026 Day 5
Seabird Camp Day 5 Music! Masks! Action! Or is that helmets? It was our last day of camp and was full of wrap-up activities. We went [...]
St. Paul Seabird Camp 2026 Day 4
Seabird Camp Day 4 Seabirds and people! Today we explored the different ways that St. Paul’s seabirds are important to people. Destiny facilitated a discussion about [...]
St. Paul Seabird Camp 2026 Day 3
Seabird Camp Day 3 Nesting niches. Today we explored how seabirds share space on the cliff and dove into some serious craft projects. First, a huge thank [...]
St. Paul Seabird Camp 2026 Day 2
Seabird Camp Day 2 Today was so much fun! We explored what the sensational seabirds of St. Paul eat. First, we took a big picture view of [...]
St. Paul Seabird Camp 2026
Under high overcast skies and calm winds our 2026 participants entered the science room for day one of seabird camp. “Hey, I remember you.” “Are we going [...]
2025 Seabird Camp Day 4
FOURTH DAY! It’s hard to believe, but today was our last day of Seabird Camp and we made sure to pack it full of fun, creativity, and [...]
2025 Seabird Camp Day 3
THIRD DAY! Thursday kicked off another action-packed day at Seabird Camp with some play prep and costume/prop making! Campers let their creativity shine before switching gears to [...]
2025 Seabird Camp Day 2
SECOND DAY! Today was another awesome day at Seabird Camp, packed with learning, creativity, and outdoor fun! We started the afternoon by turning our cookie tree wood [...]
2025 Seabird Camp Day 1
FIRST DAY! Seabird Camp Monday: Exploring, Learning, and Soaring into Science- June 23.2025 Today at Seabird Camp, our young explorers kicked off their week with an exciting [...]
St. George Day 8
Last morning of packing, goodbyes, and starting to work on a school bulletin board that celebrates Spring. The board has a theme of red-legged kittiwakes sitting on [...]
St. George Day 7
Day Seven Peaceful weather today, and we made the most of it with some easy time outside. Emma finished her seabird finger puppets, and we talked about [...]
St. George Day 6
Beautiful sunshine and energy today. Emma learned about different seabird species that breed on the Pribilofs and started to make a few seabird finger-puppets. I was able [...]
St. George Day 5
Another windy day, but no rain or snow and the light was dramatic and bold again. It’s hard to capture the wind in photos, the way you [...]
St. George Day 4
The wind has died down slightly, and the snow has turned to rain... Emma got creative with painting wooden fish, and we read that Pacific Halibut was [...]
St. George Day 3
Stormy wintery day on St. George Island. Blowing snow and a cold strong wind made it hard to even walk outside. It was a good day to [...]
St. George Day 2
It was a stormy Saturday on St. George Island, with the west wind gusting 40-50mph; too windy for walking and too rough to be safely on the [...]
St. George Island in February: Day 1
This morning I flew from Anchorage to Unalaska, and then switched onto a smaller plane to St. George Island. I was the only one on this second [...]
Seabird Modeling and The Fun Game.
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 [...]
Murre Chicks Pop-ups and Kittiwake Landings
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! [...]
The Puffin Boat and The Big Float
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 [...]
The Grub Hub and The Magical Mural
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 [...]
St. Paul Island
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 [...]
St. Paul Island
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 [...]
Colors of the Past
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 [...]
Seabird Camp 2022
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 [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Final Day
Seabird Camp 2021 came to a close today with a family hike along the bluff at SW. A fun afternoon was had by all who joined in. [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Day 5
Friday, July 23, 2021 Today was filled to the last moment with a variety of activities. We began the afternoon with a visit from the Unangam Tuunu [...]
Final Day of Art Camp
Art Camp wrapped up on St. George with t-shirts and a puppet show! The Campers used stencils to outline designs that were enhanced with fabric paint, and [...]
2021 St. George Art Camp Day 2
Tuesday: Make Finger puppets (color, cut-out and glue). Allow time for kids to play with new finger puppets.
2021 St. George Art Camp Day 1
Monday: At St. George Seabird Art Camp kids learned about this year’s theme: Every bird has its place. They made seabird figurines out of clay and placed [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Day 4
Thursday July 22, 2021 Today was an afternoon full of Plankton and Food Chain activities. headed to the floating dock to do our own plankton tows. Thanks [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Day 3
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 This afternoon of Seabird Camp was spent on the Ridge Wall/ Southwest Point side of the Island. We were able to meet with [...]
2021 Seabird Camp Day 2
Tuesday July 20, 2021 A 2nd successful day of Seabird Camp! Today began with an activity tye-dying face masks to wear to prevent the spread of Covid [...]
First day of Seabird Camp 2021!
What a great first day of Seabird Camp 2021! We started off with some “I spy” to help focus in on the physical characteristics that help us [...]
2020 Post Camp
Credit: St. Paul Island Productions Thank you again to everyone that made virtual seabird camp a success - Mylisa Zacharof, Tonia Kushin, Kendra Bush, [...]
2020 Seabird Camp Day 5
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. [...]
2020 Seabird Camp Day 4
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 [...]
2020 Seabird Camp Day 3
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Catching Red-legged Kittiwakes
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 [...]
Showtime at the Rec Hall
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 [...]
Last few days on interning at St. George
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 [...]