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 [...]
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. […]
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 [...]
Painting skins
Art-camp continues on St. George Island. Today’s camp featured painting on Northern fur seal skins. […]
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 [...]
Showtime!
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, [...]
Day Five of Camp
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 [...]
Day four of camp
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 [...]
Day Three of Camp
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 [...]
Day Two of Camp
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 [...]
First Day of Camp
Thirty-seven kids packed the St. Paul School’s Science Room on Monday to learn about seabirds, shorebirds and how they all find food. […]
Field work continues
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 [...]
“I see an egg!”
Today Chauncey and Carley learned all about how U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service keeps track of seabird nesting on St. Paul. […]
First Day with Interns
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 [...]
Last Day of Camp
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 [...]
Fourth Day of Camp
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 [...]
Third Day of Camp
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 [...]
First Day of Camp
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 [...]
More Least Auklet capture
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 [...]
We made it to St. George
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 [...]