St. George, thank you!
The APICDA seabird intern work is coming to an end. Thank you to the community of St. George for your warm welcome, and to all the wonderful [...]
The APICDA seabird intern work is coming to an end. Thank you to the community of St. George for your warm welcome, and to all the wonderful [...]
Friday’s weather was foggy, windy, and wet. A good morning for pancakes and data entry at the hotel for Thomas and Ann! […]
A full day. Thomas, Ann and Karin joined the Refuge team for red-legged kittiwake resighting and capture. Wind had dropped, and all the birds were settled and [...]
Back to high wind, but no rain. Thomas and Karin kept charging on the rat-trap checks, and they moved some of the far-away stations to more strategic [...]
We woke up to dry weather! St. George is a rat-free island, and we’re working hard to keep it that way. Thomas and Karin spent a chunk [...]
We had a full day on St. George. Thomas started the day learning more about excel and entering the least auklet count data from yesterday. We plotted [...]
Seabird biologists use the word “attendance” to describe the amount of time birds spend at the colony. Attendance data can provide insight into how the birds are [...]
Cordell joined us over at the harbor, and we spent a couple of hours figuring out a good plot to do an all-day Least Auklet attendance count [...]
It’s the end of May, and birds are already starting to nest on St. George Island. The kittiwakes are busy collecting nesting material, stomping on their nests, [...]
In the spring, commercial fishing boats spread out in Alaskan waters (all the way from the Gulf of Alaska to the Aleutian Islands to the Bering Sea) [...]
The seasons have shifted, and birds everywhere are preparing for the nesting season by migrating back to their breeding grounds. For Tufted Puffins, seabirds of the central [...]
Each spring and fall, the North Pacific groundfish and Pacific halibut boats ramp up for their peak seasons at sea. These fisheries catch a variety of fish [...]
Sarah Guitart was part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge’s field team working on St. George Island this past summer. Many thanks for sharing this report, [...]
Background Although seabirds spend most of their life out at sea, all seabirds return to land to lay their eggs and raise their chicks. Breeding sites are [...]
Tufted Puffins spend their winters far from land throughout the North Pacific, but scientists don’t know much about their life out at sea. […]
Tim Birkhead and colleagues have spent the last 6 years examining different hypotheses (possible explanations) for why common murre (also known as the common guillemot in the [...]
The summer ethno-ecological camp “Aglach 2018″ on the Commander Islands was another great success. Students explored Bering island, covering over 130km on foot! Natalia Formina, camp [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a stormy weekend, and a good time to catch up on things. Maurice, Thomas, and Ann met on Saturday afternoon and entered Rachael’s kittiwake resighting [...]
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 [...]
Our crew consists of Sonia Merculief, Courtney Lestenkof, and Maxim Zacharof working under the supervision of crew leaders Kendra Bush and Tonia Kushin. Our crew has been [...]
Friday was beautiful weather. We had two pre-schoolers for the morning art session. We talked about puffins and red-legged kittiwakes, and then got creative with paper plates. [...]
We all met at the Rec Hall on Thursday. Thomas led everyone through some stretching, before a short run around town. Warmed up, we talked about seabird [...]
There are no rats on the Pribilof Islands, and we need to keep it that way! Rat trap stations are set-up all around the harbor on St. [...]
Maurice and Thomas are signed up as APICDA interns, and we started work today. The day was a little windy, but we had some great spells of [...]
Ann will be flying to St. George next week to work with three student interns. These intern positions are funded through the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development [...]
Graduate student Diana Baetscher (from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)) has been hard at work this past year. [...]
Marine Biologist Dr. Olga Belonovich has been using the translated Seabird Curriculum with kids on the Commander Islands. Here’s Olga’s report: […]
Tracing Northern Fulmars caught as fishery by catch back to their colonies. Over the next couple of years, the Seabird Youth Network will be sharing the results [...]
Rats often stow-away on boats, and are carried as unpaid passengers on shipping routes all over the world. […]
Scientists are working all over the world, exploring questions on every subject imaginable. A critical part of being a scientist is sharing your findings in a scientific [...]
It’s been a privilege to spend this week on St. George. […]
We started the day making a puffin chick bread load. Waylon even found a dried cherry with a strange shape that looked like the mini horn for [...]
It’s dark at 8am when the kids show up, and still dark at 9:30am. Everyone starts the day with warm milk to drink, and Bianca had her [...]
We started the day making our story sticks from yesterday’s beach outing. Paint and yarn transformed […]
I had plans to fly to St. George Island straight after Thanksgiving, to spend a week with the kids doing some fun seabird activities. Flying this time [...]
Background Although seabirds spend most of their life out at sea, all seabirds return to land to lay their eggs and raise their chicks. Breeding sites are [...]
St. Paul Island is always spectacular, even in cruddy weather, and the week of Bering Sea Days was no exception. […]
2017 is the tenth anniversary of Bering Sea Days on St. Paul Island Bering Sea Days is a weeklong program hosted by the Ecosystem Conservation Office, Aleut [...]
A video of Seabird Camp's 2017 Theatre Production: The Odd Sea is now online. Enjoy!