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 [...]

By |2019-06-02T16:20:11+00:00June 2, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on St. George, thank you!

St. George Island: Day 6

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 [...]

By |2019-05-30T17:18:16+00:00May 30, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on St. George Island: Day 6

St. George: Day Five

 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 [...]

By |2019-05-29T17:26:32+00:00May 29, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on St. George: Day Five

St. George: Day Four

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 [...]

By |2019-05-28T17:55:11+00:00May 28, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on St. George: Day Four

Least Auklet Attendance Watch

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 [...]

By |2019-05-27T16:48:11+00:00May 27, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on Least Auklet Attendance Watch

Rain, cameras, and masks

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 [...]

By |2019-05-26T17:26:45+00:00May 26, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on Rain, cameras, and masks

APICDA Seabird internship: Year Two

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, [...]

By |2019-05-26T00:02:47+00:00May 26, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on APICDA Seabird internship: Year Two

Summer 2018 on St. George

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, [...]

By |2018-11-21T04:33:13+00:00November 21, 2018|Categories: Education, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Summer 2018 on St. George

Seabird Report Card 2018

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 [...]

By |2018-10-22T19:27:07+00:00October 22, 2018|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Seabird Report Card 2018

Tufted Puffins

Tufted Puffins spend their winters far from land throughout the North Pacific, but scientists don’t know much about their life out at sea. […]

By |2018-09-21T19:54:19+00:00September 21, 2018|Categories: Tufted Puffin winter biology|Comments Off on Tufted Puffins

The point of a murre egg

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 [...]

By |2018-08-24T15:40:35+00:00August 24, 2018|Categories: Education|Comments Off on The point of a murre egg

Commander Island Summer Camp 2018

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 [...]

By |2018-08-23T17:45:38+00:00August 23, 2018|Categories: Commander Islands|Comments Off on Commander Island Summer Camp 2018

Weekend on St. George

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 [...]

By |2018-06-09T23:01:07+00:00June 9, 2018|Categories: 2018 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Weekend on St. George

Friday Seabird Fun

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 [...]

By |2018-06-09T22:57:17+00:00June 9, 2018|Categories: 2018 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Friday Seabird Fun

Trouble in the Arctic

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 [...]

By |2018-06-09T04:54:48+00:00June 9, 2018|Categories: 2018 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Trouble in the Arctic

Day Two…Continued

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 [...]

By |2018-06-09T04:46:12+00:00June 9, 2018|Categories: 2018 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Day Two…Continued

Tuesday Seabird Camp

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 [...]

By |2018-06-07T00:17:03+00:00June 7, 2018|Categories: 2018 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on Tuesday Seabird Camp

St. George Intern Program

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 [...]

By |2018-05-22T22:26:18+00:00May 22, 2018|Categories: 2018 Seabird Camps|Comments Off on St. George Intern Program

Northern Fulmars

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 [...]

By |2018-04-30T15:04:14+00:00April 30, 2018|Categories: Fulmar Genetics|Comments Off on Northern Fulmars

St. George

It’s been a privilege to spend this week on St. George. […]

By |2017-12-03T21:32:34+00:00December 3, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on St. George

Day Four 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 [...]

By |2017-12-03T00:05:03+00:00December 1, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Day Four on St. George

Day Three on St. George

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 [...]

By |2017-12-01T05:11:06+00:00November 30, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Day Three on St. George

Day Two at St. George

We started the day making our story sticks from yesterday’s beach outing.   Paint and yarn transformed […]

By |2017-12-01T05:43:05+00:00November 29, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Day Two at St. George

November on St. George

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 [...]

By |2017-11-29T19:58:00+00:00November 29, 2017|Categories: Education, Uncategorized|Comments Off on November on St. George

Seabird Report Card 2017

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 [...]

By |2018-10-22T19:27:53+00:00November 16, 2017|Categories: Education, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Seabird Report Card 2017

Fall on St. Paul Island

St. Paul Island is always spectacular, even in cruddy weather, and the week of Bering Sea Days was no exception. […]

By |2017-10-17T20:33:49+00:00October 17, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|Comments Off on Fall on St. Paul Island

Bering Sea Days 2017

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 [...]

By |2017-10-17T05:32:21+00:00October 16, 2017|Categories: Education|Comments Off on Bering Sea Days 2017
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