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 [...]
Tracing Northern Fulmars back to their colonies: Part 2
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. [...]
Commander Islands Nature and Biosphere Reserve
Marine Biologist Dr. Olga Belonovich has been using the translated Seabird Curriculum with kids on the Commander Islands. Here’s Olga’s report: […]
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 [...]
Shipwrecks, Seabirds, and the Risk of Rats
Rats often stow-away on boats, and are carried as unpaid passengers on shipping routes all over the world. […]
How do Seabirds respond to changes in the Bering Sea?
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 [...]
St. George
It’s been a privilege to spend this week 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 [...]
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 [...]
Day Two at St. George
We started the day making our story sticks from yesterday’s beach outing. Paint and yarn transformed […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. […]
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 [...]
The Odd Sea
A video of Seabird Camp's 2017 Theatre Production: The Odd Sea is now online. Enjoy!
Don’t Lose Count!
2017 was a Population Count Year on the Pribilof Islands. McKenna Hanson, a Refuge biotech working on St. George Island, explains what this entails: Click, click, click, [...]
Reflections, goodbyes, and thank you
After a couple of days in Anchorage, it was time for our friends from the Commander Islands to start their long journey home. Over a pizza supper [...]
Time in Anchorage
Our friends from the Commander Islands had an action-packed couple of days in Anchorage before flying back home. They visited the Anchorage Museum, experienced the American shopping [...]
Goodbye to St. Paul
After the thick fog of the last couple of days, we anxiously peeked out of the windows this morning… and the skies were clearer. Natalia went to [...]
Grand Finale
Saturday was foggy. St. Paul Tribal Government generously took the St. George kids back on the Lunax because the forecast for flying to St. George tomorrow was [...]
Last Day of Camp 2017
We had a morning of preparation, mixed with a few field trips. The Commander Island team went to observe the fur-seal harvest so that they can compare [...]
Seabird Camp 2017 Day 4
Our Commander Island friends had a fun morning with Sasha and Artem playing basketball in the beautiful school gym. Another incredible turn-out for camp, with 55 kids [...]
Seabird Camp 2017 Day 3
Another full day, with around 50 kids! Our Commander Island friends started off the day by teaching campers the Russian words for “puffin” “kittiwake”… and “car”. We [...]
Seabird Camp 2017 Day 2
It was a wild Tuesday on the water at Seabird Youth Network's Seabird Camp today. Just over 20 middle schoolers, high schoolers, SYN camp instructors, and adult [...]
Seabird Camp 2017 Day 1
We had amazing turnout of over 40 students at Day 1 of Seabird Youth Network's 2017 Seabird Camp! The afternoon started with a glance at what to [...]
Fantastic creations
Ram Papish and kids have been busy experimenting with new materials to make realistic teeth, whiskers and other details for this year's masks. We will have plenty [...]
Seabird Camp starts tomorrow!
Seabird Camp starts tomorrow.... Putting on the camp requires a huge team effort, and would not be possible without the support of our many partners (see below). [...]
Least Auklet capture
Seabird Camp interns joined the USFWS crew to collect least auklet diet samples. Here's the report from Destiny (age 13yrs): Today on Friday 14, 2017 Seabird interns, [...]
Population Counts
Thursday (July 13th) was spent learning about seabird population counts being conducted on St. Paul Island. Student intern, Destiny, and Ms. Kushin accompanied USFWS biologists Ryan Mong [...]
Seabird Camp interns
The week before Seabird Camp 2017 has begun in full force! On Tuesday July 11th, our student interns, Destiny Kushin and Maurice Lekanof along with Mrs. Kushin [...]
Art preparations
Seabird Camp is next week, and the team on St. Paul are busy with preparations. Here's their first report: Today (Wednesday July 12) our student interns and several other [...]
Welcome!
A huge welcome to Natalia, Aleksandr, Polina, and Artym from the Commander Islands! They've made it to Alaska! Even though the Commander Islands in Russian are only [...]
Waiting for eggs…
Rachael and Abram are on St. George Island studying red-legged kittiwakes. Even though field biologists can be totally organized with all the details for camp-life, they can’t [...]
Letters between islands
For the last 3 years, students living on the Pribilof Islands and the Commander Islands have been sharing letters. Letters are translated between Russian and English and [...]
Back on St. George
The red-legged kittiwake research team are back on St. George Island. Here’s Rachael Orben’s update on the start of their field season: Abram and I arrived on [...]
Mercury
Mercury is one of the most toxic contaminants found in the environment. It is released naturally during volcanic eruptions, however, over the last 300 years, humans have [...]
Welcome Poster
Summer is approaching, and school is almost out for the summer vacation. Students on both the Commander Islands and the Pribilofs are getting excited for summer activities. [...]
Measuring light to track seabirds
When we track birds (measure their movements) over long periods of time, it is important to use small data loggers so that individuals don’t have to carry [...]
Letters of welcome
It’s happening! Three students and one chaperone from the Commander Islands (Russia) are coming to St. Paul Island for Seabird Camp this summer! School students on St. [...]
Alaska Bird Conference
Hi, my name is Destiny and I am in seventh grade recently attending Hanshew Middle School in Anchorage. The reason I came to Cordova was to present [...]
Unangan Songs
Bering Sea Days culminated with a community event, where Aquilina Lestenkof and her Unangan Language students shared some songs, including singing happy birthday to the oldest resident [...]
Story of the Commander and Pribilof Islands
One of the highlights at the last Bering Sea Days was learning more about the historical link between the Commander and Pribilof Islands from Aquilina Lestenkof, director [...]
Fall on St. Paul
Bering Sea Days was in early October this year, and Fall on the Pribilof Islands has a very different hum to the breeding frenzy of summer life. [...]
Bering Sea Days 2016
Another week of Bering Sea Days is over! Many thanks to all the hard work of folks at the Ecosystem Conservation Office, Aleut Community of St. Paul [...]
Seabird Survivor Game
We’ve enjoyed following Catherine Pham’s journeys as she studied seabirds out at-sea over the last year. This past week, Catherine flew all the way from Hawaii to [...]
Bird art from Colorado
Students (ages 10-12) from Roxborough Primary and Intermediate School in Colorado have sent us these beautiful pieces of bird art to share with students on the Pribilof Islands. [...]
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. […]