Day One
Today marked the first day of the Seabird Youth Network Seabird Camp on St. Paul Island. Students arrived...(over 30 of them!)Began the day at the Civic Center with [...]
Camp preparation
Seabird Camp starts tomorrow on both St. Paul and St. George Island! Weather has been super foggy on St. George this summer… only 2 flights have made [...]
What do Auklets eat?
Students at the Pribilof Island Seabird Camps will be helping researchers catch Least Auklets to collect food samples this summer. Least auklets eat zooplankton (small animals that [...]
Seabird Real Estate
Most folk are familiar with backyard nest boxes for land birds, such as chickadees and swallows, but few are aware that nest boxes for seabirds also exist. [...]
Cliff Safety
The countdown for summer camps begins... What should I think about when I am on the cliffs? 1) Keep back from cliff edges - a slip or [...]
Seabird Documentary
St. Paul Students Create Seabird Documentary. Alaska Daily News: Spirit of Youth Alaska Public Media, June 2013
Seabird Summer Camps
We're gearing up for the Seabird Summer Camps on both St. George and St. Paul Island. And, we're excited that high school students from Homer and Cordova [...]
The Movie
6th-7th grade students on St. Paul spent the last school year learning about seabirds. As a grand finale in May, they worked with the Alaska Teen Media Institute [...]
Safety Practices
Tonia Kushin and students learn safety practices for hunting seabirds for subsistence use from Paul Meolovidov (Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Ecosystem Conservation Office).
Paul Melovidov
Paul Melovidov, with the Tribal Government of St. Paul, visits the 6th and 7th grade class to teach them about the cultural use of seabirds and ways to [...]
Tonia Kushin
Teacher, Tonia Kushin, learns hunter safety tips during a seabird cultural use lesson by members of the Aleut Community of St. Paul, Tribal Government.
Edible Nests!
6th and 7th Grade students at St. Paul make edible seabird nests...
Preston Zacharof
Preston mimics fox predation!
Snowy Field Outing
St. Paul students visit the cliffs during a snowy day in May, during the Alaska Teen Media training days. Students took video footage of the seabirds to include in [...]
Chicken
Students on St. Paul play "Chicken" in the Bering Sea during one of the last days of the school year.
Ann Harding and Baby Leif
Ann Harding and Leif during the St. Paul Alaska Teen Media training days
Jake
Summer starts on St. Paul! Beach time during the last week of school
Learning IMovie
6th and 7th grade students on St. Paul learn iMovie during the Alaska Teen Media training days.
School Mascot
The school mascot at St. Paul is the Puffin!
Basketball
Basket Ball court at the school on St. Paul. The school mascot is the puffin.
St. Paul field trip
Students at St. Paul visit the least auklet colony... 5 mins walk from school! Birds had just returned to the colony after a winter at sea.
Mosaic
Students at St. Paul made this beautiful mosaic with visiting Fairbanks artist, Sarah Tabbert.
Aquilina Lestenkof
Director of the Aleut community of St. Paul island Tribal Government talks to 6th and 7th grade students about the cultural significance of seabirds on the Pribilof [...]
Team Jump
6 and 7th grade students from St. Paul Island, Tonia Kushin, Ann Harding, and baby Leif. Photo taken during the May Alaska Teen Media visit. Students spent [...]
Kiana Melovidov
Kiana documenting seabirds on St. Paul Island
Trudi Kochutin
Trudi learns about photography from Rosey Robards, Alaska Teen Media Institute
Chuchkii return!
Thousands of Least Auklets, also known as Chuchkii, are back on the Pribilof Islands! This photo was taken on St. Paul island on May 5. Check out [...]
Birds are Back!
Seabird colonies all over the Northern Hemisphere are starting to come alive again with the sound of birds, and there are reports of kittiwakes, puffins and auklets [...]
Chico!
Seabird excitement in Chico, California! Ann Harding recently skyped with two 7th grade classes in Chico, sharing stories about the Pribilof Island Seabird Youth Network and seabird [...]
Cream Cheese Penguins!
Make these olive and cream cheese penguins in celebration of World Penguin Day!
Stress
Are seabirds finding enough food to eat? The Seabird Youth Network is collaborating with Dr. Sasha Kitaysky at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, this coming summer, collecting [...]
World Penguin Day!
There really is a World Penguin Day, and it's today! Lots of penguin excitement out there today.. check it out Celebrate World Penguin Day with Pew Bird [...]
Monitoring..why and how?
Marc Romano is a wildlife biologist for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Pribilof Islands. Students on the Pribilof Islands spent March learning about the different methods [...]
Marine Indicators
This month, students on the Pribilof Islands are learning about the use of Seabirds as Indicators of the Marine Environment. How can seabirds be good indicators? Studies [...]
Cultural Use of Seabirds
Students at St. Paul design posters about the cultural use of seabirds
Counting at sea
Adrian Gall is a Research Biologist with the consulting firm ABR (Alaska Biological Research). Adrian is an expert in conducting boat-based marine bird and mammal surveys, and [...]
Cultural Lesson Video
Students at St. Paul recently met with Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (Tribal) Education and Ecosystem Conservation folks to discuss the cultural, historic, and current uses [...]
Interview with Shiway Wang
Shiway is an expert in taking a small fat sample from live, wild seabirds and using this fat sample to find out what the bird has been [...]
Tracking Seabirds Using Geolocation
Tracking Seabirds using Geolocation Data loggers; an interview with Rachael Orben, PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz. Seabirds spend the majority of their lives at [...]
Carmen and William
Carmen Philemonoff and William Lekanof are the two oldest students at the St. George Island school.
Local Lore
Students at St. Paul recently met with Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (Tribal) Education and Ecosystem Conservation folks to discuss the cultural, historic, and current uses [...]
Bird Cams
This month, we're learning about methods used to research seabirds. Video recorders are getting small and light enough to attach to some of the larger seabirds. Bird [...]
Outer space
The first ever penguin census from space has shown there may be twice as many Emperor Penguins living in the Antarctic than previously thoughtThe study, led by British [...]
Crested Auklet
The Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella) nests in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. Like the other auklets, Crested Auklets lay their single egg in a [...]
Flying Fish
Parents of many species of seabird carry back whole prey items to feed their chick at the colony. Researchers can use binoculars, telescopes, or take photos of [...]
GPS loggers
Interview with DR. Rosana Paredes What is your job? Research biologist Why do people use GPS loggers to study seabirds? GPS loggers can tell us about the [...]
Plotting a GPS track
Dr. Rosana Paredes has been using GPS loggers to find out where thick-billed murres and black-legged kittiwakes breeding on the Pribilof Islands travel to at sea. Read [...]
Greek Mythology
Seabirds even play a role in Greek Mythology.... In Greek mythology, Daedalus made wings for himself and his young son Icarus to escape from where they were [...]
Seabird Guano Fertilizer!
The word "guano" originates from the South American Andes, and means "the droppings of sea birds" Seabird guano is a prized fertilizer due to its high phosphorus [...]