Refuge notebook: Rare birds punctuate the quiet of winter

01/10/13 - 6:47pm

Local birders participated in the 113th Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) on Saturday, December 15, 2012. The Soldotna count circle overlays portions of Soldotna, Kenai, and Kasilof. Although a respectable total of 35 species were detected during count week (December 12-18), no new or otherwise remarkable species were found.

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112th Christmas Bird Count: New circle means new birds

03/23/12 - 9:10am

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is an early-winter continental bird census where volunteers count and identify all birds they observe within a 15-mile diameter count circle, on one day, between December 14 and January 5. Annually, there are approximately 60,000 participants counting in over 2,000 circles throughout the United States and Canada. The latest Soldotna CBC was held on December 17, 2011.

"Ultra" rare Eurasian bird discovered along Seward beachfront

11/25/11 - 10:25am

On Nov. 15, Seward resident Jim Herbert was walking the beach on the south side of Lowell Point, exercising his dogs while trying to escape the fierce 60 mile an hour north winds that were sweeping Seward and Resurrection Bay. The south facing beach was relatively sheltered from the full brunt of the north winds but intermittent, gusty winds still swept the cold beach.

Albatrosses of the Gulf Of Alaska

06/07/11 - 9:23am

I recently returned from a two week assignment in the Gulf of Alaska where I surveyed the area’s abundant seabirds during late April and early May — during spring migration and the Gulf’s transition from winter to spring. Inshore, nearshore, and offshore marine habitats were all surveyed aboard the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s research vessel M/V Tiglax.

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Refuge notebook: Rare birds punctuate the quiet of winter

112th Christmas Bird Count: New circle means new birds

"Ultra" rare Eurasian bird discovered along Seward beachfront

Albatrosses of the Gulf Of Alaska

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