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| 6/2/2017 thru 6/20/17 We traveled around Alaska! After a brief stop in Anchorage, we flew to Adak Island in the Aleutian chain where we met up with John of Zungunruhe Birding Tours and had a great pelagic trip (3 albatross species!). Thanks, John and the crew of the Puk uk! Then it was on to Barrow (phalaropes and eiders!), Nome (Bristle-thighed Curlew and Golden Eagle nest!), and finally out to the nesting cliffs of St Paul Island (Red-legged Kittiwake and puffins AND where we ran into a herd of 200 reindeer). Click on NEXT PAGE below to go back in time. More pics coming soon. |
| 6/12/2017: Barrow, AK: Our last day in Barrow: Red Phalarope , Long-tailed Duck , Arctic Tern , Wilson's Snipe , Red-throated Loon , Snow Bunting , Hoary Redpoll , and Glaucous Gull . An interesting fact we learned about the Red Phalarope and the Red-necked Phalarope (click on NEXT PAGE below) is that they are rare sex role reversal cases. The females are the larger sex with brighter plumage and fight over the duller-looking male which then incubates the egg and raises the young. |
| 6/12/2017: Barrow, AK: Last day in Barrow: Sabine's Gull study and Parasitic Jaeger study , (Intermediate and Light) - we loved seeing the birds in breeding plumage. Also, a distant Pacific Loon. |
| 6/2 thru 620/2017: Scenes from our AK trip (shot with pocket camera): |