For many years scientists wanted to know where Spectacled Eiders spent their winters. They speculated but could never find them. Finally Margaret Peterson did; a satellite tag signal got her out to the Bering Sea. There they found not just one but……well watch the video.
project Arctic’s Amazing Birds
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Wildlife Biologist, USGS, Alaska Science Center
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Research Biologist for USGS, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska.
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USGS wildlife biologist, Alaska Science Center-Anchorage
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Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists Imagine yourself on a Colorado mountain slope. Bumblebees buzz happily around dwarf bluebell blossoms, and the spring sun is bright. Except not all is well. The flowers bloom a good seven hundred feet upslope of where they grew five years ago, forcing bees ever higher. Bright petal colors are faded: [...]
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Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists The Bering Sea region hosts over 90% of seabirds breeding in the continental United States. Most of those birds are hardy migrators, breeding on Alaska’s coast in the warm season and then departing south, chased away by the cold weather. One group which remains is Guillemots, a type of seabird [...]
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by Ned Rozell HALL ISLAND — On this windy, misty August day, there are perhaps one million birds clinging to the cliffs that buttress this Bering Sea island. These seabirds, crazy-eyed and with bodies both sleek and clumsy, need solid ground for just a few months to hold their eggs. When their summer mission is [...]
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