Andy and I took his boat around Admiralty Is. on a fishing trip. On the leg bewtween Kake and Baranof Warm Springs (Frederick Sound), we saw a brown bird...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Aug 2, 2010 7:26 pm
 For those that follow such matters, the taxonomists have rearranged the birds again. Official AOU supplement attached. A few things of note locally: our ...
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Beth Peluso
bpeluso
Aug 3, 2010 9:52 pm
I was following up on Gwen's post about bird name changes on the American Ornithologists' Union checklist, and I found this correction on the website: Â ...
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Mark Schwan
markamb2001
Aug 4, 2010 2:48 pm
The birding has been really slow lately, but there are some organisms that are visibly all around us, however, they often go overlooked. I'm speaking of...
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Matt Goff
gwark_ak
Aug 4, 2010 5:24 pm
I photographed a family of Pied-billed Grebes on Swan Lake this morning in Sitka. Pictures and a little more information can be seen here: ...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Aug 5, 2010 11:25 pm
I heard distinctive twitter-chitters and saw at least 8 swifts circling above Bartlett Hospital this afternoon. Perfect conditions out there for random ...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Aug 11, 2010 5:24 pm
Saturday near Crystal lake I had a great view of an exceptionally big and loud juvenile goshawk. This posting is a little late, but she looked young...
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Beth Peluso
bpeluso
Aug 11, 2010 6:03 pm
I saw a bald eagle pursued by 2 ravens zip over the road by Merril Field this morning. It's the first time in the 6 months I've been in Anchorage I've seen a ...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Aug 11, 2010 10:11 pm
I recall there's been some reports near the University this summer, so for some this might be old news, but today at 1 PM I saw two doves cross Back Loop Rd ...
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Laurie Craig
annielauriec...
Aug 18, 2010 8:33 pm
Okay, you birding sleuths, Saw a pair of unusual birds at 10:30 this morning on the Auke Lake Trail (Glacier Highway end between the two floating bridges) that...
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spruceak
bbpaige
Aug 19, 2010 9:13 pm
At high tide this morning, a surge in the number of shorebirds was obvious. There were approx. 240 pectoral sandpipers, 400 least sandpipers, 15 western...
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Paul Suchanek
paulms99824
Aug 19, 2010 9:27 pm
Long distance hummer movement: http://ebird.org/content/ak/news/rufous-hummingbird-takes-the-snowbird-route-1 For what it's worth, I walked the Auke Lake trail...
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Linda Shaw
linda.shaw@...
Aug 19, 2010 9:58 pm
Wow! Hey, we should start banding our hummers and see where they are going for the winter - or is anyone already doing this in Juneau? Thanks for sharing this...
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Steve Zimmerman
callorhinus
Aug 20, 2010 5:43 am
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Becky Carls
carlsfam@...
Aug 20, 2010 5:55 am
That eagle is just trying to figure out what the heck you keep looking at through your scope! It does not appear to be very impressed..... ;)  That eagle...
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Steve Zimmerman
callorhinus
Aug 25, 2010 3:49 am
On page 13 of the latest Winging It (the official newsletter of the American Birding Association) I found the following statement: "On a recent trip to Texas,...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Aug 25, 2010 7:23 pm
There has been some RUHU banded in SE AK. Researcher Bill Calder came up several summers and banded them in various locations. He also banded in Colorado...
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Linda Shaw
linda.shaw@...
Aug 25, 2010 7:30 pm
Thank you for reporting this interesting information Gwen! Linda ... -- Linda Shaw Habitat Biologist Habitat Conservation Division National Marine Fisheries...
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Paul Suchanek
paulms99824
Aug 25, 2010 10:52 pm
If anyone has a hankering to see a bunch of surfbirds, there was a huge (2500?) flock out near Outer Point this morning at low tide. Some of the flock was on...
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spruceak
bbpaige
Aug 26, 2010 9:09 pm
On the Airport Beach uplands this morning, an upland sandpiper flushed from a dry meadow, called while doing a half-circle, then flew westward. This is the...
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Paul Suchanek
paulms99824
Aug 26, 2010 9:37 pm
The adult lesser black-backed gull which has called Juneau home for years has been easy to see of late. It was lounging around all morning just off the end of...
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Toi
tazman0895
Aug 27, 2010 3:41 am
I stopped by Little Island just north of Lincoln Island to watch the sea lions out there and I found a brant feeding in the kelp bed. I was able to get fairly...
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spruceak
bbpaige
Aug 28, 2010 11:22 pm
I've found several healthy looking thrushes in the past couple of weeks, lying dead. They are eating berries this time of year. Does anyone know of local...
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juneauart@...
juneauart
Aug 29, 2010 5:59 pm
Were the birds near a house or window? Varied Thrushes often crash into windows because the sky reflects in them. They can appear to have no injury, but die...
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Gwen Baluss
gwenbaluss
Aug 29, 2010 6:57 pm
I agree that's the most likely cause anytime you are around civilization. I have never heard of birds poisoning themselves on berries, even exotic ones. ...
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deborah_rudis@...
ddrudis
Aug 30, 2010 5:50 pm
Are the carcasses easliy retrievable & fairly fresh? If so we could send them to our Nat'l Wildlife Health Lab in Madison, WI for necropsy. -d ...
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deborah_rudis@...
ddrudis
Aug 30, 2010 6:15 pm
This is a wonderful educational website - -dr ... Journey South <ehoward@journeyn orth.org> To Sent by:...
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Mark Schwan
markamb2001
Sep 2, 2010 7:04 pm
This Saturday, September 4, at 10am, Juneau Audubon is having it's last Saturday Wild event for the summer. Mary Lou King, our wild berry aficionado...
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spruceak
bbpaige
Sep 5, 2010 11:24 pm
In the steady rain and SE wind this morning foraging along high tide drift along the beach near the Gustavus Dock, there was a juvenile sharp-tailed sandpiper...
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deborah_rudis@...
ddrudis
Sep 8, 2010 1:39 am
There was a note earlier about some dead varied thrushes found near berry bushes. If you do find a number of dead birds under any circumstances, please notify...
