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Alaska based biologist and photographer.
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A juv Black-legged Kittiwake meets an iceberg near Ilulisst $Greenland #SuperSeabirdSunday 🪶🦑

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My favorite albatross, the Light-mantled Albatross. They look happy to see me too! Auckland Island, New Zealand 🪶🦑

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A snowshoe hare is caught by the Pine marten during its hunt. Keep your eyes focused on the middle of the screen.

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A snout-on view of a New Zealand Sea Lion snoozing away seemingly unaware that it is one of the rarest species of sea lion. North East Island 🦊🦑

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The Kelp Gull, the big gull throughout the Southern Ocean. Auckland Island, New Zealand 🪶🦑

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Meet the Auckland Island Shag, endemic to the Auckland Islands (south of New Zealand). Gotta love that purple eye ring.🪶🦑

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Nothing says #Lovebirds like wearing the same eyeliner like this pair of Black-browed Albatross Falkland Islands 🪶

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Black-backed Woodpeckers like foraging in recent burns but it sure makes it hard to keep those white belly feathers from getting smudged. #WoodpeckerWednesday Anchorage #Alaska 🪶

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Two #Tuesday Muskox exploring the tundra on Devon Island, #Nunavut 🦊🌿

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In an effort to boost awareness of the University of Alaska’s research success, a Fairbanks Republican has proposed that the state name an official state dinosaur. via @alaskabeacon.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fair...

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It's a mad scramble for Snares Penguins coming ashore and its even more challenging when they have to crawl up a bank of slippery kelp. Snares Islands, New Zealand 🪶🦑

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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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A Great Gray Owl conducting a vole survey. Anchorage #Alaska #SuperbOwlSunday #SuperbOwl 🪶

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The Alaska Volcano Observatory is pretty even-keeled, but a 50% chance of an eruption is pretty big. #Alaska #akleg

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A rock mattress and kelp blanket makes the perfect bed, that is if you are a New Zealand Fur Seal (a lifer mammal for me). Also called the Long-nosed Fur Seal. Enderby Island, New Zealand 🦊🦑

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“They’ll come in and just eat the head only, or just the tongue. Killer whales prefer the tongue.” 🌊 #AlaskaBlueSky #Alaska #AlaskaSky

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First time I have seen a leucistic Northern Pintail, Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, California #birds

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Meanwhile, in Alaska, ... @alaskawx.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Cape (Pintado) Petrel, a favorite among seabirders visiting the Southern Ocean as it is easy to identify and "friendly" visiting ships. Off New Zealand 🪶🦑

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January 2025 has the second highest global average sea surface temperature (SST) on record (2024). This despite the ongoing, and strengthening La Nina. Truly remarkable - in a scary way. 🔥

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

#TwosDay Sitka Deer: During winter when the snow is deep these deer forage on kelp along the tide-line. These were on LaTouche Island, Prince William Sound. #Alaska 🦊🦑

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Arctic Coastal Plain: For #WorldWetlandsDay one of the great wetlands of the world that is host to multitudes of birds, caribou and other wonderful forms of wildlife #NPRA, #Alaska 🌿

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Southern Royal Albatross, much larger than yesterday's species. Off Fjordland NP, New Zealand The vast majority of the albatrosses I photograph are flying so it is hard to pass up one taking a break on the water. 🪶🦑

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White-capped (Shy) Albatross at rest off Fjordland NP, New Zealand. This must of have the most numerous albatross I saw during the recent visit. 🪶🦑

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Sun gods - California condors catching some rays after rain and hail showers in Pinnacles National Park, CA a few days ago.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Weather precluded a visit to Campbell Island but I still saw some Campbell Albatross. Depending on which taxonomy one follows this may have been a new species of albatross for me. Some authorities consider it a subspecies of Black-browed Albatross. Off Westport New Zealand 🪶🦑

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100 years ago today, diphtheria antitoxin was moving through Interior Alaska on the way Nome by dog team rely. It was really cold, reportedly in the 60s below in places between Nenana and Kaltag. #Alaska #akwx www.nomenugget.com/news/one-hun...

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American Three-toed Woodpecker with an eye on the next tree which must have better grubs. Anchorage #Alaska #WoodpeckerWednesday 🪶

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Please check out the absolute fluff of these Whenua Hou diving petrels and a lovely story on their translocations www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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I could not find a common name for this big fancy moth so y'all will have to settle for Copaxa medea #MothMonday Wayqecha Cloud Forest Biological Station, Cusco Province, Peru 🌿

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