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Molting adult male
Spectacled Eider in "eclipse plumage" at Nome on 2 July 2011 |
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Adult Northern
Wheatear caring for juvenile below. 4 July 2011 |
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Fledgling Northern
Wheatear on the Teller Road near Nome on 4 July 2011. |
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Northern Wheatears, Black-bellied
Plovers, Pacific Golden-Plovers, Western Sandpipers, and Long-tailed Jaegers
were in the area of Teller and Wooley Lagoon Road. |
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Red Foxes were very pale. This one
on Teller Road attempted to catch a juvenile Arctic Tern but adult
Arctic Terns dive-bombed it and drove it away. 4 July 2011. |
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Muskoxen are one of the few large
mammals that escaped extinction during the last ice age. They spread
out over arctic Canada, northwest Greenland and the north coast of
Alaska. However, they were wiped out of Alaska during the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. To conserve the species, Muskoxen have
been reintroduced to Alaska from Canada. In Nome, we saw a herd of
about 25 Muskoxen. Photo: 4
July 2011. |
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