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Bird Sighting Reports and Other News

What's Up? is Compiled Weekly by Peg Tileston
On behalf of the Alaska Women’s Environmental Network (AWEN), Alaska Center for the Environment (ACE), and Alaska Conservation Alliance (ACA) To RECEIVE What's Up, or to ADD meetings, events, publications, deadlines, websites, or CHANGE EMAIL ADDRESS OR UNSUBSCRIBE, contact Peg Tileston at 907-561-0540, FAX 907-563-2747 or pegt@gci.net. download.

This is from the Mat-Su Birders: A listing of 2010 spring birding events in south-central Alaska.

 

Forty-ninth Supplement to the American Ornithologits’
Union Check-list of North American Birds

List Of The 2,048 Bird Species (With Scientific and English Names) Known From The A.O.U. Check-list Area.

RBA Fairbanks 12/16/2010

Upper Cook Inlet Report

Checklist of Alaska Birds, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Mat-Su Birders Website has: Birding Hot Spots, Birds of South/Central Mat-Su Valley, Birds of Jim - Swan Lakes, Palmer Hay Flats Refuge Bird List

Anchorage Audubon Society Website has local bird checklists

ebird, a source for birding list

Proposed Eagle Permit information.

Final report summarizing an interesting study on long-distance migratory movements and habitat selection of Snowy Owls in Nunavut, Canada. Some of the results of this study recently made the news, particularly the finding that many Snowy Owls spent much of their winters on sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. See the link for more information.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210143416.htm