Unlocking the Mysterious Winter Lives of Alaska’s Storm-Petrels with Brie Drummond - Homer
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Brie Drummond will be presenting in person at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center with a reception to follow the talk. You can also zoom from home. Details and Zoom link can be found here: https://alaskarefugefriends.org/storm-petrels-26/
During the short dark nights of southern Alaskan summers, diminutive, secretive seabirds, the storm-petrels, return to their nesting colonies on remote storm-tossed islands of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. It is one of Alaska’s refuges’ most amazing wildlife spectacles as the night sky fills with fluttering wings and cries of the hundreds of thousands of parent birds returning to feed chicks hidden in underground burrows. Brie Drummond will introduce us to this world and the lives of storm-petrels and share with us what was learned about these birds in a first-in-Alaska research into their winter lives.
In this talk, Brie will share some background information on storm-petrels and the remote islands where this project occurred, stories from the fieldwork involved in this project, and some exciting results. Learn whether fork-tailed and Leach’s storm-petrels differ in their winter movements, and whether birds from different breeding colonies went different places. This is the first data on where storm-petrels breeding in Alaska spend the winter and provide important conservation implications.
Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges has supported this project financially. Two years ago we helped fund the geolocator tags and part of chart boat expenses to get the biologists to the islands. This past year we made funds available but the refuge came up with enough money to complete it.
During the short dark nights of southern Alaskan summers, diminutive, secretive seabirds, the storm-petrels, return to their nesting colonies on remote storm-tossed islands of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. It is one of Alaska’s refuges’ most amazing wildlife spectacles as the night sky fills with fluttering wings and cries of the hundreds of thousands of parent birds returning to feed chicks hidden in underground burrows. Brie Drummond will introduce us to this world and the lives of storm-petrels and share with us what was learned about these birds in a first-in-Alaska research into their winter lives.
In this talk, Brie will share some background information on storm-petrels and the remote islands where this project occurred, stories from the fieldwork involved in this project, and some exciting results. Learn whether fork-tailed and Leach’s storm-petrels differ in their winter movements, and whether birds from different breeding colonies went different places. This is the first data on where storm-petrels breeding in Alaska spend the winter and provide important conservation implications.
Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges has supported this project financially. Two years ago we helped fund the geolocator tags and part of chart boat expenses to get the biologists to the islands. This past year we made funds available but the refuge came up with enough money to complete it.
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Where is it happening?
95 Sterling Highway, Homer, AK, United States, Alaska 99603
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Host or PublisherFriends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges
