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Site of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields House
  • Type: Place

Though no longer standing, 148 Charles Street served as the home of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Fields.

Elliott Coues House
  • Type: Place

The Elliott Coues House was the Washington D.C. residence of the prominent American ornithologist Elliott C. Coues from 1887 to his death in 1899. While residing at the home, Elliott Coues studied bird species from across the nation and wrote some of the most important texts in North American ornithology.

Indiana Dunes National Park

A Glimpse into Historic Crow Life at Indiana Dunes
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Travel back in time to Indiana Dunes in 1916. Learn about American crows in the region through passages and etchings by Earl Howell Reed, an early artist of the Dunes.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Emma Pitcher
  • Type: Person

Emma Bickham Pitcher was a skilled educator who excelled at bridging the information gap between the national park’s science division and an eager public. She was a highly respected amateur naturalist who carefully studied the subtle intricacies of local habitats and enthusiastically relayed them through informative lectures, guided walks, and wonderfully engaging nature-writing.

Determining the diets of black oystercatchers using stable isotope analysis
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Read a summary and link to the full paper on black oystercatcher foraging, in: Carney, B., D. Tessler, H. Coletti, J. M. Welker, and D. Causey. 2023. Stable isotope-determined diets of Black Oystercatchers Haematopus bachmani in the Northern Gulf of Alaska. Marine Ornithology 51: 123-135.

Birds of the Arctic
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Simon Paneak, a Nunamiut hunter, spent most of his adult life living in Anaktuvuk Pass in the Brooks Range. Simon was a fountain of traditional ecological knowledge, as were other adults within his community. However, Simon spoke, read, and wrote English, which facilitated his long collegial relationships with a variety of researchers interested in Arctic cultural and biological ecosystems.

Healing Wings
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Are you ready to enter a new world? A world of travel, adventure, and danger? A world existing all around us? Welcome to the world of birds. By learning more about birds, observing them, and contributing in a project to protect them, you may discover a new sense of wonder and joy.

Charley Harper
  • Type: Person

Artist Charley Harper is known for bright, colorful, geometric illustrations of nature. In the 1970s and 1980s, he created 10 illustrations for a series of national parks posters. These iconic posters had a lasting influence on the graphic identity of the National Park Service.

Cape Krusenstern National Monument

What we learned from 57 years of Dunlin banding
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Read the abstract and get the link to a paper on shorebird conservation, specifically Dunlin migration based on 57 years of data. Lagassé, et al. 2020. Dunlin subspecies exhibit regional segregation and high site fidelity along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. The Condor: Ornithological Applications 122: 1-15.

Cape Krusenstern National Monument

Studying Arctic Shorebirds takes Collective Effort
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Read the abstract and get the link to an article published in the Condor on Arctic shorebird population trends: Weiser, E. L., R. B. Lanctot, S. C. Brown, H. R. Gates, ... D. Payer, et al. 2020. Annual adult survival drives trends in Arctic-breeding shorebirds, but knowledge gaps in other vital rates remain. The Condor: Ornithological Applications 122: 1-14. DOI: 10.1093/condor/duaa026

Acadia National Park

Portraits of Acadia: Patrick Kark
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Patrick Kark, ornithology ranger

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

Thomas Nuttall
  • Type: Person

Naturalist Thomas Nuttall arrived at Fort Vancouver in 1834 and 1835, where he identified several new plants and Northwest birds.

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

John Kirk Townsend
  • Type: Person

Ornithologist John Kirk Townsend visited Fort Vancouver in the 1830s and used the Hudson's Bay Company post as a base for his explorations in the Northwest.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Resuming Gull Egg Harvests
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Read the abstract and get the link for a recently published article in Marine Ornithology: Lewis, T. M., C. Behnke, and M. B. Moss. 2017. Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) monitoring in preparation for resuming native egg harrvest in a national park. Marine Ornithology 45:165-174.

Series: Alaska Park Science - Volume 14 Issue 2: Birds of Alaska's National Parks
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This issue includes articles exploring birds throughout national parks in Alaska. Particular emphasis is on the changing ways to study birds, and the increasing importance not just on the summer homes of birds in Alaska, but the routes between their wintering and summer breeding grounds.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Nesting Kittlitz's Murrelets
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Read an abstract and get the link to an article published in Marine Ornithology: Kissling, M., S. B. Lewis, P. M. Lukacs, J. Waite, and S. M. Gende. 2016. Breeding decisions of the Kittlitz’s murrelets, Brachyamphus brevirostris, Icy Bay, Alaska. Marine Ornithology 44: 171-182.

Feathered Ambassadors of Arctic Coastal Parks
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Coastal areas in the Bering and Chukchi Seas are increasingly vulnerable to heightened industrial activity and a rapidly changing climate. Little is known regarding abundance, species composition, or distribution of shorebirds during fall migration in this region. Without such information, it will be impossible to prioritize effective oil spill response to the most critical areas if such a disaster does occur or to manage restoration activities after an incident.

Cape Krusenstern National Monument

The Birds of Bob Uhl's Journals
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Bob Uhl and his wife Carrie lived in remote sites in Cape Krusenstern National Monument for more than 50 years. From 1990 to 2004 Bob kept journals of daily observations. Birds appear in almost every day’s entry. As a subsistence user, Bob related to the birds as a source of food. As a fellow dweller of the natural world, he also saw them as friends. Above all, however, Bob was a naturalist who knew changes in certain populations affected other parts of the ecosystem.

Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

Glaucous-winged Gull Monitoring and Egg Harvest in Glacier Bay, Alaska
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In July 2014, President Obama signed the Huna Tlingit Traditional Gull Egg Use Act (P.L. 113-142) into law mark- ing an important step in a long journey to authorize the harvest of glaucous-winged gull eggs by the Huna Tlingit in their traditional homeland of Glacier Bay National Park (Figure 1). The science behind the law - both ethnographic and biological - stretches long into the past and will presumably continue long into the future (Figure 2).