Location Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
For this bird and the next two, I will be posting the actual pictures of the bird I saw rather than a model picture from the internet.
The bird on the left is the kittiwake, on the right a glaucous-winged. There were many of both species flying around the ship as we slowly sailed into the bay to look at the glaciers. We were also buzzed by Bald Eagles only a few dozen feet from our balcony, like this picture shows:
The kittiwake is also an arctic bird, like the Arctic Tern, and we were also at the extreme southern end of its range.
Cornell: Black-legged Kittiwake
For this bird and the next two, I will be posting the actual pictures of the bird I saw rather than a model picture from the internet.
The bird on the left is the kittiwake, on the right a glaucous-winged. There were many of both species flying around the ship as we slowly sailed into the bay to look at the glaciers. We were also buzzed by Bald Eagles only a few dozen feet from our balcony, like this picture shows:
The kittiwake is also an arctic bird, like the Arctic Tern, and we were also at the extreme southern end of its range.
Cornell: Black-legged Kittiwake
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