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		<title>Barrow with Wilderness Birding Adventures</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/10/16/barrow-with-wilderness-birding-adventures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; From October 6-8th I was in Barrow leading a trip for Wilderness Birding Adventures. While bird diversity in Barrow at this time of year is low, we were interested in quality, not quantity, and hoped to be there to witness the Ross&#8217;s Gull migration. Going to Barrow in early October is without a doubt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Kittiwakes</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/10/04/comparing-kittiwakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red-legged (in focus) and Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris and tridactyla, Bering Sea, 3 October 2010. Three Red-legged and one Black-legged Kittiwake (second from the bottom), Bering Sea, 3 October 2010. Mixed flock of Kittiwakes, Bering Sea, 3 October 2010. Red-legged Kittiwake, Bering Sea about 60 miles northeast of St. Paul Island, 3 October 2010. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black-tailed Gull in Unalaska</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/09/23/black-tailed-gull-in-unalaska/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gulls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris, Unalaska, Eastern Aleutian Islands, 22 September 2010. Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris, Unalaska, Eastern Aleutian Islands, 20 September 2010. This Black-tailed Gull was first found on 4 September by Eugene Hunn, Mike Smith and Chris Feeney on the rocky shoreline across the road from the Dutch Harbor Post Office.  This is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seal Pup and Thayer’s Gull</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/04/28/seal-pup-and-thayers-gull/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the Bering Sea on the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.  We left Kodiak on April 23rd and we&#8217;ll finish this cruise in Dutch Harbor on May 3rd. The mission of the cruise is to service oceanographic moorings in the eastern Bering Sea. Young Spotted Seal Phoca largha, Bering Sea, 28 April 2010. Thayer&#8217;s Gull [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Frozen Bering Sea</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/04/09/the-frozen-bering-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 6th I left Kodiak on the USCG icebreaker, Polar Sea.  We transited west to Unimak Pass and north to St. Lawrence Island as part of the Bering Sea BEST project, a partnership between the North Pacific Research Board and the National Science Foundation.  We rolled back into Kodiak on April 7th after 33 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thayer&#8217;s Gull</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/02/27/thayers-gull/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First cycle Thayer&#8217;s Gull Larus thayeri, Homer Spit, 25 February 2010. Thayer&#8217;s Gull is a good find in Homer in the winter.  This first cycle bird was in a flock of 4,000 gulls at the offal discharge site on the end of the Homer Spit.  It was first reported by Martin Renner on 21 February.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Red-legged Kittiwakes</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/10/17/identifying-red-legged-kittiwakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often when a species has an obvious and diagnostic field mark the tendency is to quickly identify the bird, ignore its other marks, and move on.  Identifying a Red-legged Kittiwake is easy if you see the field mark for which the bird is named, and if you travel to the Pribilof Islands during the breeding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Migration at Gambell</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/09/16/fall-migration-at-gambell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/09/16/fall-migration-at-gambell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from 12 days of birding in the village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island with Wilderness Birding Adventures. Our fall tour was conducted from September 1st through the 7th, after which a few of us stayed on longer to see what else the island might produce.  As it turned out the bulk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kamchatka Gull</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/07/29/kamchatka-gull/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was daydreaming of gulls with yellow legs&#8230;Black-tailed, Lesser Black-backed&#8230;and then this guy appeared. Kamchatka (Mew) Gull Larus canus kamtschatschensis, western Bering Sea, 29 July 2009. This Kamchatka Gull was the prize of the day.  It quietly appeared on the ship late in the day and stayed with us for about an hour.  It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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