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		<title>Eurasian (Green-winged) Teal in Homer</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2011/04/28/eurasian-green-winged-teal-in-homer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Eurasian Teal Anas crecca crecca, Mud Bay, Homer, 28 April 2011. A drake Eurasian Teal (aka Eurasian Green-winged Teal, aka Common Teal, aka Aleutian Green-winged Teal) Anas crecca crecca was in Mud Bay, Homer today with a flock of about 150 (American) Green-winged Teal A. c. carolinensis. The drake is identified by the lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Subspecies in Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This winter&#8217;s Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches flock on the Homer Spit has numbered about 40-50 since they first arrived in November. If you look carefully through the flock you might pick out one bird that is a bit different from the rest. The race of Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch that regularly winters on the Homer Spit is the Kenai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flava Horned Lark in Homer</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/12/20/flava-horned-lark-in-homer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The highlight of the Homer Christmas Bird Count (18 December 2010) was a yellow-faced Horned Lark of the Asian breeding race flava found by Lisa Matlock, Kathy Eagle, Dave Rosseneau and Vernon Byrd. It was with a group of three Alaskan breeding arcticola Horned Larks. I believe this is the first mid-winter record of Horned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wintering Rock Sandpipers in Homer</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/12/02/wintering-rock-sandpipers-in-homer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis, probably tschuktschorum, Homer Boat Harbor, 13 November 2009. Click to enlarge. The winter flock of Rock Sandpipers in Homer (usually 2,500-5,000 birds) is predominately made up of the darker plumaged race tschuktschorum, but may also be contain a few of the Aleutian race couesi (Dan Ruthrauff, USGS, pers. comm.) Banding studies [...]]]></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>BLYTH&#8217;S REED WARBLER</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/09/09/warbler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update, 22 November 2010: Further study of this bird and images and consultation with experts have shown that the identity of this bird is most probably a Blyth&#8217;s Reed Warbler Acrocephalus dumetorum, which would be a first for North America. A manuscript detailing the sighting and identification of this bird has been submitted to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flava Horned Lark</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/08/31/flava-horned-lark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris flava, Eastern Bering Sea, 31 August 2010. Click on photos to enlarge. Another hitchhiker this morning. The yellow throat and supercillia identify this Horned Lark as the flava subspecies, breeding in eastern Russia. It winters in southern Russia, northeast China and Japan and is a casual fall migrant to the islands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in Alaska</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/07/30/yellow-bellied-flycatcher-in-alaska/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the frenetic spring and summer breeding season is over and my schedule has eased up I have some time to post photos of this summer&#8217;s adventures. One of the highlights of my summer was a short trip that Bob Dittrick and I took to a nondescript ridge called Deadhorse Pass on the Eureka [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adak Island, May 13-20</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/05/31/adak-island-may-13-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 19:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From May 13-20 I was on Adak Island in the central Aleutians leading a birding trip for Wilderness Birding Adventures. The Asian rarity highlights from the trip were a female Smew and a Hawfinch. Least Sandpiper and Northern Wheatear were very good finds from an island perspective. Rarities aside, Adak has an interesting list of [...]]]></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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