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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&#8217;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>
				<category><![CDATA[Gulls]]></category>
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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>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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		<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>
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		<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>Pallas&#8217;s AND Yellow-breasted Bunting!</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/09/03/pallass-and-yellow-breasted-buntings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/09/03/pallass-and-yellow-breasted-buntings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note from Gambell to post these photos of two great birds, present together!  They were here only yesterday in the far boneyard at Gambell!  When I get more time on-line (too much time birding to post much) I&#8217;ll post photos of Brambling, Common Rosefinch, and hopefully much more to come. Yellow-breasted Bunting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short-tailed Shearwaters</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/04/30/short-tailed-shearwaters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Identification Topics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ship moved into Bristol Bay a few days ago where the highlight has been an early Sabine&#8217;s Gull on 28 April.  The bird numbers dropped dramatically after we left the deep waters west of Bering Canyon and entered the shallower waters of Bristol Bay.  However, the last two days transiting deep water (26-27 April) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASSIN&#8217;S FINCH!</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/02/21/cassins-finch-in-seward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2009/02/21/cassins-finch-in-seward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Identification Topics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BREAKING NEWS&#8230;Just when I was thinking that no good bird is ever discovered in Alaska in February, Seward birders proved me wrong.  Carol Griswold&#8217;s feeder in Seward is currently hosting Alaska&#8217;s 5th record of Cassin&#8217;s Finch.  Carol found the bird yesterday and was able to get some great photos which aided with this difficult ID.  [...]]]></description>
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