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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>The Bears of Katmai National Park</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/07/26/katmai-national-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below are a few pictures of brown bears from Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, on the Alaska Peninsula. I had the great fortune of going to Brooks Camp on 23 July while leading a birding and natural history trip for Wilderness Birding Adventures, in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy.  At least 14 bears were fishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birding the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/07/04/birding-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from three weeks (June 13-July 2) in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge where I led two birding trips for Wilderness Birding Adventures.  Below is a brief photo tour through some of the many highlights. Fledgling Gray-headed Chickadee Poecile cincta, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 16 June 2010. The large white cheek patch, gray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bristle-thighed Curlew</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/06/10/bristle-thighed-curlew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from leading two birding tours in Nome for Wilderness Birding Adventures. The two days that I get to spend each spring looking for Bristle-thighed Curlews are two of the best of the entire year. Here are a few shots of North America&#8217;s most beautiful shorebird. Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis, north of Nome, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caspian Terns near Nome!</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/06/01/caspian-terns-near-nome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia, Safety Lagoon, near Nome, 1 June 2010. Caspian Terns have been expanding their range in recent decades and have now colonized several areas in southcoastal, southeast, and western Alaska.  There are a very few records for the Seward Peninsula, all of which come from Safety Sound/Lagoon near Nome and represent the [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/05/31/adak-island-may-13-20/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/04/28/seal-pup-and-thayers-gull/#comments</comments>
		<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>Milbert&#8217;s Tortoiseshell</title>
		<link>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/04/09/milberts-tortoiseshell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.birdingak.com/2010/04/09/milberts-tortoiseshell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milbert&#8217;s Toroiseshell, Aglais milberti, Homer, 9 April 2010. Despite the piles of snow still in the yard, the first butterfly of the spring came out today.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Gulls]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Gulls]]></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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