Usually rats eat the brains and eyeballs. The drop of blood on the neck is a sure sign of a rat attack. Rats typically attack birds on the back of the neck.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands; Marine birds
AMNWR; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Bering Sea Unit; Stewardship Camp; Biology; Birds; Birding; Research; Pribilofs; St. Matthew; Alaska
Students in Environmental Education Stewardship Camp asst AMNWR Biologist ARt Sowls with a Least Auklet to see if it has brood patches. St. Matthew Island, Pribilofs, 1984
Birds; Marine birds; Work of the Service; Oil spills; Wildlife refuges; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Aleutians; Unalaska
Oiled Crested Auklet North Skan Bay. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Response to Grounding/Oil Spill off Unalaska Background Information The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is responding to the grounding of the 738-foot cargo vessel M/V Selendang
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Marine birds; Coastal environments; Islands; Biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands; WHAU
Dazzled by lights, this whiskered Auklet chick landed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service MV Tiglax while traveling through the Aleutina Islands near Kasatochi. After photographing the chick, it was turned loose at sea.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Marine birds; Coastal environments; Islands; Biology; Work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands; WHAU
Dazzled by lights, this whiskered Auklet chick landed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service MV Tiglax while traveling through the Aleutina Islands near Kasatochi. After photographing the chick, it was turned loose at sea.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Marine birds; Coastal environments; Islands; Biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands;
Dazzled by lights, this whiskered Auklet chick landed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service MV Tiglax while traveling through the Aleutina Islands near Kasatochi. After photographing the chick, it was turned loose at sea.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Marine birds; Coastal environments; Islands; Biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands;
Dazzled by lights, this whiskered Auklet chick landed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service MV Tiglax while traveling through the Aleutina Islands near Kasatochi. After photographing the chick, it was turned loose at sea.
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Marine birds; Coastal environments; Islands; Biology; work of the refuge; Aleutians; Aleutian Islands
Dazzled by lights, this whiskered Auklet chick landed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service MV Tiglax while traveling through the Aleutina Islands near Kasatochi. After photographing the chick, it was turned loose at sea.