Walrus cows and yearlings resting on ice. The Walrus lives near relatively shallow water where it spends much of its time looking for benthic bivalve mollusks, its preferred diet. The Walrus is a social animal and spends much of its time on 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; 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.
Nearly all threatened Spectacled eiders spend the winter in a small area of ocean and sea ice south of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. This picture shows tens of thousands of spectacled eiders roosting in an open lead of the ice pack,...
