Participants of a Bird Walk gather at Beluga Slough in Homer, Alaska during the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival which is held each May on the weekend closest to the 9th of May. The festival is sponsored by Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge...
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; AMNWR; Birds; Coastal environments; Islands; Biology; work of the refuge; Raptors; Islands and Ocean Visitor Center
In the summer of 2006, a pair of bald eagles nested on the south side of Beluga Slough near the Islands and Ocean Visitor Center in Homer, Alaska. Thousands of visitors were able to watch the nest building and rearing of the young until fledging...