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Here’s where you’ll find in-depth articles, conversational blog posts, and the latest press releases on Alaska’s birds, wildlife, communities, and conservation efforts from Audubon Alaska staff and partners. 

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Wanted: Shorebird Chicks (Alive)
May 22, 2026 — Some chicks make it, many don’t. What are the hallmarks of a good breeding area? Shorebird parents and researchers both want to know.
ALASKA Bird Science
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There’s No Bog Like Home
May 15, 2026 — Shorebirds are back in Alaska for the breeding season. How much depends on Cook Inlet’s bogs?
ALASKA Bird Science
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Audubon Alaska Launches Anchorage Birding Trail
May 06, 2026 — The trail features 35 birding sites, stretching from Whittier to Westchester Lagoon and into the Chugach Mountains. The virtual experience offers maps, site amenities, and driving directions.
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Introducing the Anchorage Birding Trail
May 06, 2026 — Audubon Alaska’s newest birding trail connects 35 accessible sites, from Cook Inlet shorelines to Chugach alpine ridges to city parks throughout the Anchorage Bowl.
ALASKA Birding
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Hidden Gems Along the Anchorage Birding Trail
May 06, 2026 — The Anchorage Birding Trail hosts some of the richest displays of bird life the city has to offer, but these sites have far more to discover than just feathered friends.
ALASKA Trails
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Rebuilding a Tower That Seabirds—and Science—Depend On
May 01, 2026 — From storm damage to critical repairs, a research tower on Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska helps scientists track seabird signals in a warming North Pacific.
ALASKA Bird Science
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Birds in Poetry and Prose in Alaska and Beyond
April 22, 2026 — Poetry is powerful, but poetry about Alaska birds from Alaska poets and writers? Now you’re really flying.
ALASKA Arts & Culture
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Desperately Seeking Sugg’erpak
February 18, 2026 — The global story of how a century-old Yup’ik mask is illuminating shorebird conservation today in Western Alaska and beyond. Way beyond.
ALASKA Arts & Culture
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A Contested Road Through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness
January 08, 2026 — At the remote edge between the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, a proposed 19-mile road threatens migratory flyways, subsistence livelihoods, and the framework for nature conservation in Alaska.
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Copper River Delta Shorebird Festival and WHSRN Site Turns 35
October 24, 2025 — The celebration marked 35 years since the Copper River Delta was designated a Site of Hemispheric Importance in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN)—the first such site in Alaska and among the earliest in the network’s history.
ALASKA Festivals and Events