Kenai National Wildlife Refuge staff say the bird is leucistic, lacking pigment in some feathers due to an absence of cells that produce melanin.
Over the last several weeks the algae bloom has ranged from significant covering the surface of the lake in many places to today seeing patches of the bloom here and there on the surface. It can also be observed below the surface near the shoreline.
October flew by leaving us with a couple of light snowfalls. November came around with something slightly more impressive, but it wasn't the same. Mid December decided to make up for all of the snowfalls that we missed all at once, it seems like.
I was watching a flock of redpolls at my feeder when I noticed one unusual member with a huge white body. See photo.
Costco customers in Anchorage have recently started sharing online reports of ravens stealing groceries from their carts and the back of their pickup trucks, and biologists say the behavior could spread around town quickly.
"While teleworking, I looked out the window to see a red breast light in a tree in the front yard in Anchorage, Alaska in January. It was an American robin."
Invasive pigeons have made their way out of Alaska's large cities to fish camps on the west side of Cook Inlet.
Between the Seward Highway and Hillside neighborhoods, a pair of swans are raising five just-hatched cygnets. This is the first pair of swans to nest at Potter Marsh in the memory of Anchorage Coastal Refuge managers and local birders.
Non-native chukar, used to train bird hunting dogs, spotted in Anchorage.
Robins are migratory birds, but may stay in one place if the temperature is warm and/or there is food available.
Mergansers (Mergus merganser) are not common visitors to Cheney Lake, but a flock of about a dozen showed up in early November.
Steller's jay has one tick on each foot. The ticks may be a species that is commonly found on birds or a species that was picked up from a mammal as the bird was scavenging.
It’s the first reported sighting of the falcated duck on mainland Alaska, Fish and Game says.
I rarely see trumpeter swans on the lake, and I don't ever remember seeing them so early.
Spring has come about a month early. Is the mating season for our state bird, the Willow Ptarmigan, early as well?
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) are usually a common visitor to my bird feeder, however this is the first time one has been spotted at the feeder during the 2018-2019 winter.
A flock of European Starlings sighted at a mid-town Anchorage building.
Unidentified Jay sighted in southcentral Alaska, early December.
Sandhill cranes spotted flying east
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