Alaska: Barrow Extension: Jun 27—29, 2008
(to Grand Alaska or Alaska Mainland)
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Price: $1,850
Departs: Anchorage
Tour Limit: 9
Operations Manager: Erik Lindqvist
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Tour Leaders
Kevin Zimmer
Kevin Zimmer has authored three books and numerous papers dealing with field identification and bird-finding in North America. ...More Information
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Tour Reports:
- Jul 06, 07: Barrow Extension to Grand Alaska
- Jul 03, 06: Barrow Extension to Grand Alaska
- Jul 01, 05: Barrow, Alaska
Past Birdlists:
- Jun 18, 07: Alaska: Barrow Extension: PDF (144.6 KB)
- Jun 24, 06: Alaska: Barrow Extension: PDF (14.3 KB)
- Jun 17, 06: Alaska: Barrow Extension: PDF (14.3 KB)
- Jun 25, 05: Alaska: Barrow Extension: PDF (17.1 KB)
Connecting Trips:
- Jun 12, 08: Grand Alaska
- Jun 16, 08: Alaska Mainland
- Jun 05, 08: Grand Alaska: Gambell/Nome Pre-trip
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Spectacled Eider — Photo: Kevin Zimmer |
This short tour, which can be taken by itself or as an optional extension to Grand Alaska or Alaska Mainland, will visit Barrow, the northernmost town on the North American continent.
In a setting of 24-hour sunlight, the bird life is unmistakably High Arctic. Three species of eiders nest here (the magnificent King, the beautiful Steller's, and the bizarre Spectacled) with the males resplendent in their breeding dress.
Displaying sandpipers are everywhere—Baird's turning circles with one wing stretched to the sky, Pectorals with their ruffs distended as they perform their strange hooting flights, dressy Dunlins singing shrill "songs" from atop moss-covered hummocks, and every pond alive with gorgeous Red Phalaropes. Yellow-billed Loon, Red-necked Stint, and Sabine's Gull are regular migrants that are seen in some years by our groups. If the lemming population is not in a crash year, we should be treated to the sight of Snowy Owls and Pomarine Jaegers cruising over the tundra. Even polar bear (seen by several of our past tours) is a possibility here!