We’re back in again well after midnight and looking forward to some sleep. We just inhaled a pizza with blurry eyes, windblown faces, and tired legs. We had another great day but little to show for it as far as recordings go. It was a warm sunny day but the wind was just a bit [...]

We had a long productive day in the field today. It’s now about midnight and we’re both ready for a good sleep after a day of hiking on the tundra.We spent most of the morning northwest of Nome hiking a mountain ridge in search of Red Knot—a sparsely distributed and poorly known breeding bird in [...]

This morning we flew to the small town of Nome in western Alaska, known to many as the finish line for the Iditarod sled dog race. Here we hope to record several bird species with limited breeding distributions in Alaska, including Bristle-thighed Curlew, Pacific Golden-Plover, Red-throated Pipit, and Aleutian Tern. We picked up our rental [...]

Today, after many months of planning and several hectic days of packing gear and ironing out final logistical details, Mike Andersen and I departed Ithaca and traveled to Anchorage, Alaska. We both slept through most of our flights, waking just in time to see the last of the vast snaking glaciers below as we descended [...]