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- Magpies a more common sight throughout Alaska
The magpie sightings on the Alaska Bird Observatory’s website show a pattern that traces the road system and follows the path of rivers like the Yukon and Kuskokwim Magpies are like their raven cousins in that they will eat almost anything The birds tend to congregate around people and the food we throw away
- Mug shot of a wolf, magpie names, goodbye Rat Island
Q alerayak is the word for black-billed magpie throughout the entire area in which people speak Yup’ik * * * Rat Island is no more After more than 200 years with that name, the small island in the western Aleutians is now called Hawadax, pronounced “How-ah-thaa ”
- Life endures in hidden, cold worlds | Geophysical Institute
While Taras waded through a winter’s worth of snow to point out the scratchy wing marks of a magpie or similar-size bird, another instructor worked in a white crater 30 feet away, levering bark off a dead birch tree with a screwdriver Todd Sformo of Barrow traveled the farthest south to reach Chena Hot Springs
- Alaskas Size in Perspective | Geophysical Institute
Alaska has lots of land To put things in perspective, the accompanying graph compares Alaska's area with areas of the U S remote states
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