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Birders

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts) Thu May 24, 2012, 08:32 PM May 2012

Question for the birders of DU.

Today I driving around the field today in the Arctic and saw what appeared to be two cranes or heron or something like them. I took a picture of them with my cell phone but they didn't come out very well.

Question:

Are these birds normally this far north? I have never seen them in up here in my nineteen years of working up here. Can anyone give me a clue. Thanks

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Question for the birders of DU. (Original Post) Arctic Dave May 2012 OP

It looks like sandhill cranes get pretty far up there XemaSab May 2012 #1

I'm actually in the northern most tan area Arctic Dave May 2012 #2

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)

1. It looks like sandhill cranes get pretty far up there

Reply to Arctic Dave (Original post)

Thu May 24, 2012, 11:04 PM

May 2012

But if it's particularly far north http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ might be interested in the sighting.

What else do you see up there?

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)

2. I'm actually in the northern most tan area

Reply to XemaSab (Reply #1)

Sat May 26, 2012, 12:44 AM

May 2012

in Alaska.

I've just about every migrating bird there is to see up here

Swans
Eiders (king, spectacled)
Geese (Canadian , snow, etc)
Ducks
Hawks
Snow owls
Ptarmigan
Fishers
Many more.

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