A New Teenager and her Unusual Bird

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jun 11, 2023   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Hazel Sutton was eating lunch on an island at Tanana Lakes Recreation Area in Fairbanks with her family recently when a bird caught her eye. At first, she figured it was a semipalmated sandpiper, an ocean bird that migrates to Interior Alaska each spring to create more sandpipers. Then she squinted and figured that the […]