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Projects

The following is a short list of some of the on-going and completed projects at the Alaska Science Center - Biological Science Office that have used leg bands, neck collars, or radio transmitters. Projects are grouped by the primary objective of the study.

Mark-recapture analysis of annual survival

Steller’s eider
Black brant
Emperor goose
Spectacled eider population modeling
Harlequin duck

Territoriality and behavioral ecology

Black-legged Kittiwakes
Buff-breasted sandpiper
Bristle-thighed curlew
Townsend’s warbler
Seabirds (Puffins, murres, kittiwakes, etc.)

Migration

Murres and Puffins
Common merganser
Spectacled eider
Common eider
Shorebirds
Loons