Thu May 24, 2012, 08:32 PM

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

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Thu May 24, 2012, 11:04 PM

XemaSab (57,430 posts)

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

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?

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Response to XemaSab (Reply #1)

Sat May 26, 2012, 12:44 AM

Arctic Dave (12,557 posts)

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

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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