- Magpies a more common sight throughout Alaska
The lack of a term for the black-billed magpie may be because the bird was not in Southwest Alaska until recently The long-tailed relative of ravens and jays seems to be extending its range throughout Alaska
- Mug shot of a wolf, magpie names, goodbye Rat Island
Qalerayak 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
- West Nile Virus and Alaska | Geophysical Institute
Other birds killed by the disease include the gray jay, magpie, and many types of raptors “Birds that show symptoms have tremors, can’t fly, and don’t hold their wings normally,” Beckmen said
- 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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