The new Southeast Alaska Birding Trail is a free virtual guide to 18 communities across the bird-rich region.

Thousands of people drive south from Anchorage, Alaska, to see mountains, eagles and glaciers on the Kenai Peninsula. Most blow by a vista where they could be seeing aerial acrobats. Just 10 miles … ...

Alaska Raptor Center (www.alaskaraptor.org, $12 adult admission) is a raptor rehabilitation, education and research center that works to return birds to the wild whenever possible.

Watching the terns is a perfect side trip for someone with a car and a day in Alaska's largest city. "A lot of local people photograph them down there," said Joe Meehan, lands and refuge program ...

Common birds to spot in Alaska include the American Robin, Chickadees, Fox Sparrow, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and a European starling. You might even be lucky enough to spot a Bald Eagle, which is ...

Many of the 20 Alaska cases in wild birds have been identified by members of the public who noticed something was wrong and called the Alaska Sick or Dead Bird Hotline, 866-527-3358, which is ...

The island rises from the mist in the sea between Alaska and Siberia as a bush plane from Anchorage glides to a landing. Passengers laden with binoculars ...

Around 96 million people across the U.S. – or 3 in 10 Americans – engage in bird watching, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.Roughly 95% of those birders do so from the comfort ...

If you visit Sitka and Juneau, Alaska, this month, it’s often easy to spot bald eagles, ravens and black and brown bears on your own. (I expected to have the same luck in June and got skunked ...