2012年5月11日 · The magpie sightings on the Alaska Bird Observatory’s website show a pattern that traces the road system and follows the path of rivers like the Yukon and Kuskokwim. Magpies are like their raven cousins in that they will eat almost anything. The birds tend to congregate around people and the food we throw away.

2012年6月28日 · Ken Tape feels that way, after a time-lapse camera he set up in northern Alaska captured a full-frame portrait of a wolf.

2013年3月21日 · 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.

2003年5月1日 · The virus has killed thousands of North American birds since 1999, most of them in the crow family. Ravens, the largest members of the crow family, will perhaps be the indicator species in Alaska if the virus establishes itself up here. Other birds killed by the disease include the gray jay, magpie, and many types of raptors.