A thriving bird population is crucial to Aleutian plant life, Croll said. Birds play an important role in dispersing seeds, and their presence -- specifically, their feces -- makes the very soil ...

Aleutian birds are not facing the acute situation farther south, where birds like albatrosses are dying after eating big chunks of plastic from the Pacific Ocean garbage patch and other trash.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For more than 200 years, hungry foxes in the Aleutian Islands preyed upon the Aleutian Canada goose, driving the birds to near-extinction. There were so few that scientists ...

Aleutian bird die-off remains mystery. FALSE PASS, Alaska, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A veterinarian says that more than 250 birds that died in July in the Aleutian Islands were not killed by West Nile or ...

The Aleutian Islands are in the middle of nowhere. No tourists, no cruise ships, no chartered fishing trips, no quaint country inns. On a quiet day, when the turbulent seas and storied winds are still ...

A mating pair of Aleutian Canada geese begin their journey today from the Baltimore Zoo to Russia, as part of an international effort to re-establish the rare and threatened birds in the Pacific ...

The rare Aleutian Geese known as Semidi birds winter off the Oregon Coast near Pacific City. Only 126 birds make up the Semidi birds a sub-species of Aleutian Geese.

J. A. A., Clark on New Birds from Eastern Asia and the Aleutian Islands, The Auk, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct., 1907), p. 453 ...