A Birder's Guide to Alaska (ABA Birdfinding Guide)

A Birder's Guide to Alaska gives you the detailed information you need to find the Great Lands great birds. Over 60 locations are covered, including the state's entire road system, the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek, British Columbia through the Yukon to Alaska, the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system, and the Alaska Marine Highway from British Columbia to Alaska. Special attention is given to providing birding information for the larger communities of Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau, in addition to Alaska's popular tourist destinations: Denali National Park, the Inside Passage, the Kenai Peninsula, and Nome. Year-round birding information is included for most locations. Each chapter includes a section on local logistics and more comprehensive trip-planning information is included in the introduction.

George C. West's interest in birds was sparked by a 4th grade teacher and has continued for a life-time. Drawing and painting birds for over 60 years, he has illustrated many newsletters, magazines, and books, and contributed illustrations to many non-profit ecological and ornithological agencies. His Ph.D. research at the University of Illinois on migratory American Tree Sparrows that summered in Churchill, Manitoba gave him his first taste of the subarctic. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Research Council of Canada studying temperature regulation of boreal birds, he taught ecology and ornithology at the University of Rhode Island. In 1963 he helped form the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and spent the next 21 years conducting field and laboratory research on arctic and subarctic birds, mammals, and plants, and training graduate students. After serving as Acting Dean of the College of Biological Sciences and director of the Institute, he ended his academic career as Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Alaska Statewide System before retiring in 1984 as Professor of Zoophysiology, Emeritus. He has published over 120 scientific articles and books.