In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

On Count Day, 29 field volunteers gathered at the Alaska Maritime National ... followed by black scoters, a large sea duck, at 680. Both duck species are commonly found in Kachemak Bay.

A rare spectacled eider (Somateria fisheri) has been spotted on the Wadden island of Texel, far away from its usual wintering place in the Bering Sea where the species ... duck will hang around on ...