The Alaskan Sealife Center was set up with money from Exxon as part of the Exxon Valdez settlement. It is a great collection of birds, mammals. and invertebrates. (not many Herptiles in Alaska!)
We took the special "Puffin Adventure" tour, which gave us a chance to feed the puffins, pigeon guillemots, common murres and more.
Horned Puffin:
Tufted Puffin:
Common Murre:
Pigeon Guillemot:
Doreen feeding a horned puffin:
Trying to feed the Murres
They were picky.
That is a red legged kittiwake on the left. They are very rare. The black legged kittiwakes are very common.
They also had fish:
Steller Seal Lions:
and Harbor Seals;
but we didn't feed any of them.
Time well spent.
We took the special "Puffin Adventure" tour, which gave us a chance to feed the puffins, pigeon guillemots, common murres and more.
Horned Puffin:
Tufted Puffin:
Common Murre:
Pigeon Guillemot:
Doreen feeding a horned puffin:
Trying to feed the Murres
They were picky.
That is a red legged kittiwake on the left. They are very rare. The black legged kittiwakes are very common.
They also had fish:
but we didn't feed any of them.
Time well spent.
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