Safety Sound is a unique mainland birding hot spot - a remote region of Western Alaska but with road access to the local transportation hub of Nome, which offers a range of visitor services. - USFWS
Safety Sound is a unique mainland birding hot spot - a remote region of Western Alaska but with road access to the local transportation hub of Nome, which offers a range of visitor services. - USFWS
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Many commercial birding tours visit Nome, especially in late May when melting ice along the southern Seward Peninsula provides open-water, feeding, and resting areas for migratory birds. Summer offers the chance to see some nesting birds more common to Asia that also nest here.
Arctic and subarctic water birds such as scoters, eiders, loons, and harlequin ducks can be found in abundance within the protected bays of Safety Sound. Bristle-thighed curlews and wandering tattlers migrate through and nest on the peninsula. - USFWS
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