Upper Lynn Canal birders identified 77 species in the annual “Birdathon” that ran April 29 to May 5.
Participants were to observe and identify as many different species of birds as possible in a consecutive, 24-hour period, covering the Chilkat, Chilkoot and Ferebee watersheds from the Canadian border to Seduction Point.
Pam Randles, education coordinator for Takshanuk Watershed Council, said the eulachon run helped produce some unusual findings.
“We had quite a few pelagic cormorants,”…