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Dr. Jeff Wells is the Senior Scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative. During his time at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and as the Audubon Society's National Conservation Director, Dr. Wells earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading bird experts and conservation biologists. He is now dedicated to understanding and protecting the land where North America's birds are born and raised, the Boreal Forest of Canada and Alaska. Check back regularly to read Dr. Wells' perspectives on the conservation, migration and interesting habits of Boreal birds.

Deline and Magpies

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Deline at Sunrise
Credit: Ed Reeves

Last week I wrote about the report released by Audubon last week that documented northward range shifts in 177 bird species. Coverage of the report was incredibly widespread with hundreds of media stories (click here to the story in USA Today).

In one story I was quoted talking about the northward expansion of Black-billed Magpies into the Northwest Territories of Canada. I had mentioned my experience of seeing a Black-billed Magpie in the 600-person community of Deline on Great Bear Lake when I visited there two summers ago, which I wrote about in a previous blog.

Recently my friend Ed Reeves who lives in Deline sent me some of his winter photos of there that I thought it would be fun to share below.

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Deline Snow
Credit: Ed Reeves

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Town of Deline
Credit: Ed Reeves

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Moon
Credit: Ed Reeves

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The Great Open
Credit: Ed Reeves

forest
Forest and Wildlife
Credit: Ed Reeves

night
Deline at Night
Credit: Ed Reeves

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Horizon Glow
Credit: Ed Reeves

One Response to “Deline and Magpies”

  1. Of Deline (NWT) and Black-billed Magpies | Arctos Canadensis Says:

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