St. Matthew Island Alaska Expedition

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  • Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
  • Cornell Lab Multimedia producer Andy Johnson spent a month on the remote Alaskan island of St. Matthew filming the endemic Pribilof Rock Sandpiper and McKay's Bunting. Andy reports on a changing arctic as well as the incredible birdlife he documented there.
    Read the full article in the Cornell Lab's Living Bird magazine: www.allaboutbi...
    The 2018 St. Matthew expedition was conducted in cooperation with the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and made possible through the support of the National Fish And Wildlife Foundation.
    #arctic #birds #alaska #birdwatching #rare

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  • @cornell_lab
    @cornell_lab  5 років тому +40

    Thanks for watching. Please spread the word to help protect these amazing places and creatures.

  • @FazlayElahi
    @FazlayElahi Рік тому +1

    Things we are seeing on just a smartphone screen which maybe, will never be able for me to experience with my own eyes.....!!
    Is just a Thanks to this channel or to the whole team would be enough for making such type of video content?!!
    No. Never. Not at all...!!
    Thanks is not enough....!! You people deserve the heartiest Love and Respect from around the world....!!
    Also we should never forget about crediting the people who were behind creating UA-cam.
    Best wishes from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 ❤

  • @StefanoIaniro
    @StefanoIaniro 5 років тому +26

    This was incredible! Very well done. Great story.

  • @shaolinslumz
    @shaolinslumz 8 місяців тому +1

    Beautiful! Thank you.

  • @mariea654
    @mariea654 5 років тому +4

    Fabulous, fabulous. Life at its best with nature and animals. No human to destroy it.

  • @CharismaticPlanet3822
    @CharismaticPlanet3822 5 років тому +10

    Thumbs up for such a lovely documentary. These are rare birds i ever see. Beautiful is a small word for this awesome video. Great job.

  • @lindarocco9974
    @lindarocco9974 5 років тому +5

    Thank you for your hard work and such a beautiful film.

  • @dashi4086
    @dashi4086 5 років тому +3

    thanks so much for sharing these lovely pictures. 🐣❤

  • @maryrosekent8223
    @maryrosekent8223 5 років тому +11

    Those sandpiper chicks are so dang cute!

  • @rickicoughlan8299
    @rickicoughlan8299 Місяць тому

    Just awesome. What a treasure house of beauty, wonder and inspiration. We must overcome climate change . . . we all have our part to play, avoiding fossil fuels and animal products.

  • @sallypian3524
    @sallypian3524 5 років тому +7

    This is such a beautiful and touching video. Thank you for your work !

  • @dianedepremesnil1896
    @dianedepremesnil1896 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you for that lovely documentary!

  • @susanrentz4512
    @susanrentz4512 5 років тому +4

    Beautiful

  • @patgordon7601
    @patgordon7601 3 роки тому

    Going to spread the word. I enjoy everything you do, I thank you

  • @carmenmichaelian8307
    @carmenmichaelian8307 5 років тому +4

    Beautiful footage and awareness. Thank you for posting this. I hope something can be done to preserve the island and the shore birds.

  • @birb3378
    @birb3378 5 років тому +2

    McKay's buntings look so adorable! They look so much like snow buntings

  • @S-hz8iv
    @S-hz8iv Рік тому

    I found this video because of a book discussing the future of these bird species - and the rest of the Arctic ecosystem - and I wanted to see and hear them through your amazing work. I hope I can one day travel there and observe them in person. Thank you!

  • @mckeesbird4715
    @mckeesbird4715 3 роки тому

    Learned of McKays snowflakes from Discover magazine article and want to thank you for this delightful video that lets me see and hear them along with all the other creatures on St. Matthew. So educational and well done.

  • @rogeriopeccioli1616
    @rogeriopeccioli1616 5 років тому +5

    Excelente!! O documentário poderia ser maior. São tantas belezas e tanta vida para serem mostradas.
    Parabéns a todos.

  • @jonhanson1863
    @jonhanson1863 5 років тому +4

    i love birds

  • @rinirichiemk5918
    @rinirichiemk5918 5 років тому +2

    No words amazing i subscribed your channel 👌👍

  • @oneshotme
    @oneshotme 5 років тому +4

    Enjoyed and gave a Thumbs Up also

  • @stonemuse
    @stonemuse 5 років тому +3

    Well done. Keep up the good work!

  • @stringskahler
    @stringskahler 5 років тому +3

    Wonderful documentary, sad and uplifting at the same time.

  • @gayathrir7771
    @gayathrir7771 5 років тому +4

    Wow excellent beautiful nice video so nice

  • @ptownneal
    @ptownneal 5 років тому +6

    #1 DREAM JOB!!!!!

  • @TopTop0011Sureshpal
    @TopTop0011Sureshpal 5 років тому +4

    Nice video👍

    • @cornell_lab
      @cornell_lab  5 років тому +2

      Thanks, it's a wonderful place!

  • @mahmoodahmedbhatti1548
    @mahmoodahmedbhatti1548 5 років тому +5

    Lovely nice

  • @arhambirds7874
    @arhambirds7874 5 років тому +4

    Nice

  • @victorfernandes3811
    @victorfernandes3811 Рік тому

    Good work !

  • @goldenoriolesilverbirch8220
    @goldenoriolesilverbirch8220 3 роки тому

    Beautifully filmed. ( Tasteful music )

  • @sreenivasmurthy4171
    @sreenivasmurthy4171 5 років тому +1

    No words amazing

  • @mylesromin7636
    @mylesromin7636 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing 🙌🏽

  • @pameladarrah7025
    @pameladarrah7025 5 років тому +7

    What are we doing to this beautiful planet and its inhabitants? So sad.

    • @Madskills-hw2ox
      @Madskills-hw2ox 5 років тому

      Pamela Darrah
      Exactly 🙏🏻

    • @olivercraig4148
      @olivercraig4148 3 роки тому +1

      The ones who have the real power the huge corporations don't give a damn. All that matters is huge profits. The planet is being driven to a monumental disaster.

  • @shiao3990
    @shiao3990 5 років тому +2

    love it!

  • @CarolMcGuigan
    @CarolMcGuigan 5 років тому +1

    Beautiful and yet sad 😞

  • @v.gorski3050
    @v.gorski3050 4 роки тому +1

    Just viewing this video in 3/2020. Beautiful! Proof of global warming and I would hope that the Science channels can add this to future programs that document that problem. 🤞🏼. TY for your work .

  • @МакьшумМохаммед

    amazing...

  • @justindickman2351
    @justindickman2351 3 роки тому

    Always touch’s my heart I want too do this when i grow up

    • @hswing11
      @hswing11 2 роки тому

      😜😩😝😵☠️💀🤑🤑🤑💰💰

  • @pacificnorthwestgirl2725
    @pacificnorthwestgirl2725 4 місяці тому

    What a beautiful place in Alaska, thank you. Was it mentioned what killed all of the birds along the beach? In the video, it said over 250 of them had died.

  • @ImperialDiecast
    @ImperialDiecast 4 роки тому +1

    best place to escape corona

  • @Pottery4Life
    @Pottery4Life 5 років тому +2

    Is this a re-post? Seems very familiar. Thank you for sharing. Would love to see more like this in detail.

    • @Pottery4Life
      @Pottery4Life 5 років тому

      Perhaps it was the Yellow Sea video I'm thinking of...

  • @findkip
    @findkip 5 років тому +3

    Cool

  • @maryrosekent8223
    @maryrosekent8223 5 років тому +1

    Is that an eider on the shore at :30-:34?

  • @ZurikanFX7
    @ZurikanFX7 2 роки тому

    I often wonder what lies up here. Its a very unexplored part of the world, and i sometimes wonder if this is where the ogopogo came from and got stuck in a lake in BC

  • @aliendudes8943
    @aliendudes8943 5 років тому +1

    2019?

  • @pvsheridan
    @pvsheridan 5 років тому +2

    Regarding your later statements about a "warming Arctic" and "rapid flux" and "losing the ice that has defined the existence of its inhabitants for a millennia," we read the following fairly recent Washington Post report, quote:
    "The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department . . . Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers . . . all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.”
    Your comments/responses are welcome.

    • @smalltowndowntown9199
      @smalltowndowntown9199 3 роки тому

      The bait is set but no nibbles yet

    • @pvsheridan
      @pvsheridan 3 роки тому

      @@smalltowndowntown9199 I am thinking that the two thumbs up did *not* GET IT. :)

  • @أحمد-ه5ق6ف
    @أحمد-ه5ق6ف 5 років тому +3

    😘😘😘

  • @familyof6loverslove184
    @familyof6loverslove184 3 роки тому +1

    This is my name Matthew

  • @alanhamaali2083
    @alanhamaali2083 2 роки тому

    Wanna visit to there please 🥰

  • @haroonahmed-hc3re
    @haroonahmed-hc3re Рік тому +1

    I don’t understand- what are all these birds being protected from?? Most in that region have no value to humans for exploitation - maybe the protection is for seals etc . and by default the birds in Same region?

  • @Madskills-hw2ox
    @Madskills-hw2ox 5 років тому +1

    👍🏻

  • @anggaadds_6520
    @anggaadds_6520 Рік тому

    Aku wingi mancing Nang Kono iwak e akeh

  • @34mrt89
    @34mrt89 2 роки тому

    👍🏽🇹🇷

  • @Jamesdylandean
    @Jamesdylandean 3 роки тому

    I have read of this island in other accounts that render it non-livable for humans. I find that hard to believe, if we plan on living on Mars, a much more inhospitable ecosystem. I think that it could be done with prebuilt or easily assembled living quarters flown in by helicopters. It is uncertain if homegrown eatables will ever be sufficiently abundant there. But, perhaps green houses could be assembled and fed by available steam vents on the island. As to reasons to even try: to prevent Soviet incursions, which are occurring all around Russia. Perhaps as a safety port for Alaska fishing fleets, along with processing and resupplies. A permanent scientific presence to document changes in the ecology as a study to indicate this pattern in other places. A communication site for Alaska Bering Sea vessels, with satellite connections, too. Perhaps a small productive population to help drain off the over population in other areas. I would like to hear of the first child to be born there again, since in many years past. I am old and retired. Would love to be one of the new settlers to develop the place.

  • @elizabethseltzer1011
    @elizabethseltzer1011 5 років тому +2

    Is there any beautiful place we are not destroying?

    • @twillafaye515
      @twillafaye515 5 років тому +2

      Who is "we"? A lot of climate change IS NOT man made.

  • @somehuman1901
    @somehuman1901 4 роки тому

    So sad about the warming.

  • @youssifjassim1814
    @youssifjassim1814 4 роки тому

    What a magnificent video! Thanks to channel owner. Very much appreciative indeed.
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  • @monasingh-theo2859
    @monasingh-theo2859 Рік тому

    I married and then joined defence organisation...2 kids...i always need to work on marriage/community..the lives of women is different if had job before marriage...i hate /jealous such women...

  • @hswing11
    @hswing11 2 роки тому

    Can you believe a expodishion to record birds on a remote island B F D😜👎😵☠️👎