Spring-Summer Migratory Bird Harvest 2024 -FONSI

Spring-Summer Migratory Bird Harvest 2024 -FONSI
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This document reviews the proposed action of opening the spring-summer subsistence hunt for migratory birds for the year 2024.  There was a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) on nesting migratory birds or to the quality of the human environment according the National Enivronmental Policy Act (NEPA) protocols.

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Alaska Migratory Birds Office
Alaska is home to more than 470 species of birds. Most are migratory birds for which the Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible under international treaties and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. While some of the birds stay in Alaska year-round, most migrate to Canada, Central America, South America...
Conservation Office
Anchorage,AK
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Program
A large bird with brown feathers, white head, and yellow beak flies against a pale blue sky
The Migratory Bird Program works with partners to protect, restore and conserve bird populations and their habitats for the benefit of future generations by: ensuring long-term ecological sustainability of all migratory bird populations, increasing socioeconomic benefits derived from birds,...
Program
Washington,DC
A rocky shoreline of a river. The water is calm. Mist and green branches line the river.
The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
Program
Baileys Crossroads,VA
Species
A white and black bird glides over the water with tundra in the background

43-47 cm. Smallish marine duck with squarish head and angular bill; breeding plumage male unmistakable (in eclipse blackish with white secondary coverts); 1st winter male brown with faint suggestion of male head markings - blackish throat and collar; female red-brown with blue tertials (except...

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Animalia
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Species
A swimming bird with a circle around it's eye, which looks like a spectacle

Spectacled eiders are large sea ducks, 52 to 56 centimeters long (20 to 22 inches). In the winter and spring, adult males are in breeding plumage with a black chest, white back, and pale green head with a long, sloping forehead and white patches resembling spectacles around the eyes. During the...

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Kingdom
Animalia
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Species
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Coastal
Marine
Tundra
Wetland
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Migratory birds
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Endangered and/or Threatened species
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Alaska