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White gull with gray back, bright red feet, and yellow bill peers down at the camera from its rock crevice perch.
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Swirling clouds of seabirds, rare Asiatic migrant birds, beaches of bellowing sea lions and fur seals, and salmon streams in abundance are a few of the wildlife highlights on the Alaska Maritime Refuge. The refuge is perhaps most unique for:

  • the sheer abundance of life (40,000,000 seabirds).
  • species and subspecies found nowhere else.
  • endangered and threatened marine mammals (Steller sea lion and otters).
  • the possibility that new species are yet to be found among the remote and rugged rocks, reefs and islands of the refuge.

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