Wildlife

The Southeast Alaska Birding Trail is a free, virtual guide to 18 communities across the bird-rich region.

“We’re definitely above average this year for large whale entanglements in Alaska, and in the Southeast,” said Sadie Wright, coordinator for NOAA’s large whale entanglement response program.

This is Jans’ 14th book, and his first that features photography more than writing.

Newly installed mesh along the Seward Highway is meant to catch falling rocks. Last week, it caught a sheep instead. 

Passengers aboard the cruise ship Ambition had just arrived Sunday in the port of Tórshavn in the Danish territory when they caught the spectacle, part of a long-standing and highly scrutinized local tradition.

NOAA asks that people report sightings of the entangled whales to the marine mammal hotline at (877) 925-7773, or to the U.S. Coast Guard on VHF Channel 16.