Photos Fauna

Photo Gallery of Animals at Utqiaġvik and Atqasuk (and occasionally elsewhere in Alaska)

All pictures were taken by AEP personnel, please feel free to use them for educational purposes.
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life in the tundra

Mammals

Polar bear swimming in water.

Polar Bear

Polar bear in a field.

Polar bear swimming in the water.

Whale (Bowhead?) spouting water.

(Bowhead?) Whale

Whale bones washed up on the beach.

A walrus on the beach.

Walrus

A caribou standing in water.

Caribou

A caribou in the field.

A caribou with large antlers.

Multiple caribou in a field.

A caribou with large antlers.

A caribou molting its winter fur.

Many caribou running in a field.

Many caribou running in a field.

A caribou with large antlers.

A caribou still has a winter coat.

Three caribou in a field.

Many caribou in a field.

A caribou in the research field.

A mother caribou with her calf.

Jeremy and Sarah watch as a caribou runs near the Toolik tram transect.

A dead caribou carcass on the tundra.

Red fox kit watches keeps watch at Imnavait

Red Fox

Two red fox kits snuggle after a rain.

Two arctic fox pups stare near a pipe.

Arctic Fox

Two arctic fox pups laying down.

Two arctic fox pups climbing on pipes.

An adult arctic fox stands in the tundra.

An ermine climbing on research equipment.

Ermine

An ermine pokes its head out from the boardwalk.

An ermine close up on the tundra.

An ermine from above.

A lemming hiding under wood.

Lemming

A lemming in a chamber.

A lemming hiding in wood.

A ground squirrel eating a seed.

Ground Squirrel

A ground squirrel next to a chamber.

A ground squirrel sticking its tongue out.

A ground squirrel next to the board walk.

A ground squirrel sniffing the ground.

Moose stands in tundra.

Moose

Musk ox stands in tundra.

Musk Ox

Musk ox stands in tundra.

Musk oxen lay down in tundra.

Musk oxen lay down in tundra.

Birds

Snowy owl on a light.

Snowy Owl

Snowy owl in a field.

Snowy owl on the board walk.

Baby snowy owl is hungry.

Baby snowy owl is sleepy.

Baby snowy owl in the nest.

Snowy owl chicks in the nest.

Long-tailed Jaeger flying.

Long-tailed Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger up close.

Parasitic Jaeger flying.

Parasitic Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger on the board walk.

Parasitic Jaeger in a field.

Two Arctic Tern sitting on a solar panel.

Arctic Tern

Arctic Tern sitting on a solar panel.

Arctic Tern flying.

Willow Ptarmigan up close.

Willow Ptarmigan

Willow Ptarmigan in the field.

Willow Ptarmigan next to a chamber.

Willow Ptarmigan chicks in a field.

Willow Ptarmigan in a field.

Willow Ptarmigan sitting on her nest.

Willow Ptarmigan in between researcher's legs.

Multiple Willow Ptarmigan in a field.

Arctic loon in the water.

Arctic Loon

Tundra swans in the water.

Tundra Swan

Duck species in the water.

Duck species

American Golden Plover on the board walk.

American Golden Plover

American Golden Plover taking flight.

Lapland Longspur in the grass.

Lapland Longspur

Lapland Longspur in the grass.

Lapland Longspur on a point frame.

Lapland Longspur on the tram.

Lapland Longspur in its nest.

Lapland Longspur in the grass.

Lapland Longspur in the grass.

Lapland Longspur up close.

Lapland Longspur in the grass.

Lapland Longspur mother with her chicks.

Lapland Longspur chicks in the nest.

Lapland Longspur chicks in the nest.

Lapland Longspur eggs.

Lapland Longspur eggs.

Snow bunting chicks in the nest.

Snow Bunting

Snow bunting chicks in the nest.

Snow bunting eggs in the nest.

Horned Lark on a traffic cone.

Horned Lark

Long-billed Dowitcher in the water.

Long-billed Dowitcher

Long-billed Dowitcher in the water.

Dunlin in the grass.

Dunlin

Dunlin in the snow.

Dunlin in the grass.

Goose eggs in the nest.

Goose eggs

Goose eggs in the nest.

Broken goose egg.

Goose chick.

Plover chick.

plover chick.

Plover chick.

Ocean

Northern Sea Nettle in a jar.

Northern Sea Nettle

Northern Sea Nettle on the beach.

Northern Sea Nettle in the water.

Fish are scattered across shore gravel.

Fish are scattered across shore gravel.

Fish lays on shore gravel.

Insects

A fuzzy caterpillar in the vegetation.

A fuzzy caterpillar in the vegetation.

A bumble bee on a flower.

A mosquito close up.

Mosquitos on a hat.

Mosquitoes hover outside plane.

A shiny beetle on researcher's thumb.

A moth on the ground.

Dragonfly on the boardwalk

Fly landing on a pollinator exclusion bag

Black swallowtail caterpillar

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