Brina Kessel

“{{cite web|title=Brina Kessel (1925 – 2016)|website=University of Alaska Museum Department of Ornithology|url=https://www.universityofalaskamuseumbirds.org/brina-kessel-1925-2016/}}”

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“The author takes a {{w|Joseph Grinnell#Grinnell Method of note taking|Grinnell}}ian approach to identifying the major environmental factors that help define the species-specific niches of {{w|taiga}} birds in Alaska. In her study, she censused breeding birds on twelve 10-{{w|Hectare|ha}} plots selected to represent fairly homogeneous tracts of each of the major {{w|habitat}}s described for Alaska's taiga.”

“Young {{w|puffin}}s are unable to fly when they leave the nest; they fall and flutter to the water below and swim immediately ...”

“Most {{w|shearwater}}s leave the {{w|Bering Sea}} during September and October (Hunt et al. 1981b), but stragglers have been recorded as far north as {{w|Barrow, Alaska|Barrow}} as late as any water exists, even to mid-November ({{w|Ira Noel Gabrielson|Gabrielson}} and {{w|Frederick Charles Lincoln|Lincoln}} 1959).”

“{{cite journal|title=Late-autumn and winter bird records from interior Alaska|journal=Condor|year=1967|pages=313–316|url=https://academic.oup.com/condor/article-abstract/69/3/313/5229164?redirectedFrom=fulltext}}”

“A maximum of 140 species of birds can be seen more-or-less regularly each year in interior Alaska. Of these species, however, only 28 can be considered regular winter residents, including two hawks, six {{w|Grouse|tetraonid}}s, five owls, four {{w|woodpecker}}s, and eleven {{w|passerine}}s ...”