By: Kayley
The American Dipper is a songbird and it feeds under water.
Dippers are also called “Water Auzels”, and their Eskimo name, anaruk kiviruk,
translates as “old woman sunck”. The American dipper is a stocky,
solid gray bird, about 7-1/2 inches long (19cm), with a short tail.
The American dipper eats insects. On the average, dippers lay four
eggs which are incubated 16 to 18 days. After hatching, the young
birds spend about 24 days in the nest. This amount of time is about
twice as long as that of birds using open nests. Most streams have
very few adequate nesting sites for dippers. Identification and protection
of these sites may be crucial to maintaining dippers in a particular watershed.
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The Blue Whale
By: Kayley
The Blue whale is the largest living animal. Blue whales
from the southern hemisphere can reach 100 feet in length (30m).
Northern hemisphere animals are usually smaller, reaching 75-80 feet (23-27m)
and weighing 200,000 pounds (90,000 kg). Prior to whaling, the world
wide population of blue whales is believed to have been about 200,000 animals.
Source
Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series
www.state.ak.us/local/akpages/FISH.GAME/notebook/notehome.htm