Nome: Spring on the Tundra

Displaying shorebirds, Beringian specialties, fantastic scenery, and large mammals. There’s no place like Nome!

Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Nome. Photo Aaron Lang.
The Bristle-thighed Curlew hike offers stunning views of the Kuzitrin Mountains near Nome, Alaska. Photo Aaron Lang.
A scene from the Pleistocene. A Muskox on dry tundra near Nome.
Eastern Yellow Wagtail near Nome, Alaska. Photo Aaron Lang.
An Aleutian Tern cruises by the Nome Harbor. Photo Aaron Lang.
Both of our Nome trips enjoyed a very confiding male Spectacle Eider right in the Nome harbor!
The best bird of the trip might have actually been a wolf, only the second time we've ever seen one in Nome. This beautiful gray wolf stopped us in our tracks near Pilgrim Hotsprings.
Rock Ptarmigan near Nome. Photo Aaron Lang.
A striking red fox near Nome.
Nome's most special of specialties, the Bristle-thighed Curlew.
Red-throated Loon, Nome. Photo Aaron Lang
Common Loon is actually the hardest to find loon in the Nome area. Here's a nice comparison with a Yellow-billed Loon.
A Short-eared Owl flies by a group of birders near Nome, Alaska