Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska

James W. Bee

Where the tundra runs flat to the Arctic Ocean, the summer sky fills with nesting birds for a few frantic weeks. James Bee's survey catalogs the species of northern Alaska's arctic slope: who arrives, who breeds, who vanishes when the light goes. A fieldworker's record of one of the continent's harshest, briefest nurseries. Precise, observant, and quietly astonishing.