The last weekend in February, I joined an intrepid group from the Anchorage Audubon Society on a mission to go birding in Seward, despite a blizzard warning. The high-profile targets were two Eurasian species that had wandered far off course.

I was hiking up a ridge near Dan Moller cabin with a friend late one fall.

I filled my bird feeders and hung them, looking forward to the cheerful chatter of birds during winter. The next day, a chickadee or two showed up, but nothing else. A few more days went by, nothing.

We're heading out into Prince William Sound on a new adventure for this Wildlife Spy - searching for Pacific halibut. The boat is the Tango out of Valdez, a charter run by Mike and Patty Wing. They've been plying...

As fall settles in, this wildlife spy wonders about animals who dig in for the season - or all winter. People aren't the only creatures who adjust their surroundings...

...a meal. The only traces the owl leaves behind for a wildlife spy to find are a hole in the snow surrounded by feather...Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay in 1887. Unfortunately for wildlife spies in Juneau, they haven't been found on the Mendenhall...

...The larger the bird and the longer its bill, the further out into the water it can feed. This is a case where a wildlife spy can - literally - use a profile to help identify suspects from a distance.Sandpipers and their cousins spend much of...

...trick of wind, weather, timing and physics may be just the edge a bird needs to survive. Knowing these tricks gives a wildlife spy a better chance of catching the spectacle. Beth Peluso is a freelance writer, illustrator, and avid birder. She...

Wildlife spies often use binoculars to see animals far away, but along the shoreline, the most action is up close - in tidepools. And, the...

...wildlife viewing, binoculars and spotting scopes, allow you to scrutinize wildlife from a distance. But sometimes a wildlife spy needs to blend in. It helps to understand how various animals see, because some animals literally see the world very...