Over the weekend I went to the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center in downtown Kodiak, where they have a great exhibit on bears, salmon, birds, and their habitats. 

The Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1941 but President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and it protects 1.9 million acres of the Kodiak archipelago and the animals and plants that live here. 

I went specifically to focus on their bird exhibit, drawing birds and their odd features is something I sometimes have a hard time with, and at the visitors center they have beautiful life-like models of a few of the 247 species of birds that live on Kodiak like the Black Oystercatcher, Rock Sandpipers, Harlequin Ducks, Golden-Crowned Sparrows, Rock Ptarmigans, Long-Billed Dowitcher, and Bald Eagles.   

 You can read more about the Kodiak Wildlife Refuge here.

xo Anna