Other+Wild+life

There is many different kinds of wildlife in the great state of Alaska, it goes beyond the grizzy bears, wolf and other kinds of animals that most people think about when they think of Alaska.

The porcupine is second in size only to the beaver among rodents of Alaska and has the northernmost range of all the world’s porcupines. The stout, short-legged mamal is usually 25 to 31 inches long and is covered with hair and quills of varying length. There is many different birds in Alaska from the Red-necked Grebe Horned Grebes Mew Gull Bonapart’s Gull Arctic tern Arctic Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Wilson’s Warbler