Auke Bay's Wild Kingdom | Juneau Empire

Surrounded by hundreds of common murres, an adult humpback whale shows its pectoral fin as it rolls in the water just outside the Don Statter Memorial Boat Harbor in Auke Bay on Monday. An increase in feed fish, herring, pollock and capelin, have been keeping a variety of birds and marine mammals feeding in the area for the last two weeks.

If you’ve visited Auke Bay’s Statter Harbor in the last few weeks, you’ve seen a world gone wild. For the past two weeks, hundreds of common murres, marbled murrelets, common loons, gulls and other birds have called to each other and dived for food around Auke Bay. Pods of sea lions surface in a tight … Continue reading Auke Bay’s Wild Kingdom