The Bob Blodgett Nome-Teller Memorial Highway is a 72-mile gravel road running northwest from Nome to the Inpupiat village of Teller (Tala). The road skirts the western flank of the Kigluaik Mountains (the Sawtooth Range) through some of the country's earliest gold-mining areas. The Bering Sea is to the west.
In 1970, the first of two transports of musk oxen, Ovibos moschatus, from Nunivak Island, part of the repatriated herds descended from the Greenland herd, were released near mile 36, the bridge over the Feather River and the site of an airstrip.
Other mammals:
Moose, Alces alces:
Arctic ground squirrel (sicsic), Urocitellus parryii:
Birds:
Loons:
Red-throated loon, Gavia stellata:
Cormorants:
Pelagic cormorant, Phalacrocorax pelagicus:
Geese:
Canada goose, Branta canadensis:
Ducks:
Long-tailed duck (oldsquaw), Clangula hyemalis:
Greater scaup, Aythya marila:
Ptarmigans:
Willow ptarmigan, Lagopus lagopus:
Rock ptarmigan, Lagopus mutus:
Plovers:
Blak-bellied plover, Pluvialis squatarola:
American golden-plover, Pluvialis dominica:
Common ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula:
Sandpipers:
Red knot, Calidris canutus:
Common snipe, Gallinago gallinago:
Jaegers:
Long-tailed jaeger (long-tailed skua), Stercorarius longicaudus:
Gulls:
Mew gull, Larus canus:
Glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus:
Terns:
Arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea:
Larks:
Horned lark, Eremophila alpestris:
Swallows:
Tree swallow, Tachycineta bicolor:
Dippers:
American dipper (water ouzel), Cinclus maxicanus:
Thrushes:
Northern wheatear (male), Oenanthe oenanthe:
Gray-cheeked thrush, Catharus minimus:
American robin, Turdus migratorius:
Shrikes:
Northern shrike, Lanius excubitor:
Sparrows:
Golden-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia atricapilla:
Savannah sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis:
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Last modified 29 November 2023