Photo: Nesting Long-Tailed Duck

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Photo By: Mark Maftei / WCS

The long-tailed duck is one of tens of thousands of birds that breed in Arctic Alaska's Teshekpuk Lake region, a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) revealed.

WCS’s Conservation Zoologist Steve Zack said, “Teshekpuk Lake is in the middle of the world’s biggest Arctic wetland, and thus at the heart of an international migration of shorebirds, waterfowl, loons, and songbirds that nest in this highly productive region during the short summer. This study makes clear how valuable this region is to breeding birds.”

The results of the study led the WCS to recommend that Alaska's Lake Teshekpuk region be granted permanent protection from energy development.

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