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Living on Earth listens in on the birds of Teshekpuk Lake to learn how Alaska’s North Slope has changed with oil development.
Gerrit Vyn, a biologist with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has just returned from Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska with hours of bird recordings. He tells host Bruce Gellerman about some of the birds he saw, and what stands to be lost if the area is open to oil drilling.