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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		The Study Of One Bird, 43 Years In The Making
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:09:36
	Publish Date:		2019-02-16 12:01:00
	Description:		This story originally aired on February 17, 2018. George Divoky is a scientist in Seattle, at least most of the year. But don’t expect to find him around here during the summertime. He’ll be on a small, flat little island in the Arctic Ocean, off the Alaska coast, called Cooper Island. Back in 1975, Divoky was doing survey work there, when he came across a colony of arctic birds called Mandt’s Black Guillemots. They’re little pigeon-sized birds with bright red legs, and they’re one of the few seabird species that depend year-round on sea ice. “It was very interesting and very unique to find this colony. And I went back to the colony a number of times that summer ... never thought that I would see it again, never thought that I would essentially spend the next 45 years of my life on that island,” Divoky said. Over the years, the importance of his research became clearer: these birds are perfect indicators of the warming climate. Since discovering the colony, Divoky has not missed a
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