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Birds of Alaska-Updated & Regrouped 2022.11.4.

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SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#079. Trying to figure out what to do with the Helmet crab. The curlew has found the crab in a large soft mass of Kelp. I thought that maybe he couldn't break it on rocks like he normally would, but it was brought to my attention by a biologist friend it was probably an exoskeleton and the reason for the lack of interest. Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.
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SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#079. Trying to figure out what to do with the Helmet crab. The curlew has found the crab in a large soft mass of Kelp. I thought that maybe he couldn't break it on rocks like he normally would, but it was brought to my attention by a biologist friend it was probably an exoskeleton and the reason for the lack of interest. Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.

  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed. 2013.5.23#178.4. I got to photograph these rare Curlews probing the strand line for about four hours. The majority of what they kept showing me were these tiny tube worms. Eastern Cook Inlet near Anchor River Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, bristle-thighed. 2013.5.23#245.4. Probing with a Marbled Godwit and a Whimbrel. Eastern shore of Cook Inlet,Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#079. Trying to figure out what to do with the Helmet crab. The curlew has found the crab in a large soft mass of Kelp. I thought that maybe he couldn't break it on rocks like he normally would, but it was brought to my attention by a biologist friend it was probably an exoskeleton and the reason for the lack of interest. Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#202. Foraging through kelp and bladderwrack. Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#234. The largest bird in a group of Curlews I was fortunate to find and photograph. Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#249. Cook Inlet near Anchor river, A bird very rarely seen on the east side of Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#263. A good image featuring the "bristles" they are named for. Cook Inlet near Anchor river Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dowitcher, Long-billed 2006.5.23#0077. These birds arrived shortly after the Short billed Dowitcher's and Least & Western Sandpipers. They were mixed with Pectoral Sandpipers. They stopped for a short time to refuel on the shores of Cook Inlet near Potter Marsh before continuing north.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dowitcher, Long-billed 2009.5.12#229. Cook Inlet, Anchorage Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dowitcher, Long-billed 2013.5.14#117. In breeding plumage. I was lucky to find these birds resting and refueling at a fresh water marsh on the lower Kenai Peninsula Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dowitcher, Short-Billed 2009.5.12#152. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2009.5.12#152. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2013.5.12#288. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2013.5.19#129. Doing a fly about after a Northern Harrier scare. Cook Inlet Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2014.6.15#114. Near a nesting area. Cook Inlet near Potter Marsh Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dunlin 2005.5.7#016. A male in breeding plumage probes the mud along Homer Spit in Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dunlin 2011.5.10#218. In breeding color probing in Mud Bay, Homer Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dunlin 2013.5.14#354. A handsome male in breeding color trying to open mussels in Mud Bay, on Homer Spit Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Dunlin and Western Sandpipers 2013.5.13#112. Probing Mud Bay, Homer Spit Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Godwit, Bar-tailed 2009.6.11#008. This male in breeding color was accompanied by a typically larger female. Found in a small tundra pond on the coastal plain of the North Slope Alaska.
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