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Birds of Alaska-Updated & Regrouped 2020.10.14

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SANDPIPERS-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.
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SANDPIPERS-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.

Alaska long billed dowitcher

  • PLOVERS-Plover, American Golden 2014.6.23#1621. Mile 13, Denali Highway Alaska.
  • PLOVERS-Plover, Black-bellied 2005.5.6#013. Near the mouth of the Kenai River, Alaska.
  • PLOVERS-Plover, Black-bellied 2015.6.22#675. Along the road to Wooly Lagoon off the Teller Road, Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • PLOVERS-Plover, Pacific Golden 2011.5.10#011. Foraging in a vernal pond. Kenai Nat. Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
  • PLOVERS-Plover, Pacific Golden 2015.6.22#. 32 mile Teller road, Seward Peninsula Alaska.
  • PLOVERS-Plover, Semipalmated 2012.7.10#144. Atigun Pass, Phillip Smith Mountains Brook's Range Alaska.
  • PLOVERS-Plover, Semipalmated 2012.7.10#152. Atigun Pass. Brooks Range Alaska.
  • PLOVERS-Plover, Semipalmated 2015.6.23#984. Kougarok road, Nome area, Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-2013.5.13#074. A group of Dunlin and Western Sandpipers sets up for probing at waters edge as the tide is on the ebb. Kachemak Bay, Homer Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-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 it was probably an exoskeleton and the reason for the lack of interest. Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#202. Foraging through kelp and bladderwrack. Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-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.
  • SANDPIPERS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#249. Cook Inlet near Anchor river, A bird rarely seen on the east side of Cook Inlet, South Central Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Curlew, Bristle-thighed 2013.5.23#263. A good image featuring the "bristles" they are named for. Cook Inlet south of Anchor river Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-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.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dowitcher, Long-billed 2009.5.12#229. Cook Inlet, Anchorage Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-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.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dowitcher, Short-Billed 2009.5.12#152. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2009.5.12#152. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SANDPIPERS-Dowitcher, Short-billed 2013.5.12#288. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
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