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Birds of Alaska-Updated 2020.10.13

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Godwit, Marbled 2013.5.23#123. I see a few of these Marbled Godwits every year but never seem to get a good photo opportunity. This bird concluded the most memorable shore bird shoot I ever had in Alaska. It started when I observed a strange group of birds flying right at me from the middle of the Inlet. They kept coming and landed about 30 yards from me. They were 16 Bristle Thighed Curlews that allowed me to photograph them for about 4 hours, along with some Whimbrels, Plovers and other shore birds. Just as the Curlews were leaving this Godwit dropped in and landed right in front of me while I was still shooting other shore birds. Cook Inlet south of Anchor river Alaska.
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Godwit, Marbled 2013.5.23#123. I see a few of these Marbled Godwits every year but never seem to get a good photo opportunity. This bird concluded the most memorable shore bird shoot I ever had in Alaska. It started when I observed a strange group of birds flying right at me from the middle of the Inlet. They kept coming and landed about 30 yards from me. They were 16 Bristle Thighed Curlews that allowed me to photograph them for about 4 hours, along with some Whimbrels, Plovers and other shore birds. Just as the Curlews were leaving this Godwit dropped in and landed right in front of me while I was still shooting other shore birds. Cook Inlet south of Anchor river Alaska.

Marbled godwitCook Inlet Alaska.

  • Godwit, Bar-tailed 2009.6.11#029. A typical breeding pair, the smaller buffy orange male and the larger darker grey brown female on a tundra pond. Coastal plain of the North Slope Alaska.
  • Godwit, Hudsonian. A spring male. Cook Inlet, Alaska. #527.152. 3x4 ratio format.
  • Godwit, Hudsonian 2005.5.25#051. A male waiting out a high 30 foot flood tide in Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • Godwit, Hudsonian 2005.5.25#051. A male waiting out the flood of a 30 foot tide in Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • Godwit, Hudsonian 2010.5.27#155. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • Godwit, Hudsonian 2010.5.27#197. A large female probing in Cook Inlet Alaska.
  • Godwit, Hudsonian 2013.5.18#799. There are only a few places to find these birds in the spring. We're lucky living in South Central Alaska that Cook inlet is a breeding area.This male in breeding color was all by himself the two days I observed him. Coastal area adjacent to Potter Marsh near Anchorage Alaska.
  • Godwit, Marbled 2013.5.23#123. I see a few of these Marbled Godwits every year but never seem to get a good photo opportunity. This bird concluded the most memorable shore bird shoot I ever had in Alaska. It started when I observed a strange group of birds flying right at me from the middle of the Inlet. They kept coming and landed about 30 yards from me. They were 16 Bristle Thighed Curlews that allowed me to photograph them for about 4 hours, along with some Whimbrels, Plovers and other shore birds. Just as the Curlews were leaving this Godwit dropped in and landed right in front of me while I was still shooting other shore birds. Cook Inlet south of Anchor river Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Barrow's 2013.3.27#1463. A handsome pair of breeding Birds. Seward Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Barrow's 2013.5.5#094. Taking off to follow his mate. Tern Lake, Kenai Peninsula Alaska.
  • Goldeneye,Barrow's 2013.5.13#224. A breeding pair of have claimed this small pond as thier territory. Tern Lake, Kenai Peninsula Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Barrow's 2014.4.9#654. A breeding pair courting. Seward Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Barrow's 2014.4.10#813. A handsome male foraging with a Harlequin duck for invertebrates in Bladder Wrack. Seward Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Barrow's 2014.4.10#821. A handsome drake foraging for invertebrates in Bladderwrack. Seward Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Barrow's 2014.4.22#678. Tern Lake, Kenia Peninsula Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Common 2009.4.20#094. Displaying and courting for a potential mate. Spenard Crossing, Anchorage Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Common 2011.4.20#158. A drake in breeding plumage. Spenard Crossing, Anchorage Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, Common 2012.4.9#236. Spenard Crossing, Anchorage Alaska.
  • Goldeneye, uncommon Barrow's/Common hybrid 2012.4.9#153. Spenard Crossing, Anchorage Alaska.
  • Goose, Canada, lesser sp's 2011.4.26#049. A courting pair in spring. Potter Marsh, Anchorage Alaska.
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