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Birds of Alaska-Updated & Regrouped 2023.8.30..

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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.
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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.

long billed Dowitcher 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.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-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.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Godwit, Hudsonian. A spring male. Cook Inlet, Alaska. #527.152.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Godwit, Hudsonian 2005.5.25#051. A male waiting out a high 30 foot flood tide in Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Godwit, Hudsonian 2005.5.25#051. A male waiting out the flood of a 30 foot tide in Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Godwit, Hudsonian 2010.5.27#155. Cook Inlet near Anchorage Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-Godwit, Hudsonian 2010.5.27#197. A large female probing in Cook Inlet Alaska.
  • SHORE & TUNDRA BIRDS-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.
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