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Article: SHOREBIRDS BY THE THOUSANDS DO FLY-IN.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 16, 2002
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Byline: NATALIE PHILLIPSAnchorage Daily News
They come by the thousands, sometimes the millions.
Not the people; the birds.
Every spring, shorebirds - mostly dunlins and western sandpipers - battle storms and travel as far as 1,900 miles in 48 hours to layover and feed on south-central Alaska tidal flats before setting flight for their nesting grounds in western Alaska, specifically the Yukon-Kuskowim Delta.
Their layover is short.
"It all happens quickly, in about a 10-day to two-week period," said Stan Senner, executive director of Audubon Alaska. That period comes in early May.
Some of the same shorebirds can ...