Went birding today in Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties, and one of my target species was an adult Bar-tailed Godwit still mostly in breeding plumage that has been hanging out in Tokeland for the last 3-4 weeks. Success was had, we found the Bar-tail in the mass flock of Marbled Godwits in the marina.
Tokeland seems to be the Bar-tailed Godwit capital of the lower 48, at least 1 shows up there per year, I've seen up to 3 there at a time, but this was my first still with this much breeding plumage.
October 2, 2010.
patchily in low Arctic tundra of n Palearctic: far n Scandinavia to Chukotskiy and Anadyr pens. (ne Russia) and n, w Alaska
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
AF, OR, AU : mainly temperate to tropical coasts: British Isles, s Europe, w Mediterranean, Africa, Malagasy region through Middle East, Indian subcontinent, se Asia, Indonesian Arch.; Ryukyu Is. (s Japan), se China, Taiwan, Philippines, Australasia from
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
