Brian J. McCaffery Robert E. Gill Jr. 1999 <p>Bar-tailed Godwits <i>Limosa lapponica</i> were surveyed on their staging grounds in Alaska during September 1995 and 1997. The single high count of 94,000 birds closely matched that of counts from New Zealand and south-eastern Australia, the known non-breeding area for most of the <i>baueri</i> subspecies. Numbers recorded on the southern Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta and at Egegik Bay, a small estuary along the Alaska Peninsula, qualify both areas as Hemispheric Reserves under the Westem Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, as sites within the East Asian-Australian Shorebird Reserve Network, and as Ramsar sites. The breeding origins, destinations, and taxonomic affinities of Bar-tailed Godwits staging on the coast of south-west Alaska need further assessment. </p> application/pdf en Wader Study Group Bar-tailed Godwits <i>Limosa lapponica</i> in Alaska: A population estimate from the staging grounds article