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I met a clutch of nature photographers who were very excited about one of the birds here. I think the one they meant was the leftmost one in this shot. The other birds were all Greater Yellowlegs but this one was thought to be a Hudsonian Godwit. They were waiting for him to wake up so they could check to for a long, upturned bill. (Tossing pebbles to wake him up was under discussion but it was felt he might then fly away. Of course they were joking about the pebbles. The crew was still waiting when I moved on.)
A large shorebird with a long, upturned bill, the Hudsonian Godwit breeds in the Arctic and winters in southern South America. Its remote breeding and wintering grounds have kept it one of the least well known of American shorebirds. After breeding, the Hudsonian Godwit undertakes a migration from the subarctic to southern South America, in which it apparently makes nonstop flights of several thousand miles.