Virtually the entire Alaska breeding population of Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) are forced into a tiny area of intertidal mudflats at high tide. The highest tides push them inland to contend with powerlines and an industrialized landscape. Reclamation of mudlflats and pollution threaten this critical migratory stopover location. This is the gowits only stop on a northward migration from New Zealand to Alaska each spring. Without what remains the population will perish. Yalu Estuary,...
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Virtually the entire Alaska breeding population of Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) are forced into a tiny area of intertidal mudflats at high tide. The highest tides push them inland to contend with powerlines and an industrialized landscape. Reclamation of mudlflats and pollution threaten this critical migratory stopover location. This is the gowits only stop on a northward migration from New Zealand to Alaska each spring. Without what remains the population will perish. Yalu Estuary, China. May.
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