Title:
Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival Birdwalk in Beluga
Slough
Caption: Every May, the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival
takes place, based in Homer Alaska. Workshops, presentation,
and field events mark the festival, supported, in part
by the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, with
its headquarters in Homer. Community involvement is
crucial to the event. Shown here is one of the festival
birdwalks to Beluga Slough, allowing visitors a great
experience in environmental interpretation. The festival
provides wildlife watching, wildlife photography, and
environmental-interpretation opportunities for visitors.
Over 100,000 shorebirds will migrate through Kachemak
Bay each year on their journey to breeding grounds in
the Alaska tundra. Shorebirds commonly seen during the
festival include Western and Least Sandpipers, Dunlins,
Short-billed Dowitchers, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs,
Common Snipe, and Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plovers.
Besides shorebirds, Bald Eagles, Sandhill Cranes, and
Moose are among the varieties of local watchable wildlife
available to see. Early May brings the first warblers
and swallows to Homer along with Arctic and Aleutian
Terns, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels and Tufted and Horned
Puffins.
Creator:
Laubenstein, Karen Source: digital/AKMNWR/004114
Publisher: USFWS
Contributor:
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
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