Ma. Bishop et N. Warnock, Migration of Western Sandpipers: Links between their Alaskan stopover areas and breeding grounds, WILSON B, 110(4), 1998, pp. 457-462
Thirty-two radiomarked Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri), tagged in Calif
ornia and Washington, were relocated at stopover and breeding sites north a
nd west of the Copper River Delta, Alaska. At Cook Inlet, Alaska, seven of
the nine relocated birds were at Redoubt and Kachemak bays. Only 1 of the 1
7 birds relocated on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta had been previously detected
at Cook Inlet. Detections of birds in western Alaska provide evidence that
the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is the final breeding destination for many of th
e birds migrating through San Francisco and other Pacific Coast areas. The
Mulchatna River area, 325 km southeast of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, may su
pport a breeding population of Western Sandpipers.