Male Bar-tailed Godwit at a breeding site near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Male Bar-tailed Godwit at a breeding site near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. USGS and USFWS recently found ​that almost the entire population of ​Alaska-breeding bar-tailed godwits feed along sand bars near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River in autumn. These godwits spend the nonbreeding season primarily in eastern Australia and New Zealand after non-stop migrations across the Pacific Ocean.