- This is a rare bird for Southeast Alaska and Uncommon to Rare in other regions of the State.
- Nils Warnock, the Executive Director for Audubon Alaska, wrote in my Birds of Alaska book the following:
- “There are 53 shorebird species and subspecies that regularly occur in Alaska; 24 percent are deemed vulnerable or declining. One of these vulnerable species is the Hudsonian Godwit, a bird that migrates all the way from southern Chile to breed in Alaska. In its journey from Alaska to the southern tip of South America it faces threats from warming summers at the breeding grounds, loss of water and wetlands in the Midwest, the effects of deforestation in the Amazon, to disturbance at its wintering grounds in South America.”
