I recommend the shorebird pages of the Alaska Science Center: http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/shorebirds/index.html . Alaska is the summer home of many of the shorebirds now passing through, and some of the eyebrow-raising aspects of their research include: 1. Non-migratory Alaskan sandpipers, spending the winter there 2. Shorebirds breeding in mountainous terrain, like Baird's SP 3. Interactive maps of radio-tagged long-distance migrations among godwits and curlews now underway; the bar-tailed godwits are about to undertake a migration that includes an 11,000-km non-stop flight over the Pacific (7 days aloft). The site is still under construction. It has a good list of links to other sources of information about shorebirds. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]