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What is a Shorebird? Good question! Shorebird is a name given to the group of birds that are usually found along the shoreline. They include plovers, turnstones, sandpipers, dowitchers, and others. Some shorebirds can be found in Grays Harbor County all year; others only during their migration. A good way to start learning the common shorebirds is to attend the shorebird identification class and field trip at the Shorebird Festival.

Shorebirds commonly seen in Grays Harbor County during migration (How many have you seen? Can you find them all?) 

__Killdeer
__Black-bellied Plover
__Semipalmated Plover
__Greater Yellowlegs
__Wandering Tattler
__Whimbrel
__Marbled Godwit
__Ruddy Turnstone

__Surfbird
__Red Knot
__Sanderling
__Western Sandpiper
__Least Sandpiper
__Dunlin
__Short-billed Dowitcher
__Long-billed Dowitcher

A list of birds seen during the field trips of the 2008 Shorebird Festival can be downloaded here (Acrobat PDF file). You will need to download the Adobe Acrobat reader if you don't already have it.  
 
Best times to view shorebirds

Shorebirds can be viewed during the period about 2 hours before to 2 hours after high tide. During high tide, birds are closer and more concentrated for better viewing. For coastal viewing, tidal cycles are not as critical. High tides along the coast are about 1 hour earlier than at the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge.  
 

2008 High tide Best viewing
Friday May 2nd 11:30am 9:30am - 1:30pm
Saturday May 3rd 12:30am 10:30am - 2:30pm
Sunday May 4th 1:30pm 11:30am - 3:30pm

Click here to see a detailed schedule of the Best Shorebird Viewing Times for all of Spring 2008!
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If you have questions about the Shorebird Festival,
call 1-800-303-8498.

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Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival
P.O. Box 470
Montesano, WA 98563
Telephone: (800) 303-8498

Page last updated April 2, 2008