Dunlin
Their diet varies with season and location, eating mostly insects on the tundra where they breed and small invertebrates on the coast.
On the coast they eat a wide variety of small creatures fond in the intertidal zone, including marine worms, snails and other mollusks, sometimes small fish, and even occasionally seeds and leaves.
They are much easier to identify when they’re in their breeding plumage and have that diagnostic black belly. This shot was taken in SE Alaska in July.
Marbled Godwits
Winter visitor
Ring-billed Gull, preening
Aptly named, Ring-billed
Our 2nd most common gull though it doesn’t breed in the state
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