Morro Bay Sand Spit, San Luis Obispo Co., August 31, 2010.   Bar-tailed Godwit is a rare vagrant in California.  Flight views indicate this is race baueri, which beeds in eastern Russia to Alaska and spends non-breeding season from south China to Australasia.
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