Subject: The Trip of The Century!! ATTU
Date: Oct 24 18:59:10 1998
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - godwit at worldnet.att.net


Hello Tweeters,
This got the report What birds was sighted in ATTU this year. There where
over 11,000 of individual sightings of Asien species. The way it may sounds
2000: might be the last time any-one can visit this last island in the
Aleutians, the most remote and rarrly-visited accessible area of the
United States. Since i am interested to go in 2000 i ask tweeters what
time would be the best to pick May or June. The first start at May 12 and
it ends on June 17. There also going to be a trip in the fall, which there
going to be announced. This are the birds what was sighted this on two
trips. 35 Black-tailed Godwit, 700 Wood Sandpipers,110 Long-toed Stints,
180 Eyebrowed Thrushes, 225 Olive-backed Pipits, 193 Rustic Buntings, 336
Bramblings,18 Hawfinches. Here is the whole list of bird :
Artic Loon
Whooper Swan
Eurasian Wigeon
Common Pochard
Tafted Duck
Smew
Pacific Golden Plover
Mongolian Plover
Common Greenshank
SpottedRedshank
Wood Sandpiper
Sky Lark
Gray-spotted Flycatcher
Sibirian Rubythroat
Red-flanked Buetail
Eyebrowed Thrush
Dusky Thrush
Gray Wagtail
Black-backed Wagtail
Common Sandpiper
Terek Sandpiper
Far Eastern Curlew
Black-tailed Godwit
Great Knot
Red-necked Stint
Temmick's Stint
Sharp-tailed Sandpipers
Ruff
Pin-tailed Snipe
Black-headed Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Olive-backed Pipit
Pechora Pipit
Yellow-throated Bunting
Rustic Bunting
Brambling
Oriental Greenfinch
Hawfinch
Ruth Sullivan