Brandt found these birds common on the tundra about Hooper Bay, Alaska, where the dinful birds made themselves so conspicuous by their clamor that they seemed more plentiful than they were in reality.
The courtship is carried on with accentuated noise, so that every creature in the naborhood knows all about it. Both birds share domestic duties and are extremely aggressive in defense of their homes. They scold the intruder while running or wading, pausing at intervals to raise their long wings vertically and slowly folding them one at a time. These wings are capable of carrying the GODWITS down the eastern shore of Asia and to southern Australia and New Zealand in the winter migration.
Unalaska Island, Hooper Bay to Cape Blossom and Kowak River, Alaska.