Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)

Here's another winter resident, a Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala). These shorebirds breed only in Alaska during the spring and summer and then spend the winters further south. They like to poke around among the barnacles along the shoreline of the West Bay Walkway. Generally they move around in small flocks and this one was keeping company with about a dozen others.