EXPERTS' PICKS: Top Spring Birding Spots - Six distinguished birders reveal their favorite places to watch birds during spring migration

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Tim Gallagher: Copper River Delta It's not exactly easy to get to Cordova, Alaska, on the shores of Prince William Sound. "The last time I visited it took me four different flights and 17 hours to get there," says Tim Gallagher. When he arrived, the spring weather felt familiar: "cold and rainy, just like Ithaca, New York," where Gallagher is editor-in-chief ot Living Bird at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. But for shorebird enthusiasts, the long flight to reach Alaska's Copper River Delta is well worth it. "In May," says Gallagher, "basically the entire Pacific coast population of western sandpipers (above) and dunlins (inset) goes through there."