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- These included the first clutches ever collected of spoon-billed sandpiper and surfbird.
- "Surfbird " arrived at Pearl Harbor and on 26 May departed there for Okinawa Retto, via Eniwetok, Guam and Ulithi.
- "Surfbird " sailed from Shanghai on 17 November for San Diego on 14 April, and was decommissioned on 5 June 1946.
- A 2004 study found that the genus was polyphyletic and that the closest relative of the two knot species is the surfbird ( currently " Aphriza virgata " ).
- "Surfbird " was laid down on 15 February 1944 by the American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio; launched on 31 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs . F . W . Chambers; and commissioned on 25 November 1944 with Lt . R . H . Nelson, Jr ., USNR, in command.
- It offers road access to alpine terrain not that common in Alaska and, in the brief birding season there, good viewing of a number of alpine breeders, including Arctic Warbler, Smith's Longspur, Long-tailed Jaeger, Whimbrel, Surfbird, Lapland Longspur, Horned Lark, Short-eared Owl, Wandering Tattler, Gyrfalcon and much more.
- "Surfbird " was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 21 February 1975; sold 5 December 1975 to the Pacific Northwest Salvage Company, Inc . of Seattle, Washington; sold again in December, 1975 to Brice Industries of Fairbanks, Alaska and renamed " Helenka B " . " Helenka B " was subsequently transferred to the Maritime Administration in 1976 for disposal and sold to Wel-Aska of Valdez, Alaska.