Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
The Bar-tailed Godwit breeds on the coast and in low-lying tundra in Lapland and adjacent Russia as well as in Siberia and Alaska.
Bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica
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Length: 13 inches
Large shorebird
Long upturned bill, pink at base and dark at tip
Pale wing linings
Upper surface of wings fairly uniform ...
Bar-tailed Godwit
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Bar-tailed Godwit is easily identifiable as a godwit by its large size and large, upturned bill. In breeding plumage, males have rich chestnut-red heads and underparts, and dark wings and upperparts touched with small amounts of chestnut.
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Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica - A female Bar-tailed Godwit holds the record for the longest non-stop flight for a land bird.
Marbled Godwit, Limosa fedoa
In addition, there are two or 3 species of fossil prehistoric godwits.
Adult bar-tailed godwit probably migrate the 11000 kilometres to New Zealand from their breeding grounds in western Alaska directly over the Pacific although perhaps some travel via one or two staging areas in north eastern Asia and northern or ...
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October 2008... a bird known as the bar-tailed godwit has broken the record established for the world's longest known nonstop bird flight, according to a new study... more.
Large wader with long legs and bill. In flight easily separated from Bar-tailed Godwit by black tail with white rump and bold white wing-bar.
38 - 44 cm (15 - 17")
Black-tailed Godwit ...
Godwit, Bar-tailed Limosa lapponica Found: North America (Alaska),
Photographed by: 1, 2) Godwit, Bar-tailed Tim Bowman, US Fish and Wildlife Service 3, 4, 5) Dick Daniels in Australia
1) Breeding male 5) Bar-tailed Godwit and Dunlin ...
Most readily mistaken for the similar and more common Bar-tailed Godwits Limosa lapponica. Distinguishing features of the Black-tailed Godwit include the black tail in flight; longer, more pink, non-upturned bill; and non-streaked breast.
 See also: Godwit, Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Stilt, Flamingo
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