Godwit
From LoveToKnow 1911
GODWIT, a word of unknown origin, the name commonly applied to a marsh-bird in great repute, when fattened, for the table, and formerly abundant in the fens of Norfolk, the Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire.
Godwits
The godwits are a group of large, long-billed, long-legged and strongly migratory wading birds of the genus Limosa. They form large flocks on coasts and estuaries in winter.
Godwit
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see shore bird.
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Shore Bird - common name for members of the large order Charadriiformes, which includes birds found on coasts and beaches throughout the world.
Marbled Godwit
This report is one in a series of literature syntheses on North American grassland birds. The need for these reports was identified by the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV), a part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
Marbled Godwit Photos
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Marbled Godwit
Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus)
Status Rare transient. The species was first recorded for Nova Scotia on 15 April 1915 by Louis B. Bishop who received a specimen from taxidermist Robert P.
Marbled Godwit
Last updated 3/19/96 Marbled Godwit are common spring migrants (last half of March and April) with a few birds wintering on the UTC. An even smaller number stay over the summer.
Marbled godwit Limosa fedoa
Identification Tips:
Length: 16 inches
Very large, long-legged, long-necked shorebird
Very long, slightly recurved bill
Pink-based black-tipped bill
Cinnamon wing linings
Sexes similar ...
The Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) nests in south central Canada and the north central United States. It is a species of the high plains grasslands of those regions during the summer months. In winter it may be found along both coasts.
Godwits from the Icelandic population winter mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and the Netherlands, though some fly on to Spain, Portugal and perhaps Morocco.
Godwit along with other migrants start arriving here about mid-September and disperse throughout the country including the Chatham Islands. They flock in a few favoured places, including the Firth of Thames.
Godwits' eggs are vulnerable. On one occasion at a Dutch reserve some 30 birds were in a state of alarm, fluttering with dangling legs low over the ground. A stoat which had removed three eggs was the enemy.
Marbled Godwit, La Jolla Shores Beach, La Jolla, California
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
MARBLED GODWIT FACTS ...
Marbled Godwit - Limosa fedoa
Wilson's Snipe - Gallinago delicata
Hudsonian Godwit Behaviour
No observations regarding Hudsonian Godwit behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Marbled Godwits migrate through North America in April and early May, usually covering medium to short distances. Fall migration is protracted, lasting from late June into early November.
HUDSONIAN GODWIT, Limosa hudsonica, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 426;vol. v. p. 592.
Male, 15 3/4, 28. Female, 16 3/4, 29.
Bar-tailed godwit
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The Nene Washes is one of the most important wetland sites in the UK ...
Blacktailed Godwit
Bird Family :
Tringinae - Godwits, curlews, shanks, sandpipers, tattlers, turnstones, dowitchers, knots,stints, dunlin, ruff, & phalaropes ...
Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica)
Chilean name: Zarapito pico recto ...
Black-tailed Godwit
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves (Birds) Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) is a widespread winter visitor in India. Size: 38-44 cm ...
Black-tailed Godwit - profile
Scientific name: Limosa limosa
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description ...
Diet The marbled godwit forages for food by probing in shallow water and soft mud for aquatic insects and mollusks. It also catches grasshoppers and other insects in grassy areas.
Hudsonian Godwit
(Limosa haemastica)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2003
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Godwit, Bar-tailed Limosa lapponica Found: North America(Alaska), Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia
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) ...
Marbled Godwit
Summer Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
American Goldfinch
Summer Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa. Uncommon in spring and fall, rare in winter, and occasional in late summer in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, occasional in spring and fall. Found in pastures, pools, and on mudflats. MODERATE CONSERVATION CONCERN ...
Hudsonian Godwit (40): A very remarkable sighting of a migrating flock southbound late in the afternoon low over the water over Nantucket Shoals Next landfall Argentina?
Ruddy Turnstone (1): Circling the boat along the shelf edge.
Marbled Godwit close up
6. Sanderlings, Ocean Beach, SF
8. Wild Turkeys on a Marin hillside. They are apparently not native but they love those acorns. There haver been arguments made that turkeys were ...
Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, 30 Jul
Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa: Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, Newport Beach, CA, 01 Jan ...
Bar Tailed Godwit standing in ocean
Barber Perch, Caesioperca rasor (Richardson, 1839)
Barcheek Trevally, Carangoides plagiotaenia (Bleeker, 1857)
Bare-backed Fruit-bat
Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat
Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat
Barn Owl ...
Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Wood calamint (Clinopodium menthifolium)
Field cow-wheat (Melampyrum arvense)
Greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula)
Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) ...
Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria)
Red-Necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) ...
They are one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills (Thomas, 2004). In Europe "Curlew" usually refers to one species, the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata.
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.
The curlew makes a nonstop flight between breeding grounds. Some
of the godwits and ibises are called curlews.
Picture Curlews
Curlews are of the family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes.
The bristle thighed curlew summers and nests in Alaska and winters on South Pacific islands some of the godwits and ibses are called curlews .
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We saw oystercatchers, black backed gulls, white fronted herons, godwits, terns and Ta Da , finally a group of Wrybills; this is the only bird in the world with a natural curved bill to the right! They come to NZ to summer, very rare seabird.
 See also: Sandpiper, Curlew, Snipe, Bar-tailed godwit, Stilt
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