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Bar-tailed Godwit

Limosa lapponica

Near Threatened (IUCN Red List)Sandpipers and Allies
Bar-tailed Godwit, photographed by No-longer-here

Photo: No-longer-here · Pixabay · Pixabay Content License (licence)

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About the Bar-tailed Godwit

Gangly wader with a long bicolored bill. Breeding plumage is dark brick-red below (male) or pale orangey (female); nonbreeding plumage is overall gray-brown with white belly; compare to Black-tailed Godwit. In flight shows rather plain upperwings with only a faint whitish wing stripe; white rump and finely barred tail. Mainly coastal away from tundra breeding grounds. Often in flocks feeding on mudflats and in brackish coastal lagoons, roosting in adjacent freshwater habitats. Feeds by probing its long bill into the mud.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 167 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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