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    The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish...
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    the similar bar-tailed Godwit, but the black-tailed godwit's longer, straighter bill and longer legs are diagnostic. Black-tailed godwits are similar...
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    female bar-tailed godwit made a flight of 29,000 km (18,000 mi), flying 11,680 kilometres (7,260 mi) of it without stopping. In 2020 a male bar-tailed godwit...
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    Sea Road Archived 3 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Jindo County Bar-tailed Godwit Updates Archived 20 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine, USGS Chikuni...
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    northern pintail Anas acuta and black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa at 5,000 m (16,000 ft) on the Khumbu Glacier. Bar-headed geese Anser indicus have been...
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    marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) is a large migratory shorebird in the family Scolopacidae. On average, it is the largest of the four species of godwit. In 1750...
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    kink rather than a smooth curve. Flying curlews may also resemble bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica) in their winter plumages; however, the latter have...
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    The Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica) is a large shorebird in the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae. It is a long distance migratory species that breeds...
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    behaviour of the sharp-tailed sandpiper, but generally its behaviour and structure are most similar to the pectoral sandpiper. Sharp-tailed sandpipers breed...
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  • Western Airlines flight suffered a bird strike at cruising altitude. Bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica Scolopacidae 6,000 metres (20,000 feet) It can reach...
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    The extent of the atrophy is not as pronounced as species like the bar-tailed godwit, probably because there are more opportunities to feed during migration...
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    because the Asian bird is much larger. It closely resembles a small bar-tailed godwit, although the dowitcher "sewing machine" feeding action and the yelping...
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    Grey-tailed tattlers are not listed as "threatened" on the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The grey-tailed tattler...
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    one of the most ancient lineages of scolopacid waders, together with the godwits which look similar but have straight bills. Curlews feed on mud or very...
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  • Scolopax lapponica – bar-tailed godwit Scolopax aegocephala – synonym of bar-tailed godwit Scolopax haemastica – Hudsonian godwit Tringa (phalaropes and...
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    slower than the bar-tailed godwits breeding in Alaska, which fatten at four times that rate. This is thought to be because the godwit cannot use refuelling...
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  • category, where Jeremy Dominguez broke Danielson's 2016 record; the Bar-tailed Godwit he had in Washington on December 29 was species #724 for the year...
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    600 mi) and shorebirds can fly up to 4,000 km (2,500 mi), although the bar-tailed godwit is capable of non-stop flights of up to 10,200 km (6,300 mi). Some...
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    plover, golden plover, lapwing, knot, sanderling, dunlin, black-tailed godwit, bar-tailed godwit, curlew, redshank and turnstone. At the end of the latest glaciation...
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    sandpipers, but are smaller than females in the knots, curlews, phalaropes and godwits. The sexes are similarly sized in the snipes, woodcock and tringine sandpipers...
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    Limosa (Godwits) Marbled godwit (L. fedoa) Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica) Bar-tailed godwit (L. lapponica) Black-tailed godwit (L. limosa)...
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    their lifecycles. These include relatively common animals such as white-tailed deer, snowshoe hare, moose, bobcat, wild turkey, and ruffed grouse, and...
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  • Russia to spend the winter on the flats, which are also frequented by bar-tailed godwit, grey plover, red knot, oystercatcher and redshank. For curlew, dunlin...
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    black-tailed godwit as well as nationally important populations of Eurasian wigeon, European golden plover, Northern lapwing, dunlin, bar-tailed godwit, Eurasian...
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    Limosa (Godwits) Marbled godwit (L. fedoa) Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica) Bar-tailed godwit (L. lapponica) Black-tailed godwit (L. limosa)...
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  • goldeneye Bar-shouldered dove Bar-tailed cuckoo-dove Bar-tailed godwit Bar-tailed lark Bar-tailed treecreeper Bar-tailed trogon Bar-throated apalis Bar-throated...
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  • flora and fauna of New Zealand: Kauri (Agathis australis), Kuaka (Bar-tailed godwit) and Mangō (Great white shark), including the merged tribe as Toroa...
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    valuable feeding ground for many birds including the migratory Eastern bar-tailed Godwit, which flies all the way from Siberia to New Zealand to escape the...
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    species breed in the Aleutian Islands. It is also very similar to the pin-tailed snipe (G. stenura) and Swinhoe's snipe (G. megala) of eastern Asia; identification...
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    mother bird can fly whilst carrying small chicks between her legs, body and tail, in her claws or on her back. This behaviour is rarely witnessed. Eurasian...
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