Bar-tailed godwit
Limosa lapponica
Sandpipers
(Scolopacidae)
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A brown wader with a black tipped long red beak and dark legs. In winter plumage the belly is light and the back brown marked. In summer plumage the body is rust brown with brown/rust brown marked wings. The ♀ is often paler and more yellow than red. While flying the legs barely extend past the tail, the white on the back is arrow-shaped to halfway up the back. The upper side of wings with lighter (not white) markings and a white under surface. Searches in the mud with its long beak for bugs, often together with other waders. They roost in groups. ⇔ l. 33-42 cm A migratory bird breeding north. LA: ≈ The LIMOSA LIMOSA (Godwit) will show more leg behind the tail in flight and has no white arrow-shaped back marking. ≈ The NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS (Curlew) has a curved beak.
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2 LookAlikes (LA):
Black-tailed godwit
Whimbrel
Bar-tailed godwit
Rosse grutto
Pfuhlschnepfe
Barge rousse
Pittima minore
Aguja colipinta
Fuselo
Малый веретенник
斑尾塍鹬
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