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	Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa
		Young godwits start flying in early June and although some linger on the washes a few weeks, others leave accompanied by their parents within a few hours of being able to fly.
		During a night watch, while the male godwits were incubating, it was noted that the females stood sleeping on the poles with their bills tucked backwards in their mantles.
		Icelandic godwits are soon on the move again with the main exodus from their lonely breeding grounds in August.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/black-tailed-godwit.htm (988 words)

	Godwit - 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.
		Under the name godwit two perfectly distinct species of British birds were included, but that which seems to have been especially prized is known to modern ornithologists as the fl-tailed godwit, Limosa aegocephala, formerly called, from its loud cry, a yarwhelp,' shrieker or barker, in the districts it inhabited.
		The godwits belong to the group Limicolae, and are about as big as a tame pigeon, but possess long legs, and a long bill with a slight upward turn.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Godwit (637 words)

	Bar-tailed Godwit
		This is the non-breeding plumage of the Bar-tailed Godwit and is the main phase seen in Australia.
		The Bar-tailed Godwit is often difficult to distinguish from the similar Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa.
		The Bar-tailed Godwit is a non-breeding migrant in Australia.
	www.austmus.gov.au /factsheets/godwit.htm (366 words)

	Bar-tailed Godwit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica, is a large shorebird.
		It is a relatively short-legged member of the godwit genus.
		They are distinguished from Black-tailed Godwit by their barred, not fl, tail, and lack of white wingbars.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Bar-tailed_Godwit.html (232 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica, is a large shorebird from the family Scolopacidae.
		They are distinguished from Black-tailed Godwit by their barred, rather than wholly fl, tails and a lack of white wing bars.
		The Bar-tailed Godwit is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bar-tailed_Godwit (383 words)

	Shorebird research in New Zealand: study species
		The Bar-tailed Godwit is one of the largest wading birds on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF), and is readily distinguished by its long, slightly upcurved bill, browny, rather than grey, non-breeding plumage, and variable barring on its lower back and rump.
		Godwits eat predominantly marine polychaete worms, using their long bills to probe deep into muddy or soft sandy sediments to extract buried prey.
		Godwits are not the easiest bird to study, as they often swallow their prey before removing their bill from the sediment.
	www.nzshorebirds.com /species.html (2561 words)

	Birds in Backyards - Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) Fact sheet
		This is the non-breeding plumage of the Bar-tailed Godwit and is the main phase seen in Australia.
		The Bar-tailed Godwit is often difficult to distinguish from the similar Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa.
		The Bar-tailed Godwit is a non-breeding migrant in Australia.
	www.birdsinbackyards.net /finder/display.cfm?id=89 (351 words)

	The bar-tailed godwit's nonstop to New Zealand, Alaska Science Forum
		If the bar-tailed godwit is flying the length of the Pacific nonstop, its migration is unrivaled by even the arctic tern, said Bob Gill, who studies shorebirds at the USGS Science Center in Anchorage.
		The godwits have a range that long-distance jets would envy, and they also seem to be able to predict the weather.
		Gill and other biologists think most of the 120,000 to 150,000 bar-tailed godwits that leave Alaska are flying straight to New Zealand or eastern Australia because there are few records of birds marked with leg bands anywhere on Asia during the return trip in the fall.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF17/1742.html (719 words)

	Bar-tailed Godwit - Limosa lapponica - Barge rousse
		Bar-tailed Godwit adult male in winter lacks reddish tones, and it is grey with white edges on upperparts, and white on underparts.
		Bar-tailed Godwit is difficult to distinguish from the Black-tailed Godwit (limosa limosa).
		Protection / threats : Bar-tailed Godwits are vulnerable to the severity of the weather, habitat loss in coastal places, and hunting in some parts of their migration.
	www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/charadriiformes/bar-tailed.godwit.html (1078 words)

	A Notable Movement of Godwits in the Yukon, Spring 1999
		Finally, one of the godwits began to bathe and eventually stretched its wings to display whitish underwings, and spread its tail which was white with dark brown barring.
		In flight the tips of their toes just barely extended past their tails which was quite different from the flock of 23 Hudsonian Godwits we observed flying overhead at Lewes Marsh on May 13 (their feet extended fully beyond their tails).
		The godwit with the reddish chin departed at dusk on May 26 and was not seen again.
	www.yukonweb.com /community/ybc/godwit.html (964 words)

	Bar-tailed Godwit at San Gregorio
		The bird was slightly smaller than adjacent Marbled Godwits, with a paler face, and underparts and larger pale-buff spots on the upperparts.
		The upperparts were a darker brown than on Marbled Godwit, with larger, paler notches in the tertials, coverts, and scapulars.
		There are about 20 previous accepted Bar-tailed Godwit records for California of which I have seen six: one at Bolinas Lagoon in 1973, one at Pescadero Marsh in 1989, one in Albany in 1991, one at Abbott’s Lagoon in 1992, one at Palo Alto Baylands in 1994, and another at Abbott’s Lagoon in 1995.
	fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us /~jmorlan/Btgo.htm (726 words)

	Tetrapod Zoology : The godwits' many bills
		In summer, a Black-tailed godwit is reddish brown with a mottled back, and with dark bars on its whitish belly and flanks, but in winter it is grey and uniform.
		A 'barred' tail is one of those distinctive morphological details that you can see scattered around in various unrelated species: amongst Old World waders it's also present in dowitchers, curlews, shanks, the Green sandpiper Tringa ochropus, the Solitary sandpiper T.
		Bjorkland (1994) found godwits to be closer to scolopacines (woodcocks and snipes) than to curlews or to Calidris waders (stints, sandpipers and dunlin) based on their sharing characters of the interorbital septum and sternum, while Chu (1995) found godwits to form a clade with dowitchers.
	scienceblogs.com /tetrapodzoology/2007/01/the_godwits_many_bills.php (2387 words)

	All About Birds
		Nests of the Marbled Godwit are not easily found, as these birds do not readily flush off of their eggs.
		The Marbled Godwit was long regarded as showing no noticeable geographic variation until measurements of birds breeding in Alaska showed these populations to have shorter wings and legs than Great Plains godwits.
		Husonian Godwit smaller, has shorter bill, is colored deep reddish or gray, has fl tail, white rump, fl underwings, and fl-and-white pattern in wings.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Marbled_Godwit_dtl.html (328 words)

	RTÉ Radio One, Mooney Goes Wild, Guide to Waders
		Its rump and tail form a large pale triangle visible in flight.
		In flight the have a broad fl band on the end of a white tail and bright white stripes on the wings.
		Similar to the Black-tailed Godwit in size and appearance on the ground but is more streaked on the back.
	www.rte.ie /radio/mooneygoeswild/waders/birds.html (1065 words)

	Chicks, left-behind, migrate on-their own; Fingerprints last almost forever - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Take the bar-tailed godwit, a wading bird that migrates from the sub Arctic shores of the Bering Sea to the shores of Australia and New Zealand — non-stop 6,800 miles — and back again, six months later.
		She leaps into the air, joins a group of other juvenile godwits likewise taking off and points her long, slightly scooped bill south, the tailwind pushing her the way she wants to go.
		Godwits' long, slightly scooped bills evolved for fast, deep stabbing into wet mud in search of buried prey, such as clams.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2006-12-11-chicks-fingerprints_x.htm (1195 words)

	BirdForum - Swimming Bar-tailed Godwit?!?!
		Saw bartailed godwit swim for a short distance...so it is possible.
		Godwits have long legs, and I have seen them 'Wading' through Water, which makes them look they are swimming.
		It is a bit hard to say, how deep the water was (it's constantly being pumped out to lay open wader-friendly beaches, and the rain fills it up at a more or less equal rate, haha), could actually have been sufficiently shallow for the bird to wade after all.
	www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=66148 (497 words)

	Bar-tailed godwit goes the distance
		After a summer of breeding and feeding on Alaska's riches, the godwit known as E7 began a 7,200-mile nonstop flight to New Zealand, the equivalent of a flight from San Francisco to New York, and then back to San Francisco again.
		And pausing on the ocean wouldn't do a godwit much good anywayadapted to life on the shore, the birds can't feed on the water, or swim for a long time.
		How E7 and other godwits find their way from Alaska to the tip of New Zealand is a mystery to scientists.
	alaskareport.com /news1007/z46778_godwit.htm (722 words)

	SitNews - The bar-tailed godwit's nonstop to New Zealand by Ned Rozell
		If the bar-tailed godwit is flying the length of the Pacific nonstop, its migration is unrivaled by even the arctic tern, said Bob Gill, who studies shorebirds at the USGS Science Center in Anchorage.
		The godwits have a range that long-distance jets would envy, and they also seem to be able to predict the weather.
		This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community.
	www.sitnews.us /0305news/031905/031905_ak_science.html (715 words)

	Bar-tailed Godwit
		Bar-tailed Godwits are quite large (37 to 45 cm) waders, with females being bigger than males.
		The Bar-tailed Godwit is often difficult to distinguish from the similar Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa.
		The Bar-tailed Godwit is a non-breeding migrant in Australia.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/godwit.htm (366 words)

	Wildlife - Bar-tailed Godwit
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		Superficially similar in outline to fl-tailed godwit but with more dumpy appearance.
		Easily told in flight in all plumages by uniformly dark wings and white rump grading to narrow-barred tail.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/wildlife/birds_bar-tailed_godwit.html (200 words)

	New York State Rarities: Bar-tailed Godwit
		The godwit was still in place, feeding actively in the thigh deep water, probing for worms or small shellfish which it capture with the tip of its bill and then toss back into its mouth.
		The tail was barred rather than fl, confirming that this was not a basic-plumaged Black-tailed Godwit nor a Hudsonian Godwit.
		Although Bar-tailed Godwits are annual (or close to) along the Atlantic coast of North America, the Mecox bird breaks a long drought for New York State.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /NYBarTailGodwit.html (908 words)

	Spluch: Bar-tailed godwit achieves world's longest non-stop flight
		Scientists have recently confirmed on that a shy, quiet New Zealand bird with a full stomach and an urge to have sex in a cold climate has achieved the world's longest recorded non-stop flight - thanks to scientific funding to track the possible spread of the H5N1 virus.
		The bar-tailed godwit, marked as E7, took off from Piako in the Firth of Thames at midnight on March 17.
		Flying at an average speed of 56 km/hr and at an altitude of 2,000 meters for a week, the group of 4 bar-tailed godwits weigh only about 300 grams each, which was nearly half of its initial weight prior the long distance flight.
	spluch.blogspot.com /2007/04/bar-tailed-godwit-achieves-worlds.html (243 words)

	PRBO Conservation Science: Bar-tailed Godwit
		PRBO Home::Science::Wetlands Ecology Division::Pacific Shorebird Migration Project::Bar-tailed Godwit
		Under the US Shorebird Conservation Plan, they are a species of High Concern mainly due to their low population size, threats to their non-breeding grounds (especially at migratory stopover sites in Asia), and their relatively restricted breeding distribution within the United States.
		Godwits marked in western Alaska carry alpha-numeric bands (fl with white letters) with letters and numbers stamped on them.
	www.prbo.org /cms/425 (549 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Godwits' epic journey tracked
		Seabirds feed and rest on their long journeys, swifts feed whilst in flight; but for the godwits, says Dr Battley, it is essentially a non-eating, non-drinking flight.
		But one thing the godwits are probably not is a potential carrier of avian influenza, scientists believe.
		Four of the tagged godwits have now left Asia for the 5,000km (3,000 mile) journey to their breeding grounds in Alaska.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/6646091.stm (801 words)

	USGS Alaska Science Center Bar-tailed Godwit Updates
		Godwit “E7” (represented by the red line and dot in the map) completed an incredible non-stop migration flight between Alaska and New Zealand in early September (see recent movements below).
		The last satellite-tagged godwit in Alaska (E8) departed on 7 October and by 16 October E8 was approaching New Caledonia, however its transmitter went off the air at that time.
		E7 made history by becoming the first godwit ever to be tracked during both north- and south-bound migrations.
	abscweb.wr.usgs.gov /science/biology/shorebirds/barg_updates.html (657 words)

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		This Bar-tailed Godwit of the nominate race (Limosa lapponica lapponica) was digiscoped with a Nikon Coolpix 995 through a Bushnell Spacemaster telescope w/20X eyepiece.
		It was very late in the day and light levels were low, so these shots were taken at a very slow shutter speed (1/15th and 1/30th) and are rather blurry.
		This is yet another Bar-tailed Godwit seen and photographed on South Beach in Chatham on 5 June 2004.
	home.comcast.net /~odenews/BarTailed0504.htm (220 words)

	Bar-tailed Godwit - Whatbird.com
		Bar-tailed Godwit: Large shorebird with long, upcurved bill, scaled, dark brown upperparts and plain, pale red-brown underparts.
		Bar-tailed Godwit: Two subspecies occur in North America: 1) Baueri breeds in Alaska and migrates along Pacific coast; 2) European lapponica is a rare migrant along Atlantic coast; breeds on lowland tundra, but sometimes in upland areas with trees.
		Marbled Godwit is larger and lacks red-brown tones.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/450/target.aspx (531 words)

	Marbled godwit
		The Hudsonian Godwit and the Accidental Black Tailed Godwit has a white wing stripe and a white tail with a fl terminal band.
		The Accidental Bar Tailed Godwit is smaller, with unbarred underparts, white wing linings, and a shorter bill that is not so extensively pink based.
		Hudsonian, Black Tailed, and Bar Tailed Godwits are grayer in basic plumage and rustier in alternate plumage.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/birding/80655/2 (223 words)

	Moonglow godwit
		The godwit was initially discovered on a small pickleweed-covered islet at high tide at Elkhorn Slough, seen from the easternmost dike of the Moonglow Dairy ponds complex, by Don Roberson and Rita Carratello.
		It was identified as a Bar-tailed because of the lack of cinnamon color, its obviously smaller size, a barred tail and rump, a prominent white supercilium, a rather long primary projection, primary tips extended well beyond the tail, and the impression it was slightly short-legged.
		Further, the sides and flanks were barred, which seems odd for this species, and there was a grayish wash and mottling across the breast.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/MGgodwit.html (1366 words)

	A YEAR ON THE WING - an online documentary \| LEARNING & DOING
		The Godwit breeds in the northern arctic tundra of both Siberia and Alaska.
		There appear to be two separate populations of Bar-tailed Godwits, one breeds in Alaska and spends the southern summer in eastern Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand; the other breeds in north central Siberia and migrates to Broome in north west Australia.
		In contrast to the mottled grey upper parts of the body, the head breast and belly of the male Bar-tailed Godwit are a vivid red brown colour during breeding season.
	www.abc.net.au /wing/community/learningbirdinfo.htm (1855 words)

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