The bar-tailed godwit is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries. It has distinctive red breeding
Bar tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponica 2 Taren Point
In flight, showing tail barring
Banding L. l. baueri at Miranda Shorebird Centre, New Zealand
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrate animals constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chamb
Bar-tailed godwit
…plumage, New South Wales, Australia Conservation status Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae Genus: Limosa Species: L. lapponica Binomial name Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) Range map; red = breeding…
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