Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 (1/1000th sec at f11. Click image for larger version. © David Hastings)  (1/640th sec at f13. Click image for larger version. © David Hastings) DescriptionL: 37 - 42 cm; WS: 63 - 74 cm The Bar-tailed Godwit is a long-billed, long-legged wading bird. It is about the same size as the Black-tailed Godwit, but has shorter legs and usually a clearly upcurved bill. In summer the male has rufous-red underparts, which are unbarred. It lacks white wing bars. Bar-tailed Godwits spend the winter on coasts in western Europe and west Africa, migrating northwards in May and southwards in August. Breeding habitat is open tundra and taiga bogs in northern Scandinavia and Russia. It has Amber status on the UK list. Around 40000 birds spend the winter in the British Isles Sightings
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