Bar-tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponica
Near ThreatenedThe Bar-tailed Godwit is a shorebird of East Asian flyways, northern breeding grounds, and Indo-Pacific wintering coasts. It uses its bill, legs, and alert flight to feed on invertebrates, seeds, or small aquatic prey along coasts, mudflats, rivers, lakes, grasslands, or open ground; many shorebirds make impressive seasonal movements between breeding and non-breeding areas.
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Group
- Shorebirds
- Range
- Bar-tailed Godwit Range — Resident or seasonal range in East Asian flyways, northern breeding grounds, and Indo-Pacific wintering coasts
- Population
- ≈ 900K–1.2M