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Bar-tailed Godwit

Birds

The bar-tailed godwit is a large, strongly migratory wading bird in the family Scolopacidae, feeding on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries and identifiable by its red breeding plumage, long legs and long upturned bill. It breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra from Scandinavia to Alaska and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical Australia and New Zealand; the Alaska-to-New-Zealand crossing made by its baueri subspecies, over 29,000 kilometres round trip, is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird and the longest journey without feeding made by any animal. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Insectivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Comparison
NatureServe Rank
G4 Apparently Secure 4
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 5
Scientific Name
Limosa lapponica 3
Conservation Status
Near Threatened 2
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Scolopacidae, Taxa
Source Bar-tailed Godwit (Wikidata)

In Biome

Tundra, Biomes
Source Bar-tailed godwit (Wikipedia)

In Ecosystem

Wadden Sea, Ecosystems
Source Bar-tailed godwit (Wikipedia)
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Found In

Australia

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Belgium

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Brazil

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Denmark

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Djibouti

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Eritrea

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France

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Ireland

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Kenya

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Mozambique

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New Zealand

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North America

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Norway

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Poland

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Russia

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South Africa

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Spain

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Sweden

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Tanzania

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Venezuela

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Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. Bar-tailed godwit (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    Bar-tailed godwits breed on Arctic coasts and tundra from Scandinavia to Alaska, and overwinter on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of Australia and New Zealand. The migration of the subspecies Limosa lapponica baueri across the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to New Zealand is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird, and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal. The round-trip migration for this subspecies is over 29,000 km (18,020 mi).
  • Infobox: status
    NT
  • In Ecosystem: Wadden Sea, Food and feeding
    In another study in the Wadden Sea, females primarily ate lugworms and ragworms while males relied almost exclusively on mud shrimps.
  • In Biome: Tundra, Habitat: Tundra
    Bar-tailed godwits breed on Arctic coasts and tundra from Scandinavia to Alaska
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3. Bar-tailed Godwit (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q18864 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): near threatened.
  • Child Taxon Of: Scolopacidae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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4. NatureServe Explorer: Limosa lapponica
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)
Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "G4"
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5. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Aves
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 32
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 32
"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":"Chordata","class":"Aves","order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Aves","language":"ES"},{"name":"Birds","language":"EN"},{"name":"Oiseaux","language":"FR"},{"name":"鸟纲","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]
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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Limosa
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 1015
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 1015
"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"
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