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BAR-TAILED GODWIT FACTS |
Description
Upper body parts dark-brown, underparts grey-white, feathers with light brown edges. Rump white and tail with dark grey-brown stripes. Bill long with two colours: base half pink and tip brown. Body up to 45 cm long.
Bar-tailed Godwits migrate to the northern hemisphere after summer to breed, returning in late August. They eat worms, molluscs and arthropods as well as some plant material, preferring to forage at the edge of water and in shallow water.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Coastal mudflats, rare on inland lakes.
Food
Carnivore
Range
Eastern and north-western mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Charadriiformes | | Family: | Scolopacidae | | Genus: | Limosa | | Species: | lapponica | | Common Name: | Bar-tailed Godwit |
Relatives in same Genus
Hudsonian Godwit (L. haemastica)
Black-tailed Godwit (L. limosa)
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