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Bar-tailed Godwit < Back
A Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica baueri, flies in low over the surface of the water.
It is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae, which breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World. It makes the longest non-stop flight known for any bird and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal, 11,680 kilometres (7,258 mi) along a route from Alaska to New Zealand. Seen here wintering in Australia in non breeding plummage is the largest subspecies, Tuggerah Lakes, South Eastern Australia.
Location: Cairns
Image Size: 3400 x 5100 Pixels
Photographer: Scott Douglass
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Alaska, Australia, Bar, Bar-tailed, Bird, Black-tailed, Cairns, Charadriiformes, Esplanade, Estuary, Godwit, Limosa, Mudflat, Nature, Pacific, Qld, Queensland, Seashore, Shore, Swamp, Tailed, Tidal, Wetlands, baueri, beach, black, flight, flying, laponnica, wader, wading |
Animals
-Bar-tailed Godwit
