Species: Limosa lapponica

Bar-tailed Godwit
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Aves

    Order

    Charadriiformes

    Family

    Scolopacidae

    Genus

    Limosa

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Fuselo - Picopando Cola Barrada - barge rousse
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Shorebirds
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae - Limosa
    Short General Description
    A large shorebird (godwit).
    Migration
    false - false - true - Nesting birds from Alaska probably winter in southeastern Asia and on South Pacific islands (Johnson and Herter 1989). Adults begin fall migration before juveniles, which usually depart nesting areas shortly after mid-August.
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    Reproduction Comments
    Clutch size usually 4. Incubation 20-21 days, by both sexes (female at night). Young tended by both parents or by male only (Johnson and Herter 1989).
    Length
    41
    Weight
    376
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1997-12-23
    Global Status Last Changed
    1997-12-23
    Other Status

    LC - Least concern

    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDING: just inland from the coasts across northern and western Alaska (east to Sagavanirktok River), northern Scandinavia, across northern Russia and northern Siberia to Chukotski Peninsula and northern Anadyrland. NON-BREEDING: Eurasia, Africa, Indian Ocean islands, southeastern Asia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand (AOU 1983, Johnson and Herter 1989). MIGRATION: through Hawaiian, Aleutian, and Pribilof Islands, along Bering Sea coast of Alaska Peninsula, through Europe and Pacific (AOU 1983). Lagoons along north shore of Alaska Peninsula are important fall staging areas (see Johnson and Herter 1989).
    Global Range Code
    H
    Global Range Description
    >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)
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