Species: Limosa lapponica
Bar-tailed Godwit
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Limosa
NatureServe
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
Ecology and Life History
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
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1997-12-23
Global Status Last Changed
1997-12-23
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
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)