godwits

Plump black and white oystercatchers stood side by side with elegant, almost aloof, bar-tailed godwits.

Country diary: Cromarty Firth 2011

In the sheltered shallows a few bar-tailed godwits are probing the wet sand with their long, pinkish, very slightly upturned bills.

Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk 2011

Despite their pose they looked – as only godwits can – very elegant, but the light was playing tricks with them.

Country diary: Burghead, Moray 2011

Curlews … godwits … peeps … all them little peeps …

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In contrast, most of the bar-tailed godwits had fed well and stood in a group of about 80 birds.

Country diary: Burghead, Moray 2011

There are two hundred bar-tailed godwits and five hundred knot.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Behind them are leggy gangs of godwits and low, twisting lines of dunlin, like mud splashes tossed into the air.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Dunlins come from Asia; red-necked phalaropes from Chile; arctic terns from Antarctica; and bar-tailed godwits from New Zealand.

The Flight Steve Ersinghaus 2009

Many shorebirds (e.g., sandpipers, plovers, snipe, godwits, curlews) are also dependent on water levels and the persistence of shallow wetlands.

Impacts on aquatic birds and mammals in the Arctic 2009

Though they are tangled on the shore all the godwits go at once, leaving spaces where they stood among the dunlins.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009