#godwits

[blogbirdfeather]

Black-tailed Godwit - Maçarico-de-bico-direito (Limosa limosa)

Vila Franca de Xira/Portugal (21/05/2026)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR with Nikon AF-S TC-14E III]

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

When the bar-tailed godwit prepares for a long trip, they pack light! In the weeks prior to their 11,000 km (6,800 mile) migration, adults will shrink their liver, kidneys, and digestive tract by up to 25% to make room for the large amounts of fat that will sustain it through the non-stop voyage.

(Image: A bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) by Guillaume Labeyrie)

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Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)

[wingedjewels]

Marbled Godwit ( Limosa fedoa ) #1 by Kip Hutchison Via Flickr: Early morning after sunrise .... Barred above and below in brown, white, and cinnamon during the breeding season. They look similar during the nonbreeding season, but have unbarred cinnamon-washed underparts. In flight, note the cinnamon underwings year-round. The bill is bicolored: black at the tip and orange at the base during breeding or pink during the nonbreeding season. Probes into sand or mud with its long bill for aquatic invertebrates. Sometimes walks while probing or takes a few steps before burying its bill into the mud. Social outside of the breeding season; forages in groups and also with Willets, Whimbrels, and Long-billed Curlews.

[newbirder]

Willets, terns, gulls, and godwits flock to the sand at Bald Point State Park in the Florida Panhandle.

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Marbled Godwit

Photo: Becky Matsubara

"This big cinnamon-colored sandpiper inhabits the northern Great Plains in summer. When it leaves the prairies, the Marbled Godwit goes to coastal regions and becomes quite gregarious. Large flocks roost together in the salt meadows at high tide, or stand together in shallow water above the flats, probing deeply in the mud with their long bills."

- Audubon Field Guide

[meklarian]

Marbled Godwits Bolsa Chica Ecological Preserve Huntington Beach, California, USA July, 2019

(more godwits here, more shorebirds here)

[mirroreclipse]

Zine piece I did for Polar Lights! This was my first time participating in a zine and I'm very happy with how it turned out :>

Please go and support the zine, all proceeds go to the Arctic Research Foundation~