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Bar-Tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponica
19.0516, 72.8575
Field Notes
Description:
The adult has blue-grey legs and a very long dark bill with a slight upward curve and pink at the tip. The neck, breast and belly are unbroken brick red in breeding plumage, off white in winter. The back is mottled grey
Habitat:
Seen at Maharashtra Nature Park, Mumbai.
Notes:
In Winter plumage. It makes the longest known non-stop flight of 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.
Reference Links:
Bar-tailed Godwit
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Photographed
PublishedMarch 5, 2013
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