Snipes, Sandpipers and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) - HBW 3, p. 501
French: Barge à queue noire
German: Uferschnepfe
Spanish: Aguja Colinegra
Taxonomy: Scolopax Limosa Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Forms superspecies with L. haemastica, with which sometimes considered conspecific. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- islandica C. L. Brehm, 1831 - Iceland, Faeroes, Shetland and Lofoten Is; winters in Ireland, Britain, W France, Spain and Portugal.
- limosa (Linnaeus, 1758) - W & C Europe and Russia E to upper R Yenisey; winters in Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, and E through Middle East to W India.
- melanuroides Gould, 1846 - disjunct populations in Siberia E of R Yenisey, E Mongolia, NE China and Russian Far East; winters from India, Indochina, Taiwan and Philippines S to Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia.
- Near Threatened Enlarge map
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north goa Locality Goa, India
filmingnature 1 week ago ADDED LAST MONTH 28 sec 4.8 -
A bathing bird exhibiting "Rhynchokinesis" - a system of levers in the upper mandible enabling all sandpipers and snipes-and som Locality Marshside RSPB Nature Reserve, Southport, Lancashire, England, Great Britain (ssp islandica)
Ron Jackson 7 April 2012 48 weeks ago 43 sec 4.6 -
A juvenile bird looking up, becoming alert and flying away Locality Santoña Marsh Natural Reserve, Santoña, Cantabria, Spain (ssp limosa)
Alex García · Videoaves 31 August 2007 5 years ago 22 sec 4.6 -
An adult in breeding plumage calling and moving along a trail. Locality Dalnerechensk, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp melanuroides)
Josep del Hoyo 15 June 2009 3 years ago 38 sec 4.6 -
A juvenile bird walking on the grass and foraging Locality Santoña Marsh Natural Reserve, Santoña, Cantabria, Spain (ssp limosa)
Alex García · Videoaves 31 August 2007 5 years ago 32 sec 4.5 -
A group feeding Locality Illa de Buda, Ebro Delta, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain (ssp limosa)
Pedro Rubio 1994 10 years ago 24 sec 4.5
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Detail of Limosa by De Muy.
Locality Texel, North Holland Province, Netherlands
Guido Bohn 15 May 2010 3 years ago 4.5 -
standing on one leg
Locality Eilat, Israel
Lior Kislev 7 April 2010 1 year ago 4.5 -
in flight
Locality Salt Ponds Km 20, Eilat, Israel
Lior Kislev 15 March 2012 1 year ago 4.5 -
adult male in Laxa valley, near Akureiry.
Locality Laxá River, Mývatn-Laxá Nature Conservation Area, Norðurland eystra (Northeast) Region, Iceland (ssp islandica)
Marco Valentini 10 June 2012 45 weeks ago 4.4 -
Couple during display
Locality Blankenberge, West Flanders Province, Belgium (ssp limosa)
Marc FASOL 21 July 2009 26 weeks ago 4.4 -
male Godwit stretching
Locality South Holland Province, Netherlands
Rob Belterman 2 April 2011 2 years ago 4.4
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A bird intensively calling near its nest.
Locality Dalnerechensk, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia
(ssp melanuroides)
Josep del Hoyo 15 June 2009 3 years ago 4.5 -
Challenge or courtship calls Locality Rajasthan, India
(ssp limosa)
RAM GOPAL SONI 3 February 2010 3 years ago 4 -
Single sweet whistle, probably alarm call Locality Rajasthan, India
(ssp limosa)
RAM GOPAL SONI 3 February 2010 3 years ago 3.5 -
Display calls of a captive male Locality Pensthorpe Waterfowl Park, Fakenham, Norfolk, England, Great Britain
(ssp probably limosa)
Stuart Fisher 2 May 2001 4 years ago 3
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