Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)

Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica) - HBW 3, p. 501

French: Barge hudsonienne German: Hudsonschnepfe Spanish: Aguja Café

Taxonomy: Scolopax Hæmastica Linnaeus, 1758, Hudson Bay.
Forms superspecies with L. limosa, of which sometimes considered a subspecies. Monotypic.

Distribution: Locally from NW & S Alaska to Hudson Bay. Winters on Atlantic coast of S South America; also Chiloé I, SC Chile.