- Near Threatened
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Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) video
A bathing bird exhibiting "Rhynchokinesis" - a system of levers in the upper mandible enabling all sandpipers and snipes-and some plovers-to manipulate small items in the bill tip and grasp items at depth in the mud without opening the rest of the bill and filling it with mud.
- Recorded 7 April 2012
- Added to IBC 45 weeks 1 day ago
- Ron Jackson
- Location Marshside RSPB Nature Reserve, Southport, Lancashire, England, Great Britain (ssp islandica).
- Duration 43 sec
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