In the sheltered shallows a few bar-tailed godwits are probing the wet sand with their long, pinkish, very slightly upturned bills. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Plump black and white oystercatchers stood side by side with elegant, almost aloof, bar-tailed godwits. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In contrast, most of the bar-tailed godwits had fed well and stood in a group of about 80 birds. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In 2007, an even more astonishing record was established by a bar-tailed godwit. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)
There are also ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula, grey plover Pluvialis squatarola, knot Calidris canutus, redshankTringa totanus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica among many other species. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There are two hundred bar-tailed godwits and five hundred knot. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
Dunlins come from Asia; red-necked phalaropes from Chile; arctic terns from Antarctica; and bar-tailed godwits from New Zealand. ❋ Steve Ersinghaus (2009)
Okarito Lagoon is the largest estuarine lagoon on the South Island's west coast and is an important habitat for wading birds, including South Island pied oystercatcher Haematopus sp., pied stilt and the migratory bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica and knot Calidris sp. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Several migratory wader species are regular visitors to the island, principally are double-banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus, eastern golden plover Pluvialis dominica, turnstone Arenaria interpres, whimbrel Numenius phaeopus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Other species with an Afromontane distribution include bar-tailed trogon (Apaloderma vittatum), scarce swift (Schoutedenapus myioptilus), orange thrush (Zoothera gurneyi) and African black swift (Apus barbatus sladeniae). ❋ Unknown (2008)
The most abundant are dunlin (Calidris alpina), bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and redshank (Tringa totanus) all with populations of over 100,000 birds. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yew wants a .. well, yew wantz a bar-tailed godwit. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One other dove should perhaps be mentioned among the common birds of the Himalayas, namely, the bar-tailed cuckoo-dove (_Macropygia tusalia_). ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
Take the bar-tailed falcon back to Montemar, and keep him for my sake. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Among them is the sappho comet, or bar-tailed humming-bird. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
She had given it the name by which it is chiefly known -- the Sappho comet, or bar-tailed humming-bird. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
The Lockheed Stratoliner concept features the wings of the bar-tailed godwit. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In intimate portraits of birds, like tiny sandpipers and the "flying boxcar" of a bar-tailed godwit, and in personal anecdotes of his birding adventures, Mr. Cross, 85, describes how he spent the first half of his life oblivious to birds only to become one of their most ardent photographers and advocates in the second half. ❋ By THOMAS LIN (2011)
The bar-tailed godwit flies 6,800 miles each year from Alaska to New Zealand without food, water or rest in what Mr. Cross calls "one of nature's miracles." ❋ By THOMAS LIN (2011)
