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Limosa
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Godwits are a group of four large, long-billed, long-legged and strongly migratory waders of the bird genus Limosa. Their long bills allow them to probe deeply in the sand for aquatic worms and molluscs. In their winter range, they flock together where food is plentiful. They frequent tidal shorelines, breeding in northern climates in summer and migrating south in winter. A female bar-tailed godwit made a flight of 29,000 km (18,000 mi), flying of it without stopping. In 2020 a male bar-tailed godwit flew about non-stop in its migration from Alaska to New Zealand, previously a record
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Limosa is a genus of birds within the family Scolopacidae. It belongs to the order Charadriiformes, class Aves, and phylum Chordata. The genus was described by Brisson in 1760 and is currently accepted as a valid taxon. Its habitats include marine and freshwater environments.
Records of this genus are held by institutions such as CM, UF, CLO, UCLA, and UAM. Specimens have been documented in the United States, Estados Unidos De America, Indonesia, Sweden, and Canada. The taxon has been described in sources including the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Species
オグロシギ属
Limosa
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyScolopacidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 29
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Collections
- CM, UF, CLO, UCLA, UAM, MADUG-UG
- Recorded in
- United States, Estados Unidos De America, Indonesia, [Rep. Of Ireland], Sweden, Canada, India, Argentina
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Scolopacidae
- Image
- Black-tailed Godwit Uferschnepfe.jpg
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- Commons category
- Limosa
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Limosa
- topic's main category
- Category:Limosa
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- Limosa
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Fossil species
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- General sources
Godwits are a group of four large, long-billed, long-legged and strongly migratory waders of the bird genus Limosa. Their long bills allow them to probe deeply in the sand for aquatic worms and molluscs. In their winter range, they flock together where food is plentiful. They frequent tidal shorelines, breeding in northern climates in summer and migrating south in winter. A female bar-tailed godwit made a flight of 29,000 km (18,000 mi), flying of it without stopping. In 2020 a male bar-tailed godwit flew about non-stop in its migration from Alaska to New Zealand, previously a record for avian non-stop flight. In October 2022, a 5 month old, male bar-tailed godwit was tracked from Alaska to Tasmania, a trip that took 11 days, and recorded a non-stop flight of .
The godwits can be distinguished from the curlews by their straight or slightly upturned bills, and from the dowitchers by their longer legs. The winter plumages are fairly drab, but three species have reddish underparts when breeding. The females are appreciably larger than the males.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Limosa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.