Bar-tailed godwit 6534-3
Sandwich, Kent.
This beautiful wader has been feeding at the scrape for the last ten days or so.
The bar-tailed godwit is a long-billed, long-legged wading bird which visits UK shores for the winter. Most usually seen in its grey-brown winter plumage, birds in spring may show their full rich chestnut breeding plumage. In flight it shows a white patch stretching from the rump up the back, narrowing to a point. It breeds in the Arctic of Scandinavia and Siberia and hundreds of thousands of them pass through the UK, on their way further south, or stop off here for the winter.
Length:37-39cm
Wingspan:70-80cm
Weight:230-450g
Population:
UK wintering:41,000 birds
Read more at www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
Bar-tailed godwit 6534-3
Sandwich, Kent.
This beautiful wader has been feeding at the scrape for the last ten days or so.
The bar-tailed godwit is a long-billed, long-legged wading bird which visits UK shores for the winter. Most usually seen in its grey-brown winter plumage, birds in spring may show their full rich chestnut breeding plumage. In flight it shows a white patch stretching from the rump up the back, narrowing to a point. It breeds in the Arctic of Scandinavia and Siberia and hundreds of thousands of them pass through the UK, on their way further south, or stop off here for the winter.
Length:37-39cm
Wingspan:70-80cm
Weight:230-450g
Population:
UK wintering:41,000 birds
Read more at www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...