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Black-tailed godwit

Limosa limosa Islandica

Classified as near threatened worldwide. However numbers are vastly increasing in Iceland. They migrate in winter, mainly to Britain. In Europe, black-tailed godwits are only hunted in France, with the annual total killed estimated at 6,000 to 8,000 birds.

 

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Uploaded on July 30, 2018
Taken on July 17, 2018