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Black tailed Godwit - Limosa Limosa
These large wading birds are a Schedule 1 species. In summer, they have bright orangey-brown chests and bellies, but in winter they're more greyish-brown.
Their most distinctive features are their long beaks and legs, and the black and white stripes on their wings. Female black-tailed godwits are bigger and heavier than the males, with a noticeably longer beak (which helps the sexes to avoid competing for food with each other).
They're very similar to bar-tailed godwits, which breed in the Arctic. Black-tailed godwits have longer legs, and bar-tailed godwits don't have striped wings. As the names suggest, the tail patterns are different, too.
Black-tailed godwits are much more likely to be found on inland wetlands than the more coastal bar-tailed godwit. They migrate in flocks to western Europe, Africa, south Asia and Australia. Although this species occurs in Ireland and Great Britain all year-round, they are not the same birds. The breeding birds depart in autumn, but are replaced in winter by the larger Icelandic race. These birds occasionally appear in the Aleutian Islands and, rarely, on the Atlantic coast of North America.
There is an estimated global population of between 634,000 and 805,000 birds and estimated range of 7,180,000 square kilometres (2,770,000 sq mi). In 2006 BirdLife International classified this species as Near Threatened due to a decline in numbers of around 25% in the previous 15 years. It is also among the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
In Europe, black-tailed godwits are only hunted in France, with the annual total killed estimated at 6,000 to 8,000 birds. This puts additional pressure on the western European population, and the European Commission has a management plan in place for the species in its member states.
In England, black-tailed godwits were formerly much prized for the table. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) said: "[Godwits] were accounted the daintiest dish in England and I think, for the bignesse, of the biggest price."
Population:
UK breeding:
54-57 pairs of the limosa 'Eurasian' subspecies, and 7-9 pairs of the islandica subspecies
UK wintering:
44,000 birds from the Icelandic population
UK passage:
12,400 birds
Europe:
99-140,000 pairs
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The wood sandpiper is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae.
Scientific name: Tringa glareola
Everyone is welcome at Brody's place. All you need is a pair of waders and a footstool. This one is for you Brody! It was so great to get to see you and shoot with you this weekend.
A medium sized colorful duck that many photographers here love to shoot. They are winter visitors and seen in shallow lakes around the city and countryside. They are often seen in 100's in good times like this season. These ducks are hunted by Falcons and other raptors and in the lake I visit, we sighted one of these ducks killed and half eaten by a Peregrine Falcon.
Shot this in a lake on the edge of the city last season which hosted 100's of these ducks and a variety of other waders. The place was bustling with activity and was great for bird photography. After a pack of feral dogs came to the other bank, the birds flew towards me giving me this shot. They took a wide curve and landed pretty far away.
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…frequently running energetically and using the shadow of its wings to reduce glare on the water once it is in position to spear a fish; the result is a fascinating dance..😎😎
Holkham Beaxh, Norfolk. One while waiting for the Shorelark to reappear, these birds were totally unfazed about people being around.
A group of mixed waders taking off from the shore at Harrison Drive. Six of the birds are turnstone, two are sanderling (e.g. the rightmost bird) and one (small bird top centre) is a dunlin - the only dunlin I saw all day.
As extraordinary shots go, this one is probably my luckiest yet. This is a black-winged stilt - in flight - as it skimmed across the water in front of me... Blimey! Did that really happen?
The beautiful Pied Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta - is a wading bird in the same family as the Stilt. Although a wader, it has webbed feet so is also quite happy swimming as it looks for food which it does be sweeping its long upcurved bill from side to side looking for aquatic insects, crustaceans, worms and other small creatures. Living throughout temperate Europe and Western and Central Asia, they prefer brackish or saline wetlands, estuaries and other such areas where insect life is prevalent but they will also feed on exposed mudflats. The bird is the emblem of the RSPB. Seen from a hide at Martin Mere Wetlands.
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