Showing posts with label Limosa haemastica. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 31, 2015

HUDSONIAN GODWIT

Photographed at Lake Wollumboula, NSW December 2015

741                  HUDSONIAN GODWIT            Limosa haemastica

Australia            (584)

Found in tidal mudflats and estuaries; waterways in mangroves; salt marshes, freshwater wetlands. 37-42 cm. Range: breeds Alaska to Hudson Bay, Canada; winters in far s. S. America; some reach Nz almost annually. In Aust. summer vagrant to coastal mudflats (NSW, Vic, Tas, SA)