Black-Tailed Godwit

Black-Tailed Godwit is a large, long-legged, long-billed shorebird first described by Linnaeus in 1758. There are four subspecies, all with an orange head, neck and chest in breeding plumage, a dull grey-brown winter plumage and a distinctive black-and-white wing bar at all times. It breeds from Iceland through Europe and central Asia and winters as far apart as the Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe and West Africa (Wikipedia, general species account). (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is more likely than the similar bar-tailed godwit to be found inland and on freshwater (Wikipedia, general species account). L. l. bohaii – Zhu, Piersma, Verkuil & Conklin, 2020: assumed to breed in Russian Far East. A study of black-tailed godwits in the Netherlands found a mortality rate of 37.6% in the first year of life, 32% in the second year, and 36.9% thereafter. Black-tailed godwits have a discontinuous breeding range stretching from Iceland to the far east of Russia. (Wikipedia, general species account).