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Birds on UK freshwater margins and marshes: Black-tailed Godwit

Ashley Crombet-Beolens - Black-tailed Godwit
http://www.beolens.co.uk/digiscoping/galleries/Black-tailed_godwit/Black-tailed%20godwit%2025-09-2004.htm
Increase your understanding of the black-tailed godwit with this side-profile colour photograph of bird on water. Offers location, date, and technical data for photographers.
ARKive - Black-tailed Godwit
http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Limosa_limosa/more_info.html
Check out bird with a 70 cm wingspan and has been included on the UK Birds of Conservation Concern Red List. Describes range, habitat, biology, and threats.
ARKive - Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa
http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Limosa_limosa/more_still_images.html
Research wader that was lost to Britain in 19th century but made come back. Series of fourteen images of bird with winter and summer plumage, preening, and wading
Ashley Crombet-Beolens - Black-tailed Godwit
http://www.beolens.co.uk/digiscoping/galleries/Black-tailed_godwit/
Download colour photograph of the black-tailed godwit feeding with long beak specially designed for sifting through mud and gravel.
BBC: Wales Nature - Black-tailed Godwits
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/nature/sites/wildlife/pages/black_tailed_godwits.shtml
Informs of important wintering ground in UK and reveals numbers. Also lists other locations to sight the black-tailed godwit and shows colour image.
Isle of Man Birding - Black-tailed Godwit
http://www.homepages.mcb.net/wormwell/pages/black_tailed_godwit.htm
Peruse map of island in the Irish Sea and discover exactly where the illusive black-tailed godwit has been seen. Records sightings by month and offers eight colour images.
Kenya Birds - Black-tailed Godwit
http://www.kenyabirds.org.uk/blackwit.htm
Appreciate wader that can be sighted across much of Eurasia but winters in British Isles. See large colour photograph and read about habitat and eating habits.
Peterborough Bird Club: Annual Report - Black-tailed Godwit
http://pbc.codehog.co.uk/report/godwit_blacktailed.html
Publishes the incidence of sightings of the black-tailed godwit around Peterborough, UK. Details number seen, exact location, and date from 1998-2003.
Royal Society for Protection of Birds - Black-tailed Godwit
http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/b/blacktailedgodwit/
Check out big wading bird sighted along most of the UK coast-line. See colour illustrations of adult in summer and in winter, and read about diet and breeding.
Tiscali Reference - Black-tailed Godwit
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/wildlife/birds_black-tailed_godwit.html
Tap into this concise entry and learn about the physical appearance of the black-tailed godwit, changing plumage, breeding, and migration. Also view colour image.

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