Bar-tailed godwit

Limosa lapponica
Sandpipers (Scolopacidae)

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A brown wader with a black tipped long red beak and dark legs. In winter plumage the belly is light and the back brown marked. In summer plumage the body is rust brown with brown/rust brown marked wings. The ♀ is often paler and more yellow than red. 
While flying the legs barely extend past the tail, the white on the back is arrow-shaped to halfway up the back. The upper side of wings with lighter (not white) markings and a white under surface. 

Searches in the mud with its long beak for bugs, often together with other waders. They roost in groups.

⇔ l. 33-42 cm

A migratory bird breeding north.

LA:
≈ The LIMOSA LIMOSA (Godwit) will show more leg behind the tail in flight and has no white arrow-shaped back marking. 
≈ The NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS (Curlew) has a curved beak.

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