This Bird Eats Itself to Survive

This Bird Eats Itself to Survive

Punakuiri • Myrspov • Bar-tailed Godwit
(Limosa lapponica)
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#Limosalapponica
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Thanks or blame to @loren and @timdesuyo for getting this started and lodging the mind-worm!
https://ebird.org/species/batgod
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#ShortSkirtLongJacket
4/4
Gangly wader with a long bicolored bill. Breeding plumage is dark brick-red below (male) or pale orangey (female); nonbreeding plumage is overall gray-brown with white belly; compare to Black-tailed Godwit. In flight shows rather plain upperwings with only a faint whitish wing stripe; white rump and finely barred tail. Mainly coastal away from tundra breeding grounds. Often in flocks feeding on mudflats and in brackish coastal lagoons, roosting in adjacent freshwater habitats. Feeds by probing its long bill into the mud.
#BarTailedGodwit acts as if it were a duck...
Wading through the mudflats to get a coffee:
#BarTailedGodwit.