Black-tailed Godwit

Name: Black-tailed Godwit

Scientific name: Limosa limosa

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 60

What are nature stars?

About: A large, tall, elegant wader about 40cm long. During the spring and summer, adults have a greyish back, white belly and brick-orange head, neck and chest. In the winter they are grey above and white below. Black-tailed Godwits have a very long straight bi

How to identify: When they fly, Black-tailed Godwits have a black tail, square white rump and broad white wing bars, with their feet sticking out well beyond their tail. Taller than Bar-tailed Godwit.

Where: A rare breeding bird of wet grasslands in East Anglia, Kent and north west England. Fairly common on migration at wetlands throughout the country. Winters on estuaries along the south coast.

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 40
• Agility: 50
• Rarity: 50
• Cute factor: 40
• Traveller: 80

Fantastic fact: British breeding birds winter in Africa, whilst the birds that spend their winters on the south coast nest in Iceland.

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc