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Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
Photographer :	© Choy Wai Mun
Location :	Tanjung Tokong, Penang, Malaysia
Date :	4 October 2008
Equipment :	Nikon D40X + Sigma 150-500mm
Alt. Common Name :	Bartailed Godwit, Pacific Godwit, White-rumped Godwit
Bird Family :	Tringinae - Godwits, curlews, shanks, sandpipers, tattlers, turnstones, dowitchers, knots,stints, dunlin, ruff, & phalaropes
Bird Group :	CICONIIFORMES
Red Data Status :	Unspecified
Remarks :	Note that the natural colour of the bill is masked by a layer of black mud.
Taxonomic Notes :

Select images of the species : 1. Bar-tailed Godwit 2. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult in breeding plumage 3. Bar-tailed Godwit >> In flight 4. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Non-breeding 5. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult non-breeding 6. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult male coming into breeding plumage 7. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult male in breeding plumage 8. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult female 9. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult male in breeding plumage 10. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Non-breeding adult in flight 11. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Non-breeding adult in flight 12. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult moulting into non-breeding plumage 13. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult non-breeding 14. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult non-breeding 15. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Juvenile 16. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Juvenile in flight from above 17. Bar-tailed Godwit >> In flight 18. Bar-tailed Godwit >> In flight 19. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Non-breeding 20. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Juvenile/1st winter 21. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Juvenile/1st winter 22. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult 23. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult 24. Bar-tailed Godwit >> Adult non-breeding 25. Bar-tailed Godwit