Birds of the World


Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa fedoa) Range: NA: subarctic to temperate grassland of Nearctic: disjunctly c Alaska Pen.; sc Canada to nc USA; and w James Bay area (n Ontario, ec Canada) Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Northern migrant.


Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica) Range: NA: patchily in low Arctic bogs near treeline, w Alaska to c Canada: w, sc Alaska, n and sc NWT, sw shores of Hudson Bay in n Manitoba and n Ontario (ec Canada) La Costa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photograph by Gustavo Masuzzo © All Rights Reserved.


Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica) Range: NA: patchily in low Arctic bogs near treeline, w Alaska to c Canada: w, sc Alaska, n and sc NWT, sw shores of Hudson Bay in n Manitoba and n Ontario (ec Canada) Kogarah Bay, Sydney, Australia Non-breeding plumage.
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Migrates from northern Canada and Alaska to the southern half or South America, and a vagrant in Europe and Australia. Darker than Marbled Godwit.

Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) Near Threatened
Range: PAL: patchily in low Arctic tundra of n Palearctic: far n Scandinavia to Chukotskiy and Anadyr pens. (ne Russia) and n, w Alaska

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Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) Near Threatened Range: PAL: widespread in subarctic and temperate wet grassland: Iceland, Faroe Is., British Is., Scandinavia s to sw France, e through nw Russia, n Kazakhstan, n Mongolia e to Chukotskiy Pen., Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Amurland (e Russia) and Inner Mongolia (ne China) Ireland
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Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) Near Threatened Range: PAL: widespread in subarctic and temperate wet grassland: Iceland, Faroe Is., British Is., Scandinavia s to sw France, e through nw Russia, n Kazakhstan, n Mongolia e to Chukotskiy Pen., Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Amurland (e Russia) and Inner Mongolia (ne China) Fljótshlíð, Iceland
Photograph by Svenni and his Icelandic birds © All Rights Reserved.