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Bar tailed Godwit🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesScolopacidae
Birds

🐦Bar-tailed Godwit

Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758)

斑尾塍鹬（学名：Limosa lapponica）又名斑尾鹬，为鹬科塍鹬属的鸟类。该物种的模式产地在瑞典。 斑尾鷸是一種大型且遷徙性強的涉禽，主要在沿海泥灘和河口覓食多毛蟲和貝類。牠具有鮮紅色的繁殖羽，長腿和向上翹的長喙。斑尾鷸在北極海岸和苔原繁殖，範圍從斯堪的納維亞到阿拉斯加，冬季則在澳大利亞和紐西蘭的溫帶和熱帶地區的海岸過冬。亞種Limosa lapponica baueri從阿拉斯加橫跨太平洋到紐西蘭的遷徙是已知鳥類中最長的不間斷飛行，也是所有動物中不進食的最長旅程。該亞種的往返遷徙距離超過 29,000 km（18,020 mi）

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.29 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
34 years
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Everything we know about the Bar-tailed Godwit

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.29 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male313 kgWikidataQ18864
  • Female354 kgWikidataQ18864

Figures vary

  • 0.32 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.21 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
34 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
21 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 4
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bar-tailed Godwit yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyScolopacidae
  6. ›genusLimosa
  7. ›speciesLimosa lapponica
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyScolopacidae
  4. genusLimosa
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyScolopacidae
  11. genusLimosa
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myrspov (sv), tètol cuabarrat (ca), břehouš rudý (cs), Lille kobbersneppe (da), Pfuhlschepfe (de), Limosa lapponica (es) … and 26 more languages
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