Bar-tailed Godwit

(Limosa lapponica)


Example 1

Date: 19 june 2001
Origin: Dead bird on beach; (dead for several weeks already)
Location: Schiermonnikoog, NL
Age and sex: Adult
Feathers: Rightwing (primaries and secundaries) | Greater primary coverts | Greater coverts | Greater under primary coverts | Greater underwing coverts

Example 2

Date: 18 march 1989
Origin: Found dead
Location: Schorren, Texel, NL
Age and sex: Adult
Feathers: Tailfeathers

Example 3

Date: 26 october1988
Origin: Victim of barbed wire (Bird was ringed 6111160 Sweden)
Location: Eendrachtspolder, Texel, NL
Age and sex: First winter plumage
Feathers: Tailfeathers

Example 4

Date: january 1992
Origin:  
Location: Zeeland, NL
Age and sex: Female, first winter plumage
Feathers: Tailfeathers

Example 5

Date: 16 january 1987
Origin:  
Location: Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
Age and sex: Adult male
Feathers: Tailfeathers

Example 6

Date: 26 may 1993
Origin: Victim of power line 
Location: Hellegatsplaten, Krammer-Volkerak, NL
Age and sex:
Feathers: Tailfeathers