Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica on coastal mudflats Norfolk Winter

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A long-billed, long-legged wading bird which visits UK shores for the winter. Most usually seen in its grey-brown winter plumage, birds in spring may show their full rich chestnut breeding plumage. In flight it shows a white patch stretching from the rump up the back, narrowing to a point. It breeds in the Arctic of Scandinavia and Siberia and hundreds of thousands of them pass through the UK, on their way further south, or stop off here for the winter. Largest numbers occur on large estuaries - the Wash, Thames, Ribble, Dee, Humber, Solway and Forth.

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Size: 4896px × 3264px
Location: Norfolk England UK
Photo credit: © Ernie Janes / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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