{"id":1696188,"date":"2017-10-02T22:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=1696188"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:23:36","slug":"help-required-with-id-of-bar-tailed-and-black-tailed-godwits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/help-required-with-id-of-bar-tailed-and-black-tailed-godwits\/","title":{"rendered":"Help required with ID of Bar-tailed and Black-tailed Godwits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two birds that can be a cause confusion when visiting the local coastal marshes in Norfolk are the Bar and Black-tailed Godwit’s. At RSPB Titchwell both species are regularly seen in winter. However when feeding they can be quite tricky to identify. Both are extremely attractive birds when seen in their summer plumage, but more drab during winter which is part of the problem.<\/p>\n

When seen in flight they should straightforward to identify with very distinctive tail and wing markings. The Black-tailed having a bold black and white stripe on each wing, as well as a black and white tail. Whilst the Bar-tailed have the barred tail and lack any distinctive patterning on the wings.<\/p>\n

However when on the ground at certain times of the year when their plumage is changing they can be more difficult. Below are a series of images taken over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

Can anyone help with ID ? Many thanks in anticipation<\/p>\n

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No 1. Location indicates Bar-tailed but bill suggest Black-tailed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No 2. Location indicates Bar-tailed and curved bill seems to confirm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No 3. Location on fresh water Marsh indicates Black-tailed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No 4. Black -tailed Godwit in winter plumage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No 5. Bar -tailed Godwit taken in early spring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No 6. Black -tailed Godwit in winter plumage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Two birds that can be a cause confusion when visiting the local coastal marshes in Norfolk are the Bar and Black-tailed Godwit’s. At RSPB Titchwell both species are regularly seen in winter. However when feeding they can be quite tricky to identify. Both are extremely attractive birds when seen in their summer plumage, but more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1942,"featured_media":2196974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bar-tailed-Godwit.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1629,700],"class_list":["post-1696188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-black-tailed-godwit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}