Bar-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit
Limosa lapponica

Ocean Beach, San Diego County, California

4 September 2000

This bird was found by John Martin on Monday, 4 September 2000. These pictures were taken by David Blue with a Kodak DC290 digital camera (with a 115mm lens). For two of the pictures, the camera was hand held to a Kowa Prominar tsn-4 spotting scope with a 20-60x eyepiece (at the 20 power setting).

There is some controversy about the sex of this bird. Is it a faded male, or a female? What do you think?

For size comparison

Inflight showing underwing converts and barred uppertail coverts

Inflight showing lighter uppertail coverts

Side by side comparison with Marbled Godwit

Frontal shot through the scope

Shot of the back from above

Please send comments to David Blue